Metric

Resting Heart Rate

What's normal for your age, what pushes it up or down, and when a change is worth a second look.

Resting heart rate is one of the oldest and most reliable signals a wearable tracks, but "normal" covers a wide range and shifts with age and fitness. A change in your resting heart rate can come from sleep, alcohol, stress, illness, or training. Here's how to read yours against people like you, and what the research connects to it moving.

The benchmark
Resting Heart Rate
Resting Heart Rate by Age: Normal Ranges Explained

The typical ranges by age and sex, and how to read yours.

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Example result
Woman ยท 72 bpm
a little above the average
from 92,457 adults
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More on Resting Heart Rate
Elevated Resting Heart Rate: More Than a Number on Your Wrist
Large population studies established that a chronically elevated resting heart rate predicts cardiovascular mortality, but the research also reveals how much of that signal is modifiable.
How to Lower Resting Heart Rate: What the Evidence Actually Found
Resting heart rate is one of the most-watched wearable metrics, and the research on what shifts it is more specific than most trackers let on.
Resting Heart Rate as a Longevity Marker
Your wearable's daily resting heart rate number is doing more predictive work than the normal-range label suggests.
Wearables and Resting Heart Rate: Overnight Accuracy
The window a device uses to calculate your resting heart rate matters as much as the sensor doing the measuring.
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