The OURA ring is a great contender for ‘best consumer-athlete sleep tracker‘. WHAT IT IS It claims to be a high-precision sleep tracker with accompanying analytics and an app that advises you on readiness. As a ‘ring’ it is highly portable, yet your use of it may be limited by your appreciation of its aesthetics.…
A new version of KUBIOS HRV software has just been announced. There is a well-featured free version and a premium version. I would class KUBIOS as ‘advanced’ HRV software. A bit too advanced fro my needs although I did use the previous version a little. 1) Kubios HRV Premium, which is our heart rate variability…
The Foundations of Heart Rate Variability course enrolment is closing in March. There’s a discount code if you want to sign up to it (Coupon code ‘TFK’). This could be an interesting course if you’ve ever wanted to take your use of HRV to the next level. https://hrvcourse.com/learn-more As you may be aware, the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)…
Your early morning training readiness check with an HRV tool like ithlete just got a whole lot more interesting for analysis. With a paid-for ithlete pro account (trial available) you can link to Garmin Connect. ithlete pulls out your in-exercise HRV data. More info from ithlete: <here> Although I’ve not had a look and play…
I’ve often wondered what ‘normal’ HRV was. Am I normal? Am I average? I like to think I am special. No-one else does 🙁 Anyway below is an interesting article which might help you put YOUR OWN HRV score into some perspective. The original is here: > http://www.elitehrv.com/normal-heart-rate-variability-age-gender/. When I last looked Elite HRV was…
EMFIT have 3 essentially-identical products to provide sleep analysis; one each for athletes, the elderly and children prone to night seizures. EMFIT QS is the variant for athletes. On paper the EMFIT QS looks like the dream-product for us athletes, filling a major gap in our analysis of our fatigue and recovery states. Detailed beat-by-beat analysis of heart rates can…
2016 should be an interesting year for the adoption of HRV. Many of you are probably already familiar with some of the advanced HR analyses that can be performed with HRV. Hopefully some of you have benefitted from these and related features. I have mentioned and discussed HRV for well over two years (others for much…