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Resting Heart Rates and Fitness and Health at Home

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

29/02/2016

BBC Radio Scotland - Personal Best, Resting Heart Rates and Fitness and Health at Home

A look at heart rates during rest and exercise, plus trying out online fitness classes.

Gillian Russell finds out about resting heart rates, plus online fitness classes and how smart homes of the future could help fitness and health.

Do you have any idea what your resting heart rate is ... or what it should be? What about that figure during or after exercise? Gillian Russell and the team find out what it means, whether we should be paying more attention to it and how to go about measuring it ... while some gym bunnies reveal how much they know about monitoring their heart rate.

Your smart home could help you stay fit and healthy! Neil Smith from the NHBC Foundation talks about how technology installed in the homes of the future could monitor your health, track your activity and even lock the biscuit cupboard! Is it all a bit "Big Brother" or a positive step forward for your well-being? 

Do you like to work-out at home? Gone are the days when you stuck a Jane Fonda workout video into the machine in your sitting room! Now it's all about live streamed fitness classes, tutorials you can download and global social media interaction. Fitness journalist Fiona Bugler reviews the latest trends and volunteer Libby gives one of the work-outs a try...

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