Thank you for this, at the beginning of my journey of trying to understand and implement HRV. Can you please explain why I would want to integrate my Oura? I also don’t quite understand why I would want HRV for training when I have an Oura. Based on your article, they complement each other, but I’m just not sure how. I’m not an athlete, just someone trying to improve her health which went south quickly at the onset of perimenopause.
Two aspects here to consider, to decide what would be best for your own tracking:
> if you can make a morning measurement work in your own day/routine, then I think it would add value with respect to having only night data from the ring. This is because measuring in the morning 1) is further away from evening stressors, and after the restorative effect of sleep, and as such, more representative of your chronic physiological stress level, which is the reason why we measure HRV in the first place, 2) allows you to measure while awake and while seated, both being aspects that make the data more sensitive to stress, and threfore able to capture subtle changes that might be missed when measuring in a overly parasympathetic state as sleep. See also: https://marcoaltini.substack.com/p/monitoring-hrv-why-the-orthostatic and https://marcoaltini.substack.com/p/heart-rate-variability-hrv-measurement
Thank you for this, at the beginning of my journey of trying to understand and implement HRV. Can you please explain why I would want to integrate my Oura? I also don’t quite understand why I would want HRV for training when I have an Oura. Based on your article, they complement each other, but I’m just not sure how. I’m not an athlete, just someone trying to improve her health which went south quickly at the onset of perimenopause.
thank you Maria for your message and interest!
Two aspects here to consider, to decide what would be best for your own tracking:
> if you can make a morning measurement work in your own day/routine, then I think it would add value with respect to having only night data from the ring. This is because measuring in the morning 1) is further away from evening stressors, and after the restorative effect of sleep, and as such, more representative of your chronic physiological stress level, which is the reason why we measure HRV in the first place, 2) allows you to measure while awake and while seated, both being aspects that make the data more sensitive to stress, and threfore able to capture subtle changes that might be missed when measuring in a overly parasympathetic state as sleep. See also: https://marcoaltini.substack.com/p/monitoring-hrv-why-the-orthostatic and https://marcoaltini.substack.com/p/heart-rate-variability-hrv-measurement
> if you go with the option above, then you are using HRV4Training as an independent measurement system so to speak, not linked to your Oura ring. If however, the morning routine doesn't fit with your life, then you could still benefit from how HRV4Training interprets the data, i.e. looking at your daily and weekly trends in relation to your own normal range: https://marcoaltini.substack.com/p/whats-your-normal-range-for-heart , looking at day to day variability as reported in the coefficient of variation: https://marcoaltini.substack.com/p/variability-in-variability or looking at normalized HRV: https://marcoaltini.substack.com/p/should-we-normalize-hrv-by-heart - all aspects that are key to interpret the data and that are somewhat missing from wearables and other apps.
I hope this helps a bit, and happy holidays
Thank you so much!
Always excellent information
Thank you Robyn!