pulse rate during exercise!

who has a greater pulse rate during exercise? an athlete or non athlete? why?

[caregiver222]

The answer is you require a blood pressure device. The ideal answer depends upon what your blood pressure is with the higher heart rate. You want to use the highest rate that will not result in an abnormally high blood pressure.

[live4fitness]

My experience is, I recently went in for a stress test and they wanted my heart rate at 150  or above. It took a while to get there due to the fact I work out.

[caregiver222]

Generally athletes have lower pulse rates, but being an athlete is a "package". Athletes are less likely to smoke, have more nutritious diets, and have more resilient blood vessels and better microcirculation. That has been some evidence that repeated excercise and oxygen demald stimulated production of additional red blood cells, raising the hematocrit by a point or two, thus requireing a lower heart rate for the same P02 being sensed by the carotid body sensors.

[ellis1601]

I was wondering why our pulse rates speed up when we have drank caffeine?
But to answer your question, hypxypoxia, a non athlete has a greater pulse rate when they exercise unless they are fitter then the actual athlete!! The lower the pulse rate, when you exercise, the fitter you are. Hope this helps!!