https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/heart-rate-in-competition-above-rest Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/heart-rate-in-competition-above-restEvery study that has measured it finds an archer's heart beating faster in competition than at rest, and none finds the opposite. The clearest figure is also the oldest: in 1994 five kyudo archers go from 93-140 beats per minute in free practice to 138-162 in competition. Outside kyudo the numbers are similar, but they come from simulated competitions or from very few people: 128 beats while aiming in the men and 142 in the women of an Indonesian university group, 112 in one experienced archer, between 82 and 120 in two archers wearing a sensor shirt, and between 115 and 148 in the best ends of one international-level archer monitored over two real competitions, without her resting value. The weak point is the word 'well'. When the same archer is also measured at rest, the rest is almost always seated, and the two controlled studies that do so find the heart rate always above rest; the one that gives figures finds a moderate gap, from 82 to 95 beats per minute in eleven archers during a simulated competition. The only comparison with standing rest, in 36 Japanese archers, finds the interval between beats shorter while shooting, without saying by how much. And another study shows that standing up is enough on its own to add about twenty beats compared with lying down, before the bow is even picked up. That the heart rate rises in competition is documented; how far it rises above the same archer's standing rest, in an official Olympic-style competition, nobody has measured.claim:frequenza-cardiaca-sopra-riposo:revision:2026-07-25:2Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/heart-rate-in-competition-above-restclaim:frequenza-cardiaca-sopra-riposo:new_claim:2026-06-12:riportatoFri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT