life1life1Resting heart rate is how many times your heart beats per minute when you are fully at rest. It is one of the simplest numbers a wearable produces and one of the more useful to watch over months.
The American Heart Association describes a typical adult resting heart rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute. Well-trained endurance athletes are often lower. A number inside the range is not automatically fine and a number outside it is not automatically a problem; context and trend matter.
Aerobic fitness is the big one: a stronger heart moves more blood per beat and needs fewer beats. Good sleep, hydration and recovery days also show up over time.
Illness, dehydration, heat, alcohol, stress, poor sleep, caffeine and overreaching in training all push it up for hours or days. Some medications change it in either direction.
Look at the weekly average, not the daily number. A rise of several beats that persists over a week or two, with nothing to explain it, is worth noting and worth mentioning to a clinician.
In LIFE1. LIFE1 draws resting heart rate from your wearable over weeks and months, drawn exactly as recorded, and puts it on the Before your visit page with your other readings when you want to show a physician.
Most wearables take it during sleep or in the quietest minutes of the day. Devices differ, so compare within one device.
No. LIFE1 draws it as recorded, with no thresholds. A clinician is the right person to interpret it.
Fatigue and incomplete recovery raise it. It usually settles after an easier week.
LIFE1 shows what you measured and what published guidelines say. It does not diagnose, interpret or treat. This page is general information, not medical advice.