Heart beat pattern

[Dutch]

I am wondering how a heart beat feels of people who have a resting heart rate of 52 or lower.
Last year, from Jan 2021 to May 2021 I was doing about 50k per month rowing and lots of light weights sessions and my pulse rate dropped to about 56 from 75 over that period, and it would miss a beat now and then. I was told it is probably exercise induced.
I then got a bike erg and my meters dropped in half and basically my pulse went back up by 10 to 12 beats a min resting heart rate and the pause in the heart rate or missed beat went away.
Since June this year I have increased my rowing distances and really ramped up the heavy weights. I also noticed my heart rate recovery after 2 mins was lower over the next few months as well. It would be 120 now it's about 90.
I took my rhr 2 days ago and it was 54, I was like 'oh ok wow'. My heart beats 2,3 or 4 beats then misses then beats then misses etc. I have no side effects or any symptoms.
So I am wondering when a heart rate slows from exercise how does it feel, is it just linear a goes beat,beat beat etc but just at a slower rate or is it finding its own pace and it's quite normal to have a small gap between beats?
It beats perfectly normal when working out or walking, it's just at rest it's different.

[Sakly]

My resting HR is around 45-46 when not fully recovered and recovered lowest 42.
I never recognized missing beats, but a "healthy" heart has no linear equidistant beats, the beats have different pause times - called heart rate variability. You can check this with a belt and an app like kubios HRV.

If you have no symptoms I would not overthink it.

[Dutch]

Thanks sakly. I have just read around hrv and now understand the process. The pause times being key. Very interesting I must say.

[Sakly]

Indeed it is very interesting for me too. I like to log my HRV and so called "readiness" in the morning (using the mentioned app) - very interesting to see dependencies to training and recovery over time

[Joebasscat]

Indeed it is very interesting for me too. I like to log my HRV and so called "readiness" in the morning (using the mentioned app) - very interesting to see dependencies to training and recovery over time

I too have been tracking HRV for about the last 60 days. It’s interesting for sure. Are you allowing the “readiness results” to dictate what type workout you do or just logging it to see patterns, if any. I have done both and really see not much difference. Just not sure what I think about it currently, but I’m a sucker for anything you can track, so for now I’m all in on HRV. I’m nowhere near over reaching so that’s not a real issue for me. Just a curiosity at this point.

[Sakly]

Indeed it is very interesting for me too. I like to log my HRV and so called "readiness" in the morning (using the mentioned app) - very interesting to see dependencies to training and recovery over time

I too have been tracking HRV for about the last 60 days. It’s interesting for sure. Are you allowing the “readiness results” to dictate what type workout you do or just logging it to see patterns, if any. I have done both and really see not much difference. Just not sure what I think about it currently, but I’m a sucker for anything you can track, so for now I’m all in on HRV. I’m nowhere near over reaching so that’s not a real issue for me. Just a curiosity at this point.

Never. I do my workouts like planned or by feel, but not based on metrics like HRV. Nevertheless I can see the impact of training sessions and recovery. Often the readiness matches my feel.

[Dangerscouse]

I too have been tracking HRV for about the last 60 days. It’s interesting for sure. Are you allowing the “readiness results” to dictate what type workout you do or just logging it to see patterns, if any. I have done both and really see not much difference. Just not sure what I think about it currently, but I’m a sucker for anything you can track, so for now I’m all in on HRV. I’m nowhere near over reaching so that’s not a real issue for me. Just a curiosity at this point.

I gave up using it when it would give me a 4/10 and then I'd PB a session, or a 9/10 and I'd crumble and HD. There was just nothing discernibly beneficial from the results ime.

I wasn't convinced that it added anything that intuition couldn't provide, but it might be different for others

[Sakly]

I too have been tracking HRV for about the last 60 days. It’s interesting for sure. Are you allowing the “readiness results” to dictate what type workout you do or just logging it to see patterns, if any. I have done both and really see not much difference. Just not sure what I think about it currently, but I’m a sucker for anything you can track, so for now I’m all in on HRV. I’m nowhere near over reaching so that’s not a real issue for me. Just a curiosity at this point.

I gave up using it when it would give me a 4/10 and then I'd PB a session, or a 9/10 and I'd crumble and HD. There was just nothing discernibly beneficial from the results ime.

I wasn't convinced that it added anything that intuition couldn't provide, but it might be different for others

I feel/think exactly the same, so this is the reason I don't let dictate it anything.
Typically I am more suffering from muscle weakness/missing muscle recovery than cv system. But I can see that it goes hand in hand a bit. If muscles are not recovered and I am feeling really bad in the morning also my RHR is higher and HRV in tendency is lower.
What I can say overall the last time: my recovery from hard to very hard sessions is much improved, even if done on consecutive days. I think this relates much to my changed diet.