Heart Rate Variability and exercise
A student in my seminar did a presentation on Heart Rate Variability with regard to exercise.
He concluded that exercise does not improve Heart Rate Variability but that Heart Rate Variability improves performance.
People with greater HRV benefit from enhanced training adaptations that include variability of intensity from day to day.
Adjusting training according to heart rate variability measured at rest every morning may lead to more efficient athletic training.
“Their benefits include: higher maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), force production and anaerobic power. Since higher HRV is associated with greater improvements in performance, and HRV is constantly fluctuating in a person, HRV has been used to form a new system for daily undulating periodization programs (DUP). ”
