Newsletter #20: tapering and race day HRV
research and practical tips
Should you measure your heart rate variability (HRV) on race day?
What’s an ideal response in the days leading up to the race and on race day?
How well do readiness or recovery scores reflect our ability to perform on race day?
In my latest blog (which you can find here), I try to answer these questions, based on published literature and the past 10 years of experience working with this type of data.
I hope you’ll find it useful.
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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.
Twitter: @altini_marco, Personal Substack.
Hi Marco, can you please advise me or at least help me understand how my HRV reading can go from average of numbers between 38-80 to a reading in the 600’s.
Is this concerning?