His resting pulse rate is in the 40's.
He is 65 years old and has a resting pulse rate of 52.
Many clinical tests of fitness are based on resting pulse rates, response to exercise and return after exercise.
On Sunday evenings, we'd have to email Huw our results, including weight, resting pulse and sleep pattern, get feedback, and then receive a new week's programme.
Stocky, intense, a stickler, he was armor-plated in fitness — his resting pulse rate, at one point, was a whalelike twenty-eight.
Researchers have found that a resting pulse at the upper end of "normal" may indicate a higher risk of stroke and heart disease.
Borg, with a resting pulse rate of 35 and blood pressure of 70 over 30, walked on court in the certain knowledge that he would never tire - or at least, not before his opponent did.
He said he has a resting pulse of 40, has maintained his weight at about 160 pounds for the last 30 years and has the same suit size to prove it.
With such a fever, here in New York we would expect a pulse around 100! In the morning, I examined some of the Turkish soldiers and found resting pulse rates in the 50s.
It would be lovely to know what this frowning menace thinks of Jason "The Somnambulist" Dufner who, despite subsisting on a diet of beef, cake and chewing tobacco has, if his heavy-lidded insouciance is any guide, a resting pulse of 12.
The result is that a marathon runner will have a resting pulse rate of around 30 beats a minute, compared with, say, 72 for a non-athlete, who would simply not have the energy to run 26 miles (42km) competitively.In other words, as the gambling metaphor has it, there are horses for courses.
