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Sticky heart rate after exercise.
My resting heart rate is 50-54. After exercise, such as golf, my rate will stick at 75 for several hours before slowly descending to normal resting rate. Is this a concern?
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When I was not fibrillating in earlier years, my HR would remain elevated depending on the intensity and/or the duration of my running session. Normally it would only stay elevated for perhaps 10-20 minutes, but with hydration and being calm and at rest it would soon be below 60 BPM. Nowadays, with an older heart, and with it somewhat disordered, it can spike higher during stair climbing and routine walking, and it might remain high for an hour or more, say 75 BPM. Note that 75 BPM is high for me because my new, older, HR is typically 63 BPM.
I don't feel that several hours with elevated HR after golf is right. I could see if it it was frisbee golf, and you wee running between greens, but not otherwise. I would ask a cardiologist to have an examination.
I did mention hydration. Poor/neglectful hydration can cause a spiked HR.