Endurance: Heart Rate Variability: Everything You Need to Know

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns gives you a comprehensive education into the breakthrough technology of Heart Rate Variability, one of the most valuable biofeedback data available today. Measuring HRVgives you a direct window in the functional state of your autonomic nervous system, so you can accurately observe your stress levels, recovery rate and readiness to train, and make better decisions to balance stress and rest in daily life.

HRV values are revealed by an EKG test in hospital or laboratory, but recent technology innovation enables you to track HRV in real time using the BradBeat HRV iPhone app, which has been custom designed to Brad’s specs to make it easy to use for athletes and anyone else interested in monitoring stress/rest balance. The BradBeat HRV, and other mobile HRV apps, pair with a wireless chest transmitter to reveal realtime data on your iPhone. HRV measures the beat to beat intervals in your heart rate. Greater variation indicates a harmonious balance between sympathetic (fight or flight) function and parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system function, and delivers a higher HRV score on the 1-100 HRV scale. A metronomic beat with minimal variation in beat to beat intervals indicates you are stressed, overtrained, or have poor cardiovascular health, resulting in a low HRV score.

This show gets a little technical as you learn about the nuances of the additional readings of low frequency and high frequency autonomic nervous system function, but you will come away with an excellent understanding of the benefits of HRV and how to use them to your maximum advantage to make better decisions and learn to gain more control over your stress response.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Primal Endurance podcast.
0:05.2	Slow down and enjoy the show, where we wrap, literally, about everything you need to know.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Brad Kearns. Are you ready? Let's go.
0:16.5	Hey, would you like to learn all about a very important biofeedback measurement known as heart rate variability?
0:25.5	Previously, only possible to measure through a laboratory or hospital EKG report.
0:32.1	And now, for the first time, this incredible technology, mobile device, and a chest strap, you can measure your
0:39.5	own heart rate variability every single day and record this important value that is the measurement
0:45.8	in the variation of beat-to-beat intervals in your heart rate. So, probably the greatest innovation in training and recovery monitoring since
0:57.3	some smart people started to track the resting heart rate values, probably 50 or 60 years ago,
1:05.8	realizing that athletes would have variation in resting heart rate based on their level of stress and recovery
1:12.1	in their hard training patterns. So HRVs actually been used for decades. Going back to the
1:19.1	Eastern Block athletes, we're into this technology, required a $30,000 laboratory device and 11
1:27.3	electrodes placed all over your body.
1:29.4	So it was a big deal, highly sophisticated.
1:32.1	Joel Jamison, one of the early pioneers over at 8 Weeks Out.com,
1:36.3	the noted MMA trainer who's been on the Primal Endurance podcast before
1:40.6	and the Get Over Yourself podcast before.
1:42.9	He's been using this stuff for years and years,
1:45.4	and he indeed had to use one of these expensive machines in the early days. And now the technology's
1:50.2	gotten better and better. And we can all do it. You just have to go to the app store and get my
1:54.7	exciting new custom developed app called Bradbeat HRV. That's right. I have my own HRV app. Oh my gosh, the hurdles and
2:05.2	difficulty of becoming an app developer on the app store and getting approved. They get rid of
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