Heart Rate Variability: What It Actually Tells You About Stress, Recovery and the Nervous System
Heart Rate Variability: What It Actually Tells You About Stress, Recovery and the Nervous System Your watch shows you a number each morning and calls it recovery. The number is real. Most explanations go wrong in the interpretation. Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the few measures that lets you see the autonomic nervous system at work in someone sitting still and feeling nothing in particular. It is also routinely oversold — as a stress score, a resilience rating, a daily verdict on how well you are living. At Wellness Space, we have taken more than 400 HRV measurements
