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Roy Gardiner
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 Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:21 am Post subject: Rest heart rate |
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Isn't it supposed to be the simplest rough measure of fitness? The lower the rate, the fitter you are?
Reason: I took mine yesterday afternoon (always lowest in the afternoon for some reason) at between 40 and 44, lowest ever. But I'm still giving it my bag of spanners impression 
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Tucker
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Its a guide, but its hardly definitive. RHR depends on about a million things, of which your fitness is but one.
Pablo Lastras's RHR is about that (remembering a very old Procycling article). Fiver says he'd beat you in a 25. |
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Roy Gardiner
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| Pablo Lastras's RHR is about that (remembering a very old Procycling article). Fiver says he'd beat you in a 25. |
Another fiver says you can't find a cyclist who wouldn't...
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