Ralph's Health

Topendsports seems to have some useful information on measuring and assessing your resting heart rate. I watched mine for a while while sat reading and it moved around between 65 and 67. This puts me in the Above average to Good category in the charts on the Web site. I'll try taking a reading tomorrow morning after I wake up, as it suggests in the article on the site. While I'm on the subject, Sue measured my blood pressure over the weekend, it was 119/71 which she reckons is good.

One of the objectives I set myself two weeks ago was to walk to work. It is only a 0.7 mile walk but goes up and down a steep couple of hills. Today was the first day when I've walked in while it was raining. I decided to measure my peak heart rate, which got to abuot 145bpm at the top of Grimshaw Lane, from a heart rate of around 80bpm when I left the house. I'll post up the data later if I remember. So, I've currently got my heart rate monitor on, while I'm sat typing this my heart rate is 67bpm, which I think is pretty reasonable for a resting rate. I'll do some reasearch on this. Yesterday I thought I was blowing my diet a bit, nothing spectacular, but the Liveseys sandwich is big, and then I had a couple of slices of the homemade aubergine and wlanut cake that Sharon brought back from Cornwall. So I was pleased to see this morning that my weight was still 87.1kg, same as yesterday. As I only did one hour of karate last night I would not expect much of a c...