Well, exactly...
...If I woke up to find some pretty nurse at the side of the bed waiting to take my pulse, I don't think the reading would be much good!
I'm sure the missus would have something to say about it, too. :eek:

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Pedestrian,

when I download my Polar HRM to the computer, I can look at the raw data, and for *any* given minute I can count up how many HR readings it recorded from my heart, so it's just a case of checking my watch for the exact time, lying down, then looking out the raw data feed on the computer that records *every beat*.

You are right though, it displays a sample of the previous 5 heart beats so it's showing you a rolling average, but the raw data is there.

Interestingly, if an endurance athelete goes to the hospital, they will tell you that your are suffering or have recently suffered a heart attack or have a heart blockage; x-rays will reveal an enlarged heart, bloods will show increased muscle enzymes, ECG reveals ventricular hypertrophy and you are showing bradycardia!!

We'd best not goto hospital then! :eek: Can you elaborate further? There's a lotta stuff in there that doesn't mean a word to me, lol.

When do they tell you you've got heart problems? Surely if you go in with a broken toe they wouldn't start diagnosing you with having had heart attacks etc? Maybe I missed something

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If you enter hospital and have these test as part of their diagnosis of what your suffering, whatever that may be, you should tell them you are an endurance athelete that's all! I don't mean that when you break your leg they will go putting an ECG on you!! LOL!

Sorry didn't mean to scare-monger!

Phew! Cheers, I'll remember that

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