Week 17: How to Use Heart Rate Variability for Training
A conversation with Phil Batterson for the Critical Oxygen podcast 🎙️
hi there 👋
I hope everything is well.
A few weeks ago I had a nice conversation with Phil Batterson, for the Critical Oxygen podcast. In particular, we discussed:
The importance of measuring HRV consistently
What to look for in a sensor
Focusing on stability in HRV, not on higher values
HRV as feedback to optimize stress management
Strategies for improving HRV
You can find the episode here. Thank you for listening!
Training, travel, fatigue, and aerobic efficiency
Last week I talked about aerobic efficiency. Below we take another look to see acute changes in relation to big training efforts (e.g. using marathons as training) and intercontinental travel / jetlag fatigue:
Changes in internal vs external load can be a simple but useful way to keep track of how the body is doing / recovering.
Learn more in my latest blog, here.
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In the app, Pro brings the normal values view, which can help contextualizing longer-term changes, as well as rMSSD on the homepage, see an example below:
See you next week!
Marco holds a PhD cum laude in applied machine learning, a M.Sc. cum laude in computer science engineering, and a M.Sc. cum laude in human movement sciences and high-performance coaching.
He has published more than 50 papers and patents at the intersection between physiology, health, technology, and human performance.
He is co-founder of HRV4Training, advisor at Oura, guest lecturer at VU Amsterdam, and editor for IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine. He loves running.
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