Do you measure HRV and/or resting heart rate? If so, how do these metrics influence your training for the day?

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Erin Carson · Answer

I use actually both heart rate, variability and resting heart rate on a daily basis. I use those metrics primarily to make sure that I am in a position to get better as an athlete. I use, heart rate, variability and I watched the trend, my goal is to maintain heart rate, variability. Consistently if not slightly upward Trend, when I see a downward trend on my Heart rate, variability. I know that my stress load is too high and I can make adjustments. I'm not a super patient person. So the adjustments that I tended to make our little bit more proactive. So rather than just sit back and say, I need to train less and rest more, I actually started adding things like meditation, gentle stretching. I decrease some of the intensity, on some of my zone 2 days. I might only do Zone 1. So there are subtle changes that you can make in your training and your daily. Tivities or bring in, as a lifestyle change, that can actually help your heart rate variability, which is your state of stress and response to stress in a, in a really healthier way. So that when you want to train hard and get better and get stronger and get faster, you're in a position to really accept that training load when it comes to resting. Heart rate. There are so many different variables that can come into my life with regards to resting heart rate it Be dehydration. It can be total. Chronic stress load with regards to emotional and intellectual stress. Perhaps a little bit more than physical. I also enjoy a cocktail every now and then and that will change my heart resting heart rate immediately. So my response to exercise when it comes to resting heart rate is typically to look at what I did. The day before it actually put myself in kind of a crappy position, make sure I don't do that again and it typically comes right back. So for me, I'm a pretty well trained athlete as an older ass. Sleet. And it definitely makes me just really look at my lifestyle choices.

Timothy ODonnell · Answer

Great question about HRV and resting heart rate. I do track it on my garmin. But I leave most interpretation to my coaches. And obviously, my feedback on really, just how I feel in correlation to those numbers. Usually, you can tell when you wake up just off of how you feel. If whether your HRV is going to be off, or your resting heart is going to be a little bit high. So a lot of it's known in the body. And then, you know, relaying how you feel to your coaches with what the data is showing.

Emma Pallant-Browne · Answer

So resting heart rate is pretty like standardized time of. As soon as you wake up in the morning, just taking a few deep breaths, chilling, and taking the resting heart rate, then because, yeah. It's pretty much controlled conditions depending on how hot cold. The room is ETC. So, I say, that's a pretty like Dependable measurement, but heart, rate, variability. I use my wife who app And then you get like a real good numbers as long as your heart rates, kind of been accurate and you've been measuring it enough. Then. Yeah. If there's any kind of high figures there, then you're like I kind of know and run down and I do need to back off a little bit with resting heart rate. I kind of use that very much only, if I'm feeling symptoms but heart rate variability, I find, that's really pretty accurate. So if there's something alarming They're definitely backing off and trying to catch it before it catches you.

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"Do you measure HRV and/or resting heart rate? If so, how do these metrics influence your training for the day?"