Understanding Heart Rate Variability and the Impact on Strength Training with Chris Chapman
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How to Maximize Individual Potential in Strength Training
When you train to failure, HRV is much more affected. And we've seen this in the velocity-based training data. So when you're just looking at strength training in a silo, I think what you would do is if you see HRV depressed still, instead of taking another day off, I would modify the train. That's used to optimize for power if you're doing it for a task and you don't want to create fatigue. If you have no measurement tools, cut your RM in half. Now there's no changes in HRV from a strength training session that doesn't need to be done every single time. There's nothing wrong with being able to lift 8
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