I intended to indicate that he is an elite mountain athlete in his own right to highlight the fact that his opinion might be carry more weight than a flabby lowland mouth breather such as myself.
Is it not the case that a lot of elite athletes have a low rhr but it's not necessarily an indicator of it? I remember getting surgery as a teenager, having a nurse comment that I must do a load of sport because of my rhr when really the most I did was picking up the gamecube controller
Why do you mention his resting heart rate?