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Wouldn't want to say that it's fine, but it is common in our age range if you're just getting back into exercise. My doctor wasn't worried about it early on and I'm close to your age. Into anecdotal territory, it does feel kinda worrying if you're at that rate after a few years of cardio though. Mine improved quite a bit over a comparatively short period.
It's with increasing intensity over time, not staying high over the same effort. As it got easier, I pushed harder, as over time I found it harder to get my heart rate up. It's pretty high intensity for the duration. Been heavily focused on cardio for the last year, prior was mostly weightlifting.
I had been lifting longer too, but it really did almost nothing for my heart rate. Ya know, obvious overlap, but the heart is a muscle and those are different muscles.
For me, I did the whole trainer thing and got a program with a goal of increasing my cardiovascular health. Mostly running and cycling, but after a few months, I could be going all out and my monitor would show me maxing out in the 140s. If you feel like you're progressing though, it might be fine.
Do you feel like there's been improvements in your resting heart rate since you started doing more cardio?
Definitely, my resting heart rate used to be much higher, upper 50s to low 60s. It dropped dramatically after I started seriously doing cardio (treadmill work mostly, and more recently the DDR stuff).