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Your resting heart rate is the heart pumping the lowest amount of blood you need because youâre not exercising. If youâre sitting or lying and youâre calm, relaxed and arenât ill, your heart rate is normally between 60 (beats per minute) and 100 (beats per minute). But a heart rate lower than 60 doesnât necessarily signal a medical problem. It could be the result of taking a drug such as a beta blocker.
The normal rate is 60â100 beats per minute. Some athletes may have slower normal rates because their heart pumps blood so efficiently. Then check your pulse without counting to get a feel of what a normal rate is so that if you donât have a watch when you need it, you can discern when itâs beating way too fast.irst, when the rateâs that fast, the heart canât efficiently empty the blood from its chambers. Second, those chambersâ pumping rhythms can get out of sync. (Normally your atria pump blood to your ventricles, which pump it out milliseconds later. You can hear that when you listen through a stethoscope. Tadump, tadump.