A great way to take some of the guess work out of recovery! Using HRV monitoring can provide significant feedback to help know your limits, execute a safe return to activity after injury, and monitor your bodies handling of various stress inputs. Monitoring HRV is as simple as using a bluetooth HRM (heart rate monitor) chest strap and apps like SweetBeat to help you track. When HRV is low in variation it can suggest the body is locked into a pattern of stress, overtraining, under recovery, or even burnout. The ideal HRV score is with high variation as it indicates synchronicity between our sympathetic (fight/flight response) and parasympathetic (rest/repair response) nervous systems and the heart’s ability to respond. Even though your heart may beat 60 times in a minute doesn’t mean it’s beating once every second. Basically, HRV measures the time between heart beats. While symptoms like injury, pain, and/or illness tell us when things are wrong, how do we know how well we are when things are ‘right’? A new metric being used to measure our body’s homeostasis as it deals with balancing stress and rest is called Heart Rate Variability (HRV). It can be a very difficult task for us to assess how much harm these stressors are causing to our bodies. Being healthy and uninjured while dealing with the various stressors in our lives (busy work, hectic training schedules, lack of quality sleep, sitting all day, etc) can be a very difficult task! These factors can affect us inside and out potentially delaying healing time, decreasing performance, and even leading to training burnout. As pedorthists, we see so many injuries that are in large part due to overtraining or with the body being generally run down.
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