Comment by gcanyon
21 hours ago
N=1, but I started rowing (indoor, on an erg) an hour a day -- not hard, generally 120-140 bpm -- every day starting February 28, after rowing inconsistently for a year or more before that. My resting (not sleep) pulse has dropped by 10% over the past ~7 weeks, from 60 to 54.
General advice: citing absolute HR numbers is pretty meaningless for a broad audience, because they are not intepretable. Express them as percentages of your current max HR to be meaningful to others.
As I said, N=1 so the post was meaningless before I said another word :-)
For your benefit: my max is somewhere around 175, maybe 180, which is high for my age.
I'm also unusual in that even my max heart rate doesn't lead to lactic acid buildup, for what it's worth.