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Understanding Heart Rate Variability and Its Performance Potential with Kristen Holmes and Emily Capodilupo
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Is Your Heart Rate Going Down?
If you see rest and heart rate and heart variability trending downward at the same time, that's an indication that you could potentially be experiencing this parasympathetic saturation. When your HRV is going up, it just means that your system is more balanced. And so the more sort of you're not sympathetically dominating, the more room there is for sympathetic activities to come in and dominate. So if you can sort of do more per heartbeat, then that means that at your maximum heartbeat, which is your absolute maximum capacity, you can do more than somebody who's doing less per heartbeat. They're able to do more before they hit their anaerobic threshold and start to go into
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