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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.
According to the American Heart Association, a normal resting heart rate is 60 to 80 beats a minute, or about one beat per second. Well-trained athletes sometimes have resting heart rates as low as 40 beats per minute, but for those who exercise only casually or not at all, a heart rate this low is not normal. It is best to take your heart rate before you get out of bed after a night of sound sleep.