Tales From a Man With a Low Resting Heart Rate

Being that we currently live in a nightmarish hellscape, be it the “government”, CoronaVirus, global warming, stock market plummeting, just all types of bad stuff, I’m trying to be more upbeat lately. It’s hard, and all of this is a real problem, but if I sit here and dwell on it, I’ll go crazy. I have enough anxiety as it is. So, in the meantime I’m not going on any planes, no cruises, not going out of the country and I’m cleaning more now than I usually do, and I clean a lot. My wife, my folks and RD can back me up on this. What I’m also trying to do is make my blogs either sports related, or just a little lighter. I’m trying to ease readers minds. Also, I’m not a scientist, I don’t work for the WHO or the CDC. I’m just trying to follow their guidelines to get through this tough time.

With all that preamble, I come to you today with a rather odd tidbit of news from my life. I’m an Apple person. I had an iPod, still do, just don’t use it anymore. I own an iPhone, of which you can hear me on when we record the pod. And I have an Apple Watch. I think Apple makes a great product, so I will continue to buy their stuff until I find something I like more.

With that being said, there’s been this wild phenomenon with my watch lately that has struck me. I use my watch simply as a watch and an exercise tracker. I don’t call or text or check my email or scores on it. It’s just for those two things. Recently I set up my watch to let me know when my heart rate is too high when I am running. I love to trail run, and sometimes those hills can be a bear, and that makes my heart rate jump. I have it set up so if my heartbeat gets about 170 a minute, it beeps, letting me know to slow down until I get it back in the 150-160 range, which is comfortable for me on hills. It works great for this. The phenomenon though, that’s been happening at night. I had to pick a rate that was “too low”. I do need to let you all know that I have an unusually low resting heart rate. My resting beat is about 45 beats a minute. I think it’s good, my wife and even doctor are always seemingly baffled by this. Even when I visit my doctor, when all your vitals are supposed to be high, it never gets over 50-55 beats a minute. I have attributed this to running, but it could be from any number of things. I mean, I am a pretty laid back guy, don’t get too worked up, unless it’s a crisis, and always try to keep a level head. But when I was setting up the “too high and too low” beats, I figured that less than 40 beats a minute was good. I never, ever thought it would get to that, even when I am sleeping.

Well, for the past 2 weeks, I have been awaken by my watch making weird buzzing noises at me, and reading the face telling me that my heart rate dropped below 40 beats a minute for a certain amount of time at 2,3 and 4 am. I am stunned by this. I don’t understand why this is happening. I don’t know if it’s a good or a bad thing. I’m sure it’s fine, but still, under 40 beats a minute for 10 plus minutes every night for nearly 2 weeks seems wild to me. I’m going to go with the good, that I do have a runners heart rate, because I’m trying to be positive, but I still think this is a weird thing. Oh well. I do think it’s cool that my watch has been showing me these things, and it shows how far we’ve grown in the technology field.

Still though, I have an unusually low heart rate. That much is sure.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast.

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