Should I trust gym equipments heart rate sensors?
If you’re really worried, I agree with the others that you should just check your pulse yourself. The standard way to check your pulse is to count the pulsations at your wrist or at your jugular for 15 seconds. Use a watch/clock with a seconds hand. Then multiply that number by 4. I guess you could just count your pulse for a whole minute but it’s easy to lose track. So that’s why it’s standard to just count for a period of 15s and then multiply by 4. The average resting pulse/heart rate is 70 beats per minute. It will be lower if you’re really healthy. It would be perfectly fine for your heart rate to go up to 152 while doing aerobic exercise on an elliptical so long as you still feel good. You should feel stressed from exercise but you shouldn’t feel like you’re going to keel over. You might want to time your pulse right after you jump off the elliptical. Your resting heart rate of 90 is a little high for a 21 yo BUT heart rate is rarely ever measured correctly in a doctor’s office.
