How to Control Your Heart Rate for a Performance
A fast heartbeat is defined as a heart rate that is faster than normal.
The heart normally beats fewer than 100 times per minute in adults.
In children, the heart can beat slightly faster than 100 times per minute and still be considered normal.
At rest, a person's heart rate usually stays within a standard range.
This range is usually 50 to 100 times per minute in adults and slightly faster in children.
With increased physical activity, stress, or other conditions, however, the rate may increase above the normal level.
Sometimes a high rate is due to excessive physical activity, while other times it can be due to panic, stress or anxiety.
To truly measure your heart rate, one must analyze his or her results while at in a relaxed, resting state.
Anything over 100 beats per minute consistently is considered as having a high heart rate (tachycardia).
Although moderately harmless sometimes, tachycardia can cause the heart rate in the upper or lower chambers to increase.
When this happens, your heart is not able to efficiently pump blood to your body.
Lack of oxygen to your body can cause dizziness, light headedness, chest pain or fainting.
A person with a rapid heartbeat may have no symptoms at all.
When symptoms do occur, they may include palpitations, or an unusual awareness of the heartbeat, excessive sweating, fatigue or weakness, shortness of breath, chest pain, lightheadedness or dizziness, and fainting.
Tachycardia can be caused by several factors: • Heart conditions - heart related conditions such as high blood pressure and poor blood supply to the heart muscle due to coronary artery disease, heart valve disease, heart failure, heart muscle disease, tumors or infections.
• Health conditions - Overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) and emphysema and other lung diseases.
• Stimulants - drinking large amounts of alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, smoking cigarettes, and abuse of recreational drugs.
• Other - abnormal electrical pathways caused by a genetic defect at birth, electrolyte imbalances in the body (too little potassium, calcium, sodium and other minerals), and side effects of heart medications.
Prevention is related to the cause.
Many cases cannot be prevented.
In most people, regular exercise is advised even though it causes a rapid heartbeat.
In this case, prevention is not an issue.
Avoidance of cocaine or alcohol can prevent cases from these drugs.
Getting enough fluids can prevent many cases due to dehydration.
If you see a consistent high heart rate, it may be time to look into a professional analysis.
Contact your doctor about your heart rate to find the best solution that works for you.
The speed of the heartbeat usually can be measured by checking the pulse or listening to the heartbeat with a stethoscope.
A test that measures the electrical activity of the heart, called an electrocardiogram or ECG, can also be used to measure the heart rate.
The heart normally beats fewer than 100 times per minute in adults.
In children, the heart can beat slightly faster than 100 times per minute and still be considered normal.
At rest, a person's heart rate usually stays within a standard range.
This range is usually 50 to 100 times per minute in adults and slightly faster in children.
With increased physical activity, stress, or other conditions, however, the rate may increase above the normal level.
Sometimes a high rate is due to excessive physical activity, while other times it can be due to panic, stress or anxiety.
To truly measure your heart rate, one must analyze his or her results while at in a relaxed, resting state.
Anything over 100 beats per minute consistently is considered as having a high heart rate (tachycardia).
Although moderately harmless sometimes, tachycardia can cause the heart rate in the upper or lower chambers to increase.
When this happens, your heart is not able to efficiently pump blood to your body.
Lack of oxygen to your body can cause dizziness, light headedness, chest pain or fainting.
A person with a rapid heartbeat may have no symptoms at all.
When symptoms do occur, they may include palpitations, or an unusual awareness of the heartbeat, excessive sweating, fatigue or weakness, shortness of breath, chest pain, lightheadedness or dizziness, and fainting.
Tachycardia can be caused by several factors: • Heart conditions - heart related conditions such as high blood pressure and poor blood supply to the heart muscle due to coronary artery disease, heart valve disease, heart failure, heart muscle disease, tumors or infections.
• Health conditions - Overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) and emphysema and other lung diseases.
• Stimulants - drinking large amounts of alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, smoking cigarettes, and abuse of recreational drugs.
• Other - abnormal electrical pathways caused by a genetic defect at birth, electrolyte imbalances in the body (too little potassium, calcium, sodium and other minerals), and side effects of heart medications.
Prevention is related to the cause.
Many cases cannot be prevented.
In most people, regular exercise is advised even though it causes a rapid heartbeat.
In this case, prevention is not an issue.
Avoidance of cocaine or alcohol can prevent cases from these drugs.
Getting enough fluids can prevent many cases due to dehydration.
If you see a consistent high heart rate, it may be time to look into a professional analysis.
Contact your doctor about your heart rate to find the best solution that works for you.
The speed of the heartbeat usually can be measured by checking the pulse or listening to the heartbeat with a stethoscope.
A test that measures the electrical activity of the heart, called an electrocardiogram or ECG, can also be used to measure the heart rate.
