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Your resting heart rate is the heart pumping the lowest amount of blood you need because youâre not exercising. If youâre sitting or lying and youâre calm, relaxed and arenât ill, your heart rate is normally between 60 (beats per minute) and 100 (beats per minute). But a heart rate lower than 60 doesnât necessarily signal a medical problem. It could be the result of taking a drug such as a beta blocker.
1 A slow heart rate (bradycardia) can decrease the amount of blood pumped by the heart. 2  The resting heart rate for a healthy adult is between 60 and 100 beats/minute. 3  Bradycardia (resting heart rates slower than 60 beats/minute) does not always cause low blood pressure. The resting heart rate for a healthy adult is between 60 and 100 beats/minute. 2  Bradycardia (resting heart rates slower than 60 beats/minute) does not always cause low blood pressure. 3  In fact, some highly trained athletes can have resting heart rates in the 40s and 50s (beats per minute) without any symptoms.