Resting Heart Rate Increase (Charge HR)

[Nicole_Cross]

Does anyone know why this could be happening? For the past few months, my resting heart rate has consistently been between 69-72. Now for some reason it is increasing daily, and I have not changed my routine at all. (I workout 4-5 times per week; average 13-14,000 steps per day) Typically your resting heart rate is supposed to decrease when you're more active. I know my Fitbit is not always going to be 100% accurate for measuring things like this, but I'm still curious. Any thoughts?

[Rams160]

My resting heart rate does the same with alcohol, but a late evening meal especially a large meal also works the heart more digesting the food through the night.

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[Parkersspace]

my resting Heartrate went from 52 ish to 67 last November when i was admitted to hospital with pneumonia from an unknown source.  My pnuemonia cleared but has impacts on you for some time as they warned me and my resting heart rate did not return to the 50's until February but slowly lowered over that time.  I am very athletic and teach skiing all winter 7 days a week, 7 hours a day, and it still took that long to come back in to normal but fortunately my oxygen levels in my blood did return to closer to normal by December 8 and then better by Feb when the resting rate became normal again.  A large increase very likely can indicate several things, from illness to pregnancy, hormone imbalances etc and would be wise to be checked out.  If you have one use a finger oximeter to check your blood oxygen levels would also be wise in conjunction with that kind of climb.  I did not follow to see if you discovered the reason for the increase ).

[Davesin]

Yes, my sleeping heart rate is much higher if I eat late in the evening... It hardly drops when i go to sleep and then gradually drops down to normal sleep rate over 4-6 hours. 

That might show that eating large meals in the late evening is not the healthiest option?

[amrhq]

when you start or return back to your cardio or when you start playing weights, the Resting HR will increase for almost 30-45 day.

after this it will decreases fast but you should keep the sport on.

[KathKR]

Hi Amrhq

Due to the COVID restrictions I have been working from home, my activity has reduced in the past year, I used to aim for 10,000 Steps a Day but I have only been averaging just over 5118 Steps per month ☹️

I have signed up to raise funds for Cancer Research 10,000.00 Steps per Day for the month of March

I have completed 10,000 Steps for the past 4 days but my Resting Heart Rate has jumped up from 78 bpm to 84 bpm, I am hoping it will settle in a few days, once my body gets used to the normal activity again.

Thank you for posting your comment, this has made me less worried  

[shipo]

@KathKR, your new exercise routine may, or may not be responsible for the bump in your RHR, my guess is the latter.  The thing is, there are so many variables which can influence your rate it is almost impossible to attribute a short-term spike (or decline) to any one thing.  Two weeks ago my RHR spiked upwards of 8 bpm (which for me is a lot); what caused it?  Heck, I don't know, I had a tooth worked on the day before, my dentist was going to simply replace an old filling, but when she got in there she said, "Uh-oh", apparently the tooth had cracked and she needed to prep it for a crown instead.  Then there were work related stresses during the run-up to the delivery of a large project, and then I ramped up my running, and then my wife had a blow-up with a family member, and on, and on, and on.  Which was the cause of my spike?  Was it any one thing?  Was it the confluence of events?  No way to tell.

The good news is, the spike dropped almost as fast as it went up and for the last couple of days my heart rate has levelled off a point below where it was before the spike.  Long story short, hang in there, things will normalize.