How Healthy is your Ticker??
Mine is generally in the mid 50's, which indicates my fitness level is good and my heart is also well conditioned. Some people never reach a slower rate and that's okay.
Here's how you can tell, do this with your next work out:
Find your max heart rate for you "calendar age". 220-age.
Do your cardio (at the normal level you typically do) and after 3 minutes, check your heart rate (do it for real, not what the machines tell you). See if your heart is within 80-90% of your max.
Mine: 80%= 192 x .80= 154
90%= 192 x .90= 173
Finish your cardio but this time don't do your cool down, just abruptly stop and recheck your rate after 2 minutes.
If you got to 80% or greater to your max heart rate of, if your heart rate decreased by 66 beats in the 2 minutes, you're heart is 5 years younger than your calendar age indicating a healthy heart :)!
That means I do act how I feel, not my age. Yay! Lol