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#48 - A Beginner’s Guide To Tracking HRV [Heart Rate Variability]

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Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness:fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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<p>In this episode of <strong>The Choose Hard Podcast</strong>, host <em>Cody McBroom</em> teaches what Heart Rate Variability (HRV) tracking is, why it works, and how it can help guide your fitness journey by optimizing recovery and enhancing performance!</p><p>In this Podcast, he breaks down:</p><p>✅ What is HRV? Understanding the significance of heart rate variability.</p><p>✅ Benefits of HRV Tracking: Learn how monitoring HRV can boost your gym results.</p><p>✅ Top 5 HRV Devices: Explore the best tools to monitor your HRV effectively.</p><p>✅ Morning Measurements: Why tracking HRV first thing in the morning yields the most accurate insights.</p><p>✅ Interpreting HRV Data: Tips on analyzing your HRV scores alongside other vital metrics like Resting Heart Rate, Sleep Quality, and Training Load.</p><p>✅ Actionable Steps: How to adjust your workouts based on HRV readings to prevent overtraining and promote optimal recovery.</p><p><a href="http://www.choose-hard.com"><u>www.choose-hard.com</u></a></p><p><a href="http://www.thetailoredtrainer.com"><u>www.thetailoredtrainer.com</u></a></p><p><a href="http://www.tailoredcoachingmethod.com"><u>www.tailoredcoachingmethod.com</u></a> </p><p>—</p><p><strong>YOU CAN NOW WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE, TO SEE CODY’S SLIDE DECKS &amp; VISUAL COACHING, AT </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WV_VAfgxQA"><strong>THE CHOOSE HARD YOUTUBE PLAYLIST</strong></a><strong>!</strong></p><p>---</p><p>🚀<strong>1-ON-1 COACHING</strong>: ⁠<a href="https://www.tailored-coaching.com/apply-podcast"><u>https://www.tailored-coaching.com/apply-podcast</u></a> ⁠</p><p>💊 <a href="https://jockofuel.com/"><u>Jocko Fuel</u></a> (Use Discount Code CHOOSEHARD10 for 10% Off Your Order)</p><p><strong>📲 TRY MY TRAINING APP FOR FREE</strong>:<a href="http://www.thetailoredtrainer.com/"> <u>⁠</u></a><a href="http://www.thetailoredtrainer.com/%E2%81%A0"><u>http://www.thetailoredtrainer.com/⁠</u></a></p><p>🛒 <strong>GRAB YOUR CHOOSE HARD TRUCKER HAT &amp; DAILY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL</strong>: <a href="http://www.tailoredcoachingmethod.shop"><u>www.tailoredcoachingmethod.shop</u></a></p><p>👥 <strong>TAILORED COACHING COLLECTIVE (OUR COMMUNITY)</strong>:<a href="http://www.tailored-coaching.com/tailored-collective"> <u>⁠http://www.tailored-coaching.com/tailored-collective⁠</u></a> </p><p>---</p><p><strong>🎙️LISTEN TO OUR CLIENT’S TELL THEIR TRANSFORMATION STORIES, ON THE TAILORED</strong> <strong>TRANSFORMATIONS</strong> <strong>PODCAST</strong>:</p><p><strong>- SPOTIFY</strong>:<a href="https://bit.ly/tlrd-transformations-spotify"> <u>⁠https://bit.ly/tlrd-transformations-spotify⁠</u></a> </p><p><strong>- APPLE PODCASTS</strong>:<a href="https://apple.co/3GPlDxG"><u>⁠https://apple.co/3GPlDxG⁠</u></a> </p><p>---</p><p><strong>GET MORE FREE CONTENT AT THE LINKS BELOW:</strong></p><p><strong>📖 FREE</strong> <strong>ARTICLES</strong>:<a href="https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com"> <u>⁠https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/blog⁠</u></a> </p><p><strong>💾 FREE</stro

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0:00.0

H.R.B. Heart rate variability. These devices have been popping up all over the place over the last

0:06.4

couple of years and they've become pretty popular. And so in this episode of the podcast,

0:10.7

I'm going to teach you everything you need to know about H.R.B. That you can know whether or not

0:16.6

you should spend a few hundred bucks on a Garmin watch or a Woop band or an Apple watch or

0:21.7

whatever it may be. Because some of you listening to this, an HRV device might make literally

0:27.6

zero difference in the results you see. But for some of you, it can provide you with extremely

0:32.0

useful information to alter your training and your recovery plans so that you can get better

0:36.3

results in everything that you

0:38.3

do in and outside of the gym. And so throughout this podcast, I'm going to break down the different

0:43.1

tools you can use as well as explain and define what HRV really is, why it's an effective

0:49.1

tool to gauge your stress and recovery levels, and exactly how you can use those metrics to adjust your

0:54.4

training accordingly week to week.

0:59.1

The greatest things in life all start with a challenge.

1:01.8

You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy.

1:06.8

Every everything you want in life begins with a hard path.

1:10.3

The first thing to understand with HRV, heart rate variability, is that it's not just about fitness.

1:16.8

A lot of people assume this is strictly used for athletes, especially ones who are doing endurance sports or things like mixed martial arts,

1:24.7

where you're constantly going from a low intensity to a high

1:28.1

intensity and being explosive right that's not the case uh hrv can be a tool to really just gauge

1:33.8

your overall health well-being and stress levels so somebody could be just training a couple days

1:37.8

of week but they have an extremely taxing and stressful lifestyle due to their career or their family situation or maybe

1:45.8

some trauma they're going through. And their stress levels are chaotic and they need to recover

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