Andrew Huberman· PhD
Morning pulse rate I tend to take on waking. If I wake out of a really stressful dream, I might relax a little bit and then just take my pulse rate, kind of get a range, and see if it's spiking for whatever reason.
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Morning pulse rate I tend to take on waking. If I wake out of a really stressful dream, I might relax a little bit and then just take my pulse rate, kind of get a range, and see if it's spiking for whatever reason.
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any elevation resting heart rate over time especially more than three to five consecutive days is an indicator
normally you're going to wake up with your resting heart rate a little bit higher than normally um so that that that if your normal heart rate let's say it's 50 and you're being fatigued you might wake up with 65 so that alone is a hard variability concept
ultimately I think the simplest tool is what is your heart rate in the morning how much do you want to train and more than anything else what happens to you when you are doing your activity if you are getting a hard time getting your heart rate to respond you're probably overstressed
Resting Heart Rate: A rise of 3–5 bpm signals overtraining or poor recovery—but it's a lagging indicator that takes weeks to show up.
And he likes to look at resting heart rate, like first thing when you wake up in the morning, what's your resting heart rate as a good marker of recovery? And if your resting heart rate's higher than it should be, then it's kind of like, okay, maybe you're you're getting into this over non-functional overreaching, which I want to talk about overtraining. Yeah. Um, but nice use by the way. Good dig. Thank you. That's good. uh but HRV so do you think there's you know if if if there's some way people can kind of follow this consistent measurement protocol same time of day same posture same controlled breathing or something that they do like a controlled breathing thing before they measure it something that's giving them yeah you know consistency yeah the big ones in this particular area um these are all respiratory related what you just described there's lots of ways we measure readiness um performance, fatigue, like depending on which spectrum you're in here, we people will call these different things. Load management. There are performance-based ones. There's the these ones you've all mentioned are in the the respiratory physiology side. So that's great. We'll just stick right there. Now, HRV is one of them. Resting heart rate's another. More commonly though that we use are respiratory rate. And then you can look at something like CO2 tolerance. Let's just disregard those for now. We'll focus on respiratory rate or we'll focus on Yeah. on uh HRV and heart rate. Resting heart rate is a good sign if conditions are stable. If your resting heart rate becomes elevated at probably more than 3 to five beats per minute for more than a couple of days that is a good sign something is happening. In this case, not a good thing. Right? So, it's starting to become elevated as you said earlier generally indicates you're getting overcooked, right? too much training or alastic load, total stress, like something not enough recovery or something, not enough recovery calories, something's going on there.