Regularly measuring your HRV has a number of benefits, especially if you’re an athlete. That’s because it can help you better understand when your body needs to recover, and when you’re ready to train again. This is important because as any athlete (or physician, for that matter) will...
Short-term testing kits measure radon levels for between two and seven days. If this is the first time you’re doing a radon test in your home, start with a short-term test so it’ll take less time to find out if you have a radon problem. After that, you may want to opt for a...
These same tortilla shell molds can accommodate any size of tortilla, as you can see pictured below. Method #2: Form tortillas inside an oven-proof bowl. You can also use any oven-proof bowl you have. Coat the bowl with cooking spray, gently press the tortilla inside the bowl, and bake...
You’ll be able to use this single metric to gauge your training stress, measure progress, and even figure out when you’re getting sick before the first symptoms hit. Some wrist-based heart rate monitors don’t even require a chest strap, but keep in mind these are generally less ...
How can you measure and manage your stress levels? There are a few different ways you can monitor your stress levels on a day-to-day basis. One way that has become more well-known with the rise of fitness trackers: monitoring changes in heart rate variability (HRV), which is a measureme...
The most common way to measure vagal tone is via heart rate variability (HRV), which is increasingly becoming a metric used by newer fitness trackers. HRV measures your heart’s ability to adjust the amount of time between beats. High HRV is associated with high vagal tone, whereas low HRV...
How can I measure my stress level? A new function on the Galaxy Watch is the ability to measure stress levels. By default, only manual stress levels are measured when you open the Stress app/widget and then tap on the measure button. If you want to have your stress measured th...
and so if we say that someone’s conversation is hard to follow or is all over the place, they’re beingvague. Sometimes we might say they’re beingincoherent, or hard to follow or make a pattern of their speech, and you will seecoherenceas a measure in some of the HRV apps and de...
HRV, or heart rate variability, is a measure of how steady your heartbeat is. Not how fast or how slow, but how different of a time frame passes between beats. The differences are only measurable with precise equipment, but here's the basic idea: If your heart goes “beat…beat..beat...
On the downside, HRVs are expensive to install initially (several thousand dollars is typical) and they're not guaranteed to pay for themselves (typical annual savings might be a few hundred dollars). On the other hand, money isn't the only relevant measure; what price good indoor air ...