Thu, Nov-12-09, 15:30
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Plan: was Atkins now PāNu
Stats: 292.5/195/160
BF:
Progress: 74%
Location: Canada
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Originally Posted by tiredangel
However, many people on low carb have lower heart rates even though they're pretty sedentary.
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Lower than what? Lower than 60bpm (avg. resting heart rate is considered between 60bpm and 90bpm) just with diet alone? Or lower than before they began low-carb and before they lost weight?
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Originally Posted by tiredangel
I certainly am not exercising these days except for a few yoga stretches and push ups when I think about it, yet my heartrate is about 60, down from the 90 it was when I ate high carb.
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60 is considered average, not low. Yes, it is good to be lower than higher, but you are still in the normal range. When you switched your diet from high-carb to low-carb did you also experience your significant weight loss? I'm not going to poo-poo low-carb, obviously, but I do think that significant weight loss, even if one was doing low-fat/high-carb, might lower most people's resting heart rate at almost the same rate.
I can't remember reading about people obtaining a resting heart rate of, let's say, 47 (since that's mine currently), with just diet and weight loss alone. Is there somewhere someone can point me to regarding this? For sure my heart rate dropped by losing 100lbs, but it was still over 60, only running pushed it below 50.
And just to second the comment that a low resting heart rate can be a sign of ill-health as well so if one does have a low resting heart rate but also gets easily winded when doing some form of exercise (even walking up stairs), then it is a sign something else is going on and should be checked out.
Last edited by brpssm : Thu, Nov-12-09 at 15:41.
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