Indian Journal of Physical Education, Sports Medicine & Exercise Science

The aim of the study was to develop norms in regard to the resting heart rateof male youth of Delhi. The study was conducted on seventy five healthy male youth of Delhi(attitude: 744 feet/127 meters). The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 25years. A heart rate monitor with chest strap was fixed on the subject and the wrist watch was tied after calibration to check the heart rate of the subjects. The subjects were thenasked to lay down in savasana (corpse pose) for twentyminutes. The resting heart rate were noted at 20th minute, 22th minute and at 24th minute. The average was calculated to determine the resting heart rate of the subjects expressed as HRrest. The other selected supportive variables were age, body weight and height. The collected data was computed with mean, standard deviation, six sigma scale and chi square using SPSS. The study concluded that the developed scales are good normative in references to Delhi youth in regard to their resting heart rate which ultimately is a valued estimator of the cardiovascular fitness/health.