Some athletes can have a resting heart rate of 50 beats per

Last updated: 7/8/2022

Some athletes can have a resting heart rate of 50 beats per minute compared to 70-80 beats per minute. This decreased heart rate is partly due to sympathetic activity becoming more active and parasympathetic activity becoming less active at rest increases in both sympathetic and parasympathetic activity parasympathetic activity becoming more active and sympathetic activity becoming less active at rest decreases in both sympathetic and parasympathetic activity