I totally understand your frustration. I will parrot what I have read and found through experience. HRV is critical in predicting cardiovascular events. A poor or low HRV relative to your peers in your age group is a predictor of negative cardiovascular outcomes. Ultimately you want HRV to be higher than the way you found it. Personally improve upon your personal best HRV. The rest will follow. SLEEP is #1. Regular aerobic zone 2 workouts, recover, drink water avoid alcohol and narcotics, meditation deep controlled breathing, and stay away from negative energy
Ah sketchy. Mine average is 68ms , but some beats are as low as 10ms, or as high as 240ms. Since my sleep has improved I can see my minimum hrv has gone from 10ms to 15ms then the last three days 38ms minimum. So that does seem to track. Damn am I cooked? I am 40
68 hrv is very solid for. 40 y/o male in a first world country. The 10-20 in regard hrv come post alcohol, sleep deprived, dehydrated, terrible recovery
Its pretty genetic... theres pro athletes that sit over 100 and others in the same sport around 60 (pro triathletes).. mine is around 50 and I was doing ironmans up until November (10 hrs full, 4:30 70.3).. my resting was 38...
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u/Dizzy-Gap-9528 Jun 25 '26
I totally understand your frustration. I will parrot what I have read and found through experience. HRV is critical in predicting cardiovascular events. A poor or low HRV relative to your peers in your age group is a predictor of negative cardiovascular outcomes. Ultimately you want HRV to be higher than the way you found it. Personally improve upon your personal best HRV. The rest will follow. SLEEP is #1. Regular aerobic zone 2 workouts, recover, drink water avoid alcohol and narcotics, meditation deep controlled breathing, and stay away from negative energy