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Your resting heart rate is the heart pumping the lowest amount of blood you need because youâre not exercising. If youâre sitting or lying and youâre calm, relaxed and arenât ill, your heart rate is normally between 60 (beats per minute) and 100 (beats per minute). But a heart rate lower than 60 doesnât necessarily signal a medical problem. It could be the result of taking a drug such as a beta blocker.
A fast heart rate is called tachycardia. The definition of too fast usually depends on the person's age and physical activity. A newborn has tachycardia if the resting rate is more than 160 beats per minute. A teenager is considered to have tachycardia if the resting heart rate is more than 90 beats per minute. A teenager may have a normal heart rate of up to 200 beats per minute during exercise.