Thanks to wearable devices, you can use all sorts of metrics to keep track of your health. You can check your weight, blood pressure, the number of steps you take, heart rate and more as you go about ...

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 ...

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

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.

Most fitness trackers offer a wealth of heart-rate data. Here’s how to make sense of it. By Talya Minsberg If you wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker, you likely already have access to a steady ...

If you own a fitness tracker, you’ve likely come across the term HRV (heart rate variability). You may have even seen people proudly posting their HRV numbers on Instagram. But what can the ...

At its core, looking at your HRV trend over time gives runners a window into how well they’re balancing training stress with recovery. “Higher HRV is synonymous with having a very healthy nervous ...

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, ...

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