Re: What's your heart rate?
I got about 100 resting.
But I do have a known heart condition so.. Hmms.
Re: What's your heart rate?
Re: What's your heart rate?
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Eris
It should also be clarified the difference between heart sound and pulse. When the heart beats, it makes the -sound- dun-dun, as it shuffles blood around it's chambers and so on. But that isn't what you're feeling, you're feeling the heart's pulse. Which is a single beat. ... so don't count pairs of heartbeats thinking they're one beat.
Umm...that's almost true, but its also very much irrelevant.
Heart sounds (the sound is technically "lub-dub", not "dun-dun"), as the name suggests, are the sounds that your heart makes with EACH beat. The sounds do not represent a beat on their own. Each "lub-dub" is ONE heartbeat, not two.
Of course, this is irrelevant to measuring one's pulse since one cannot feel the "dub". Only the systolic pressure (the "lub") can be felt via palpation, since pressure waves from cardiac systole is what is causing the artery walls to become palpable in the first place. You can't feel the diastolic pressure by palpation no matter what you do (hell, even if you put your hand directly over your chest, you are going to have difficulty feeling it). So when you are taking your pulse, you can't feel a "lub-dub", so it doesn't matter.
Re: What's your heart rate?
I got 34, so 68 BPM. Tip: To lower your heart rate, hold your breath.
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wolfgirl90
Umm...that's almost true, but its also very much irrelevant.
Heart sounds (the sound is technically "lub-dub", not "dun-dun"), as the name suggests, are the sounds that your heart makes with EACH beat. The sounds do not represent a beat on their own. Each "lub-dub" is ONE heartbeat, not two.
Of course, this is irrelevant to measuring one's pulse since one cannot feel the "dub". Only the systolic pressure (the "lub") can be felt via palpation, since pressure waves from cardiac systole is what is causing the artery walls to become palpable in the first place. You can't feel the diastolic pressure by palpation no matter what you do (hell, even if you put your hand directly over your chest, you are going to have difficulty feeling it). So when you are taking your pulse, you can't feel a "lub-dub", so it doesn't matter.
Well, that's just what I was saying, with a different onomatopoetic description of the sound and less of technical detail.
Re: What's your heart rate?
62 resting, i have no idea what it is active.
Re: What's your heart rate?
Mine was....94? I haven't done anything today, so I'm not sure why it's so fast.
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Mine used to be somewhat lower, but it's now in the 60-65 range since I've been getting out of shape lately. It's pretty annoying how fast that starts happening.
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Mine was....94? I haven't done anything today, so I'm not sure why it's so fast.
As long as you haven't performed any physically demanding and/or stressful activity within ~15 minutes before the measurement it shouldn't affect the result.
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Eris
Well, that's just what I was saying, with a different onomatopoetic description of the sound and less of technical detail.
Yeah, my nerd is showing. Have been taking anatomy too long to tone it down.:p
I was merely pointing out that your mention of heart sounds is a little irrelevant since if one is counting their heart rate via palpation (which would be the only other way that they are measuring it unless someone has a stethoscope), they are not going to feel "lub-dub", "lub-dub" and make the mistake of counting twice.