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

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

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

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

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

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

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

results in everything that you

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

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

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

training accordingly week to week.

The greatest things in life all start with a challenge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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