Tracking a historical ‘trend’ also sets me up to get a pretty intuitive sense of what’s working. Using the Sweetbeat App is incredibly easy and records multiple attributes to understanding your score. late nights/broken sleep, poor nutrition, and skipping a rest day.) It has taught me what helped improve a low HRV score (such as inversion tables, meditation and cold showers.) Likewise certain factors I learned plummet my score I can strive to avoid (i.e. I stress this often with clients and athletes I work with and scoring HRV allowed me to personally gauge this with precision.Ī simple 3 minute morning measurement for physical ‘preparedness’ delivers a clear picture of my nervous system and whether to go hard or take it easy. This was a crucial step to know that I was honouring the signals from my body as to when to push the gas or step on the brakes. So I began testing my HRV daily at the beginning of 2015. Some of these dug me into a deep hole where my actual health versus my fitness were not on parallel trajectories. As such however, I have got myself into overtrained/under recovered situations more than once. I look forward to testing my limits in preparation for an event or to stay fit every year. It’s just a part of my life to be pushing myself. A great way to take some of the guess work out of recovery! Using HRV monitoring can provide significant feedback to help know your limits, execute a safe return to activity after injury, and monitor your bodies handling of various stress inputs. ![]() ![]() #INEXPENSIVE HRV SOFTWARE BLUETOOTH#Monitoring HRV is as simple as using a bluetooth HRM (heart rate monitor) chest strap and apps like SweetBeat to help you track. When HRV is low in variation it can suggest the body is locked into a pattern of stress, overtraining, under recovery, or even burnout. The ideal HRV score is with high variation as it indicates synchronicity between our sympathetic (fight/flight response) and parasympathetic (rest/repair response) nervous systems and the heart’s ability to respond. Even though your heart may beat 60 times in a minute doesn’t mean it’s beating once every second. Basically, HRV measures the time between heart beats. While symptoms like injury, pain, and/or illness tell us when things are wrong, how do we know how well we are when things are ‘right’? A new metric being used to measure our body’s homeostasis as it deals with balancing stress and rest is called Heart Rate Variability (HRV). ![]() It can be a very difficult task for us to assess how much harm these stressors are causing to our bodies. Being healthy and uninjured while dealing with the various stressors in our lives (busy work, hectic training schedules, lack of quality sleep, sitting all day, etc) can be a very difficult task! These factors can affect us inside and out potentially delaying healing time, decreasing performance, and even leading to training burnout. As pedorthists, we see so many injuries that are in large part due to overtraining or with the body being generally run down.
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