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Resting heart rate

Meaning in sports & fitness, with examples

nounCommon term

In sports & fitness, resting heart rate means: The number of heartbeats per minute when your body is calm, relaxed, and not exercising.

In Turkish: dinlenik kalp atış hızı

How it is used

Used in health and endurance training. Athletes often track resting heart rate in the morning to notice fitness changes, fatigue, or unusual stress.

Example sentences

  1. My resting heart rate was higher than usual this week, so I replaced the hard run with an easy bike session.

    Here the term is used as a monitoring number that may suggest fatigue, stress, or reduced recovery.

  2. The sports scientist asked us to record resting heart rate each morning during the altitude camp.

    In this example, it refers to a baseline measurement taken regularly to observe adaptation during training.

Common collocations

  • measure resting heart rate
  • morning resting heart rate
  • elevated resting heart rate
  • track resting heart rate
  • heart rateThe number of times your heart beats per minute (bpm), used to measure how hard the body is working during exercise and at rest.
  • enduranceThe ability to keep up physical effort for a long time without tiring, important in sports like running, cycling, swimming and rowing.

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