The resting heart rate is a good indicator of your overall health and cardiovascular health.

What is the resting Heart rate?
This is an important chart to watch because it shows the stress your body is under while at rest. If for some reason your average jumps considerably you may want to see a doctor. As an example of the Fitbit community forums, one woman went to see her doctor after seeing a 10 point increase in her beats per minute. She found out she was pregnant.
How to lower your Resting Heart Rate?
There are a lot of factors involved in lowering your heart rate including lowering your stress levels can help to lower cortisol and exercise and diet can help increase blood flow & oxygen to the cells so the heart does not have to work so hard.
Meditation & using the relax app can help reduce stress and help increase the quality of sleep time which in turn will help lower cortisol.
Going to bed on an empty stomach is an easy way to have a better night\’s sleep and have more energy the next day.
Exercise should not only be thought of in terms of weight loss but also moving all your muscles in turn moving blood to all the cells to help move fresh nutrients to the cells and remove the waste.
Everyone is different and as we get older and the seasons change you should also rethink your exercise and diet plan of action. As we get older we need more protein to fix stuff breaking down and build muscle. As it gets colder start doing more exercise routines inside or even find an indoor walking track. These are just a few ideas but I think you get the drift.
How is the Resting Heart Rate determined?
Fitbit looks at the heartbeats during sleep and during the day when there is no activity or steps and figures out an average.
Monthly Comparison Charts
It looks like my resting heart rate lands between the mid-50s and mid-60s. My personal goal is to get all the scores below 60.
Resting Heart Rate For October
A nice increase from September
September 2021 Resting Heart Rate

This is a healthy range. There has been a drop in the numbers because of HIIT and breathing meditation.
January 2021

January and Feburay are months we don’t get out side much so I’m trying to spend some time in the weight room and HIIT. but it’ doen’t seem to show up on the resting heard rate chart.
December 2020 Resting Heart Rate

I’ve started to increase resistant exercises including some HIIT workouts and resting heart rate is solid.
October Resting Heart Rate

Measure your resting heart rate with the Fitbit watch.
Exercise levels are lower and forgot to use the Relax App on the watch way too many times so now I have a strong commitment to getting in a couple of HIIT routines each week.
September Resting Heart Rate

Resting heart rate is over all lower on average. Reasons could include more meditation practice.
Goals for October
- Use the breath app on the Fitbit watch everyday.
- Start a bedtime routine.
Resting Heart Rate for July 2020

Starting using the relax exercise on the watch and starting getting some good results.
Heart Rate at Rest for April 2020

This chart measures heart rate at rest for April 2020. The high point is a point higher than normal and the low point is about 3 points higher. I try to cut down on the caffeine for May and June.
Heart Rate at Rest for July 2019

Resting heart rate is still in the same range 55 to 62. Started the month off pretty good and then changed the morning routines to include coffee shops towards the end of the month. I have a couple of new books on meditation that include meditation exercises that will keep me busy long enough to strengthen a good morning practice.
Heart Rate at Rest for June 2018

Fitbit Resting Heart Rate has been fairly level between 55 and 60 heart beats per minute.
Heart Rate at Rest for May 2018
This is my favorite chart.
It directly shows how hard the heart has to work while resting if it’s over a 100 I would go see a doctor just to be sure there’s nothing seriously wrong. If there’s something blocking the blood flow or if there’s part of your body that needs more blood it will show up here.
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