Your resting heart rate is the number of times your heart beats per minute while your body is at rest – when you're sitting or lying down, having not engaged in much physical ac ...

The beat is intensifying. Every new electronic device these days – from your phone to your watch to your ring – seems to want ...

In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of the Day, a cardiologist explains why a lower resting heart rate can be a good sign of heart ...

You’re familiar with the feeling of your heart pounding in your chest, your blood pulsing through your veins with increasing ...

Your pulse rate tells a lot about your physical and mental health. While a normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute, anything over or under this implies all is not ...

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If you’ve ever bolted awake from a nightmare with your heart beating like a frenzied drum, you already know that sleep and rest are not the same. Which is why it should make sense that neither are ...

While some measures of physical fitness such as athletic ability and one's strength or stamina may be difficult to ascertain right away, others are more obvious. One's resting heart rate, for instance ...

Whether due to stress or an intense cardio workout, most of us have felt our heart racing from time to time. A rise in your heart rate can be perfectly normal given outside circumstances. However, ...

What we physicians tell patients should be based on evidence, but that doesn’t always happen. A good example is when patients ask what their pulse rate should be and we tell patients between 60 and ...

Heart rate variability is one of the main things your smartwatch or fitness tracker measures. Here's what it means.