Genetics can dictate whether your HRV naturally tends to be on the higher or lower end, but positive lifestyle choices, ...

Fitness trackers and smart watches are widely popular wearable devices that measure several types of health metrics, including step count, calories burned, sleep quality, Vo2 max and heart rate. As a ...

Heart rate variability can reveal how well runners are recovering – here, a cardiologist explains how to use HRV without ...

Your heart rate variability (HRV) score shows the variability between heartbeats. This helps measure how well your heart responds to stimuli like stress and physical activity. There are several ways ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) measures the fluctuations in time between heartbeats. While it isn’t a health metric you need to overthink, HRV is an indicator of how well the body can adapt to and ...

Oura reports that heart rate variability (HRV) measures the variation in heartbeat timing, reflecting stress levels and recovery. Higher HRV indicates well-being, while lower HRV signals stress.

Imagine if your Apple Watch could tell you which days were best for you to do a workout, and what kind of workout you should do. Well it can, sort of, thanks to a hidden feature that few people have ...

New research on heart rate variability suggests that composure isn’t a personality trait. It’s a physiological skill the nervous system can train—one that may determine who thrives when the stakes are ...

Stress is an imprecise term and a difficult thing to measure. But technological advances mean it’s now simple to capture what is perhaps the best proxy for our response to it: heart rate variability, ...