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Understanding Heart Rate Variability and Its Performance Potential with Kristen Holmes and Emily Capodilupo

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Is There a Relationship Between Age and Recovery?

In elite environments, we're always looking at kind of the percent standard deviation relative to your baseline. And that's why we gray out recovery for the first four days on whoop because it doesn't mean anything until you've established this trend. We just studied back in like 2014 and we saw that after drinking alcohol, it took four days for a collegiate squash team to get their HRVs back to baseline. So maybe we can kind of dig into some of the lifestyle factors that really influence your autonomic nervous system.

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