HRV on Vertical

[Frederick Rochette]

I love the way Suunto uses HRV data. The widget is very visual and easy to understand.
The only hitch is that the data is not exactly the same on the watch and the app.

[kamarasm]

If I understand it well, graph appears just after 14 days. As probably all of us updated watch immediately after the new firmware got out, graph should be available in the same time.
Based on it - with my low numbers - I’m in the normal range. I guess it is because it looks the trends.

But I still really curious on why and what means these unnormal low values.

[Mff73]

@kamarasm said in HRV on Vertical:

But I still really curious on why and what means these unnormal low values.

With just 14 days of history, my personal observation (without any scientific knowledge on it) is that my night average HRV is little lower after a day with training.

[babychai]

@Mff73 i feel the same too. my fever also got make HRV drop

[Mff73]

@babychai said in HRV on Vertical:

@Mff73 i feel the same too. my fever also got make HRV drop

question to experts : shouldn’t it be the opposite ? higher HRV in case of illness ?

[Egika]

@Mff73 no. less rest, higher stress on the body resulting in smaller variability.

[duffman19]

@Mff73 said in HRV on Vertical:

question to experts : shouldn’t it be the opposite ? higher HRV in case of illness ?

Definitely not an expert, but I believe your system is more stressed during illness, so the sympathetic system takes over resulting in lower HRV. When healthy and relaxed, the parasympathetic system is dominant and HRV increases.

[babychai]

actually when i got fever my HRV drop a lot. dropped to 18. normal day my lowest is 33. so quite big different actually.

[Kai Liu]

Mine is 30 something where is the chart about hrv and age?

[Todd Danielczyk]

@babychai Pretty cool how it reaffirms your health like that! I had similar results where I got busy at work and run down and my HRV trended with how I was feeling. Pretty good indicator to take it easy or know that we are coming down with something!

[Todd Danielczyk]

@Kai-Liu Here is a write up on HRV for age, sex etc.
https://the5krunner.com/2016/09/16/hrv-how-good-is-your-hrv-and-does-it-matter/

Also
https://welltory.com/the-12-mistakes-when-measuring-hrv/

[babychai]

@Todd-Danielczyk Indeed nice to see this HRV trend to monitor our health and stressful life

[inkognito]

@babychai And beers

[babychai]

@inkognito Wow, you should drink lesser then

[Todd Danielczyk]

@inkognito Ah yes! It is well documented how HRV is affected with alcohol consumption.

In a way I’m glad I didn’t track my HRV in my youth with all the trade shows I went to

[Likarnik]

@inkognito I found that beers before bed affect my sleep HR and HRV much more than hard training or getting sick

[A Former User]

@Mff73 sickness, stress, poor sleep and recovery result in low HRV. Good sleep and recovery, low stress, good fitness result in high HRV. Plus it’s also a bit genetics.

[Mff73]

@Mff73 said in HRV on Vertical:

@babychai said in HRV on Vertical:

@Mff73 i feel the same too. my fever also got make HRV drop

question to experts : shouldn’t it be the opposite ? higher HRV in case of illness ?

thanks to all to correct me

[Tieutieu]

HRV indeed is an indicator of illness, “drunkness” also, tired periods…
It’s directly linked to HR : the higher is the HR, the lowest the HRV should be. But low HR doesn’t mean hight HRV.

But before HRV was introduced, HR at night itselft was already a very good indicator : I can easily find every night I have been partying or drinkink too much, or been hill => my HR at night directly jumps from 40/45 bpm to 60/65.

So HRV is certainly an interesting indicator, but at my athletic level, I still don’t know excatly how I will be able to use it. For now I imagine to combine it with CTL/TSS tracking to sometime decide not to go training even if I want to. Somehow helping me “train better, don’t train more”.

[kamarasm]

@Tieutieu yes, I think so, trends are important.
However I checked HRV during illness. It was 9