wrong heart rate!!

[spualj13]

My resting heart rate is around 67 and whenever I try to do mild exercise it jumps to about 180bpm. But I don't feel exhausted or anything and on the contrary I feel very relaxed. This has been happening for the past 10 years and I have been active all that while. I have noticed this phenomena on all treadmills I have ever used and wireless heart rate monitors. When I do take a manual pulse counting it has always been much lower than the actual reading.

Last week, I brought a blood pressure meter and took the reading while running fairly hard. It showed a heart rate  
of 144bpm while the treadmill continued to show 195bpm. Manual reading also showed ~140bpm. What should I believe? Is it that there are extra pulses that doesn't get caught by the latter or my heart beat if faint enough that the
heart rate monitors giving me a wrong reading? Pl. give me a suggestion as to what my next step should be?

Thanks
Paul  

[ParamedFlorena]

Hi Paul!

I can't describe your phenomena there, but I've taught to not trust anything else but the manual pulse reading. Now my resting pulse is usually between 50 and 60 (with psychological stress, it's not much different) and I can never really get it above 140 unless I walk into a room filled with really scary stuff. I can for no work in the world get it above 140.

Well exercised people do have a higher maxpulse? At least a better filling of the heart and better circulation all over. I feel like a perfect clockwork when I work out and come to my higher pulses. I work out 4x4 - 4 minutes hard work, slowing down in 4 cycles. Great way.

Have you checked it up towards other pulse-rate reading machines, to strengthen the theory about faulty readings by the threadmill?

Florena