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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.
The more fit you are, the faster the recovery. Your heart rate drops most sharply in the first minute after you stop exercising; it should then fall about 20 beats a minuteâa drop of less than 12 beats a minute is considered abnormal. This ârecovery heart rateâ is measured as part of an exercise stress test.