Hello folks, welcome back to the Whoop Podcast.

I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

We're diving right in this week's episode featuring WOOP VP of Performance Science, Kristen Holmes, and SVP of data science and research,

Emily Capulubo, and they are talking all things, heart rate variability. That is HRV. HRV is one of the

key signs of fitness and how well your body is ready to perform on any given day.

Kristen and Emily discuss what HRV is and how we measure it, the link between HRV and the

autonomic nervous system, how HRV is a highly personalized piece of data.

They talk about how a good HRV is relative to the person. How HRV is a highly personalized piece of data. You talk about how a good HRV is relative to the person.

How HRV is impacted by menstruation and pregnancy.

Ways to boost your HRV.

Woop member data from the Core 4 Challenge, which just concluded.

And some listener questions around HRV.

This is a great all things

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Here are Kristen Holmes and Emily Capulupa.

So, Hari Variability is one of the most asked about metrics that we have in the platform.

And today, Emily and I are going to just go as deep as humanly possible on all things,

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