Heart Rate Variability (HRV): Kristen Holmes and Emily Capodilupo explain what HRV is, what affects it, how to improve it, and what it means for recovery and human performance.

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What is HRV? WHOOP VP of Performance Kristen Holmes and Director of Analytics Emily Capodilupo discuss everything there is to know about heart rate variability, including what it is (3:39), why it's such a valuable metric (7:06), how it's an indicator of fitness (10:11), what things affect it (12:59), why WHOOP tracks it during sleep (17:27), the role it plays in recovery (23:04), how it fluctuates regularly (26:42), why it's hard to say what a "normal" HRV is (30:07), the reason it's most be...

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0:00.0	We discovered that there were secrets that your body was trying to tell you that could really help you optimize performance.
0:10.6	But no one could monitor those things.
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1:51.7	So heart rate variability is actually, it's a signal of your nervous system being balanced.
1:56.1	And I think that that's really important and a source of confusion for a lot of our athletes.
2:00.6	It's not so much it's good for your heart to go up and down, although it's certainly not bad.
2:07.5	It's that it's good that your nervous system is being responsive to a wide variety of stimuli.
2:20.8	What's up, folks? On today's episode, we're going to tell you everything you want to know about HRV heart rate variability.
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