Minimum / Maximum Heart Rate

Nope - but I'm a believer in the concept. (Remember to off-set from heavy coffee drinking, opening envelopes from tax-office etc.).

You measure HRV 'on waking' to avoid any factors like food, caffeine intake, stress.

A famous danish special ops soldier (and former teambuilder for Bjarne Riis' team) wrote in his book that every morning when he wake up, he checks his pulse to know the basic state of freshness. You can become a special ops too.

So steer clear of loud obnoxious alarm clocks meant to jolt you out of bed in the morning too?
The heart rate monitor on the apple watch is very appealing to me for reasons like this. Of course id have to take it off of charge in order to get that reading each morning. Am I missing any other flaw in the tech they are delivering on the watch back ?

I'm definitely special and I've had some ops.

When I used to bother with resting HR measurements I'd do it a couple of minutes after any alarm to cater for rude awakenings. I just tried to keep it consistent.

Apple watches & HRV >>>

@hippy

Anyone using an ithlete?

I've just asked about this in the power thread. I saw Scherrit on Saturday who said it might be worth a look at in terms of managing life stress and training load/recovery.

I was hoping to hear some first hand experience, but I guess not yet. I'm also looking for a way of using existing kit (Garmin 500, 800, ANT+ USB stick, iMac) to monitor HRV, without splashing out £40 on an iPhone gadget.

I don't know anyone who's using it. I thought it might be nice to try but I'm not sure I can handle more measuring devices, more data.

There are apps that claim to do similar using 3rd-party HR dongles. A bit of googling duckduckgo'ing should reveal some options.

Lower then my age. Beat that ;-)

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You're 112?

Machines don't lie.

Lower then my age. Beat that ;-)

Give me a few years, my dad's resting HR is about 25 below his age.

Well done dad. Just a bit amazed as I had it more ~60 when taking my pulse.

Lower then my age. Beat that ;-)

I'm only 3bpm away from that. A few months of getting fitness up and I might be able to manage it.

Plus a HRmax that's > 5 times my age.

I once had surgery to potentially get an ablation (long story) and the docs kept asking if I was ok whilst lying waiting for it to start. "Yep, fine, why?" "Only that your HR is about 43 and it only went up to 48 when the surgeon came in, we usually expect it to be much higher than that!"

It did eventually go up once they put the electrodes into my heart, and essentially hand cranked it up to 195bpm, not fun at all.

Going to be easy for you. HRmax > 3 times my age. Sometimes just.

HRmax > 3 times my age

Just over 4× on a good day

My HRmax >5x the number of people still using HRMs. #brodouevenwatts

Mine is exactly 7.

#nowattsbro

That's 7bpm, max.

220-age is a gross estimation and I have seen this rule of thumb be miles out on several occasions during max tests in the lab. Physiology is a fun thing and we are about as different on the inside as we are on the outside.