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If anxiety messes your senses, itll do a number on HRV. While there are studies that say HRV is good, I've found the data to be absolutely usless shit.
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I've tried using HRV and the only thing it was good at telling me was that I definitely went to bed at 4am with a bottle of wine, a dozen beers and and four espresso martinis in my blood stream.
The fact my HR was doing 100bpm while "asleep" and I wake up sweating alcohol were kind of giveaways rendering HRV measurement a bit pointless.
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I'm a fortnight into trialling a whoop band. Don't think there's much I can say yet as I am waiting for at least a 4 week block of riding/training before making any definite changes. So far the traffic light system tallies completely with how I feel, and I'm training based on that for the moment.
I'm more interested long term in improving sleep, so being able to use the metrics from this aspect tallied with the data it collects from cycling, stress from travelling etc in one place is the plan.
There's a fair amount of negative online reviews saying things like "whoop says I produced X strain/TSD but all I was doing was having a shower" but I went for it anyway, the actual absolute numbers don't matter, it's more about having some recovery metrics to promote better behaviour/feel fine about smashing lots of pints on occasion
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I don't follow this thread all the time. Has there been any discussion of Whoop? I'm daydreaming about ( far ) future mtb races, and thinking about how I might train better
I like the idea of something telling me when I'm recovered, rather than going by feel, as anxiety tends to mess up my 'feel o meter' by telling me I feel dreadful, when in fact I could be perfectly capable ( physically ) of going out and doing some intervals