HRV (Heart Rate Variability) is an indicator of...

HRV (Heart Rate Variability) is an indicator of overtraining that I had never known about until this past week. " "" "I track my sleep with my Apple Watch, and while I've checked my HRV before, I never paid attention to it. Last Sunday, after a three-hour basketball run, the endcap of a six-day sequence of heavy lifting and basketball, I was exhausted. " "" "That's when I heard on the Huberman Lab podcast that down-trending HRV may be an indicator you are overtraining. So I dug into my sleep data a bit, and lo and behold, the last time my HRV peaked was the week I was deloading in the weight room. " "" "I've taken a week-long workout break (rare for me!) since then, and my HRV has been going up each day. I'm excited to get back in the gym and continue monitoring how my workouts affect this metric; I had been worried for months now that I may be overtraining! #bendevtip

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