Methods of measuring heart rate

Methods of measuring heart rate

In daily life and physical exercise, pulse rate is often measured instead of directly measuring heart rate.

The method to measure heart rate is to press the tips of your index, middle and ring fingers on the radial artery on the outside of your wrist and measure the number of beats per minute.

During physical exercise, we often measure resting heart rate and exercise heart rate. For the former, we can measure the pulse rate for 30 seconds in a resting state and multiply it by 2 for conversion; for the exercise heart rate, we generally measure the pulse rate for 10 seconds immediately after the exercise stops and multiply it by 6 for conversion.