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Heart Rate Variability
The Number One Performance Marker You Should Be Measuring
When it comes to health and fitness, people have founda myriad of ways to quantify their performance. From measuring your heart rate zones during exercise to measuring blood sugar responses to food, there are hundreds of ways to measure your success, and in the words of Peter Drucker: “What gets measured, gets managed.”
With all that said, one of the newest forms of measuring health is through a marker called heart-rate variability (HRV). You may have heard of it, but if not, then here’s why you need to: HRV is one of the most reliable ways to measure your nervous system recovery.
One of the biggest problems people deal with is an excess of stress, which can lead to overwhelm and chronic disease. Athletes often train in order to better manage their stress, but we chronically over-train, and many end up pushing themselves closer to disease rather than away from it. For more information on overtraining, check out my article here.
HRV measurements can help you measure your body’s stress level, and predict how you should train, eat, sleep, and spend your time on a given day. How? Well, first lets talk about what exactly HRV is.
