My heart rate is 121/58 and my pulse is 70. Yet I am very active and I thought that I was in good cardio vascular shape. But I’ve been told by my doctor that athletes generally have numbers that are in the 40′s-50′s but mine is all the way at seventy.
What’s up? Am I just not in as good a shape as I thought?
Quite honestly it could be several factors:
1) Age- I do know that younger people tend to have more rapid heart rates then someboy older. the athletes he was telling you about, are they adults?
2) Pain- Pain can actually increase your BPM, and quite honestly I do not know anybody who trains seriously that doesn’t generally have some kind of pain they deal with.
3) Emotion- Fear, anger, anxiety, and excitment. I know at the doctors my BPM are always quite a bit higher then when I take it at home, just because I get stressed about the doctor. Try taking your own pulse when you are nice and relaxed.
4) Training that San Shou and submission wrestling instead of a good Okinawan style. 
(Before anyone crucifies me, seriously joking with number 4 in case you don’t know me)
The best time to check your vitals is when you wake up before you get out of bed. Those seem like very normal numbers, so I wouldn’t worry too much
References :
Quite honestly it could be several factors:
1) Age- I do know that younger people tend to have more rapid heart rates then someboy older. the athletes he was telling you about, are they adults?
2) Pain- Pain can actually increase your BPM, and quite honestly I do not know anybody who trains seriously that doesn’t generally have some kind of pain they deal with.
3) Emotion- Fear, anger, anxiety, and excitment. I know at the doctors my BPM are always quite a bit higher then when I take it at home, just because I get stressed about the doctor. Try taking your own pulse when you are nice and relaxed.
4) Training that San Shou and submission wrestling instead of a good Okinawan style.
(Before anyone crucifies me, seriously joking with number 4 in case you don’t know me)
References :
18 years of training and some quick research.