{"id":73722,"date":"2022-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joggingvideo.com\/fitness\/why-you-should-understand-your-hrv-even-if-youre-not-a-professional-athlete\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T00:00:00","slug":"why-you-should-understand-your-hrv-even-if-youre-not-a-professional-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/fitness\/why-you-should-understand-your-hrv-even-if-youre-not-a-professional-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Understand Your HRV Even if You’re Not a Professional Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\n This story is part of Health by the Numbers<\/span>, CNET’s deep dive into how we quantify health. <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Thanks to smartwatches such as the Apple Watch<\/a><\/span> and fitness trackers such as the Fitbit<\/a><\/span>, it’s easier than ever to keep tabs on your own health metrics<\/a><\/span> at home. With just a quick glance at your wrist, you can track your heart rate, pulse and the amount of steps you’ve taken in a day. But there’s one important health metric many people aren’t tracking yet: heart-rate variability. This metric, also called HRV, can give insight into your overall health, stress, fitness levels and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n Your HRV is the amount of time between your heartbeats. And while that may not sound profound, it’s actually an important metric if you know how to find it. Unlike heart rate<\/a><\/span> or pulse, it’s a bit trickier to measure because not all wearables offer it.\u00a0<\/p>\n One of the few wearables that measures HRV, the Whoop tracker, uses it and several other metrics to help tell you if you’ve recovered well enough from your last workout to train again. These detailed metrics are one reason why pro athletes and endurance trainers are huge fans of the product. In fact, I never really heard about HRV until I checked out the Whoop band on the company’s site.\u00a0<\/p>\n Like any other metric that fitness trackers<\/a><\/span>\u00a0give you, HRV is kind of useless unless you understand what it means and know how to use it to improve your health and fitness. Keep reading to find out more about what HRV is, how to measure it, and how it can help you optimize your health.<\/p>\n