REACH YOUR PEAK

01 Variable results

hose of you who use bands from the likes of Whoop and top-end training watches such as Garmin’s Finix and the Polar HR10 will be aware of heart-rate variability or HRV training. This is the variation in time between consecutive beats. Greater variations between beats – represented by an increase in HRV – is associated with parasympathetic activity (rest and recovery); reductions in the variations between beats (decreases in HRV) is associated with sympathetic activity (fight or flight). The idea is that if you