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1. what is an acceptable recovery heart rate level five minutes after exercising?

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Exercise: Generally heart rate returns to the vicinity of the resting rate within 5 minutes unless the exercise was prolonged and high level.

Dr Niazi and 2 doctors agreed

Answered 7/6/2020

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