Playing with my pulse

I have been sitting here this morning playing with my pulse. :-) This might sound funny, but I have been marvelling lately at the wonders of having a resting heart rate in the low 50's.

This is what it should be of course, but for some reason I've been having flashbacks lately to my high school days where the horrible P.E. teacher (lol) made us record our pulse every term.

Even back then, I knew it wasn't GOOD to have a resting heart rate in the 80's!!! Weirdly enough, the P.E. dude never said anything to me about it. You'd think that since he was going to all that trouble testing us, he would at least have had a quiet word at some point to a student who clearly needed to do something about it? (Or at least to their parents??)

Yes, I was one of those unhealthy, overweight, and 100% sedentary teenagers who would celebrate madly if any test came back with a pulse in the 70's ... 78 was seriously good stuff, LOL. :-)

Back then, over a decade ago now, I never dreamed that I could get my pulse down into the 50's. How silly, huh? It seems totally bizarre now to think that 86 was "normal" and 70 ... well, 70 was something to aspire to!!