Heart Rate Variability monitors

[Adriana Lukas]

Anybody has any good recommendations and tips for decent HRV monitors and particularly any views about EmWave machine? 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/EmWave-Heartmath-Personal-Stress-Reliever/dp/B004YFI9Z0

Any feedback much appreciated...

Adriana

[Alex Strick van Linschoten]

EmWave is ok, though their ability to export data is pretty lousy.

The iPhone emwave hook-in is probably the best option for trying it out, though the portable emwave2 device is excellent for times when you don't want (or can't) have a phone on.

Unfortunately emwave doesn't offer a daily score, which is a big minus IMHO. Ithelete offer this (http://myithlete.com/ithlete-HRV-App.html) but they require chest-strap which is incredibly difficult to sync up with the phone to record the data. 

I'm hoping the Scanadu will offer a daily HRV checkin option.

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[The Sauce]

This is only for Android I believe:

I use a Zephyr HxM BT chest strap with HR Pro to measure heart rate variability.

Haven't tested it for accuracy nor on an ongoing basis but I did recently watch a football match with this combo and it was quite interesting to read the time stamped match summary, correlating to the spikes in my heart rate. Just a bit of fun :)

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[Ken Snyder]

I'm using a Garmin Forerunner 620 (just came out a few months ago) and it uses HRV data to estimate muscle recovery in running. It does two things:

1. 6 minutes into the run it tells your your current recovery state

2. on completion, it estimates how many hours (or days) you should rest before a major exertion

I've been meaning to get into the details of how this is calculated but haven't found the time yet. On a purely qualitative, experiential basis I would say it seems to be reasonably good at measuring these variables and if that holds up to examination is a quite useful function for those who are at risk of over-training (a pretty common mistake). Anyway, this is a bit different than what most people are using HRV for and I would love to know if there would be a way to use my hardware in a more continuous HRV model rather than just for run analysis. Anyone tried this?

Ken

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/11/garmin-forerunner-review.html

[IanC]

Hi Adriana,

I tried EmWave for a while; perhaps OK for training one's HR, but otherwise not much use.

I've been using Elite HRV with the Polar BlueTooth Smart chest belt. This gives lots of info which I hope will be useful. It lacks an important metric for me: atrial fibrillation (which I've got round by downloading the data and counting the 'spikes').

However, the real reason I'm 'here' is to contact you. It appears my email address had somehow been embardgo'd (I've just found out) and so maybe I've missed QS news. But if I understand the QS site right, there hasn't been a meeting since April '16?  If so, I hope you're OK.

Best wishes, Ian