YOU COULD BE FORGIVEN FOR
NOT HAVING A CLUE WHAT IT
IS, BUT HRV TESTING COULD
BE SET TO REVOLUTIONISE THE
WAY YOU TRAIN
hink of a stressful situation:
a tough work meeting, your
commute, or just getting
the kids to bed might
spring to mind. But the
reality is there’s no end to
the amount of scenarios
capable of increasing physical
and mental stress on our bodies: from high-intensity
interval training (HIIT), to cooking, or simply feeling
run-down. And when it comes to maintaining an
effective training regime, understanding how these
stressors impact your body’s requirements for recovery is
essential. But how do we know what daily factors cause
us the most stress and, importantly, if we are effectively
recovering from them?
Say hello to heart rate variability (HRV) – the
measure of variation in milliseconds between each
successive heartbeat. While acknowledgement of this
natural occurrence is far from new, those outside the
medical community are only recently becoming aware
that, by analysing how HRV fluctuates throughout the
day, we can garner a wealth of information with regards
to our training, fitness and health.LISTEN
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