The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Since I’m spamming the wellness thread, has anyone had any success significantly changing their resting heart rate? If so, what did you do?
At the moment my RHR is ~58 at night, 75-85 in the day without recently eating or exercising. It’s my understanding this is significantly too high. Any advice?
Regular cardio exercise (at pretty high heart rates, not just the fat burning zone) should do the trick. At least 3x30m per week.
If you have trauma or other anxieties in your subconscious/body, dealing with that will improve your rhr and heart rate variability for sure. It did for me. I used to have a pretty pressurizing, fast rhr and now I'm much calmer. A more dynamic heart rate that can quickly and often switch gears according to situations is actually healthier, somewhat counterintuitively. A heart rate that's stuck in one gear most of the time is a sign of poor cardiovascular health and/or chronic stress.
Can you give more details about the second part? I'm a pretty fit endurance athlete, but my resting heart rate has been elevated above baseline for at least the last 3 months. It could be sickness, but I think there's a big element of anxiety there too.
Sure, but in order to speak on the subject in any real actionable detail, I'd have to ask you some questions that could feel personal. Might wanna take it to PM.
Or I could just write briefly and in more generalized form here.
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