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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and it's probably no secret if you've been a podcast listener

for a while that one of my favorite ways to pretty much track my body of all the different

things that you could use to self-quantify is something called heart rate variability.

And I've actually had several podcasts before on heart rate variability where I've talked

about this pretty cool health monitoring technique that allows you to tap into how recovered

your nervous system is, how ready your body is to train for the day.

It even allows you to kind of predict whether you might get sick or you might get injured.

And the particular system that I've been using for a pretty long time to track my heart

rate variability is called sweetbeat.

And it's basically just this iPhone app and you wear a heart rate monitor or something

else that we'll talk about in the podcast today.

And you do a simple measurement every day.

For me, it's five minutes in the morning when I'm lying in bed before I get out of bed

in the morning.

Now, what I'm going to do in the show notes for this particular podcast is I'm going to link

you to other podcasts that I've done on heart rate variability.

For example, I have one called the do it yourself guide to using heart rate variability.

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