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HRV: Elite vs Recreational Athletes - Andrew Flatt part 1

The Elite HRV Podcast: Heart Rate Variability, Biohacking Health & Performance, Quantified Self

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The Coefficient of Variability of Heart Rate Variability

Andrew: Heart rate variability is a measure of reliability and it's basically telling us how much your scores fluctuated throughout the week. The more for example if you had a really big decrease in hrv at some point during the week then your coefficient of variation is going to be higher. We started working with the Alabama swim team starting in 2015 but there hasn't been a lot of research published in sprint athletes or anaerobic athletes so this was very interesting to me because there haven't been any studies done on those types of athletes. Andrew: In extreme cases i recommend that they stand for their readings but in most cases as long as there isn't excessive discomfort i recommend sitting for pretty

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