All about Garmin® HRV Status

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a physiological phenomenon that can be recorded, analyzed, and interpreted to help understand how your body is navigating the challenges of life and environment.

Specifically, HRV refers to the ever-changing length of time between consecutive heartbeats. When your heart is beating at 60 beats per minute, the beats are not evenly spaced one second apart. Look closely and you will see that some beats are slightly less than one second apart and others are a little bit more than one second apart. This irregularity is perfectly normal and healthy.

#HRV #HeartRateVariability #Garmin

[beats]

Dear Garmin, please consider leaving out music for instructional videos like these.

[backofthepack]

Got a bad head cold just after Christmas and my sleep pattern went to crap and was I’ll for about 5 days, my hrv cratered to about 40 from 53 and after I got better and my sleep recovered it took about a week to get back in the Green, was a an interesting example of how it works for me

[MarikaIzydor]

Hey Garmin! Are you planning to implement the HRV status in the Venu 2 plus? I got a Venu 2 Plus since 3 weeks and was very disappointed that the watch can display HRV only in the stress measurement. Even cheaper watches and trackers like the Fitbit Charge 5 (which I used before the Venu 2 Plus) or the Polar Ignite 3 can display nightly average HRV status..

[FlorinBalanescu]

Had an open heart surgery recently and I'm currently under some medication, but HRV is really low now < 20ms and previously had a normal range of 42-56ms. What is truly odd is stress levels and intensity minutes. Offered on Garmin support to flag my peculiar case, maybe interesting to study, but they refused politely.

[AdrianMcGavock]

Totally agree with all the 'no distracting music' comments... this vid is for people to learn/understand a useful training/recovery tool, not an elevator!

I've turned sound down and subtitles on 😂

[xenonsens]

To all that are worried about your HRV compared to others. The HRV and your baseline should only be compared to yourself. HRV is highly individual even between two very fit athletes.

[MaksMaksimiks]

When will the HPV sync function be added to the new watch and watch after reset? after resetting the settings, you have to wait three weeks.

[ikonographics]

The music makes it impossible to watch this video

[megiMove]

Now you guys just need to add on "naps" on ur watches! 🙌🥳😅

[keithharrison]

For reference, if having problems with Atrial Fibrillation or inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia, the current App (as of 29/08/2023) cannot handle that. You get no Sleep Data at all, and no HRV Data at all.

[sebastienbrochard]

When are we going to have HRV status on what is still sold as a premium watch at the price of a premium watch ... i.e. the forerunner 945! Not the LTE, the simple 945!
Please, Pretty Please!

Thank you!

[andyklapper]

I love my Epic Gen 2 watch, but the thing is a big, bulky, watch. I tried to sleep with it on, and it just wasn't comfortable, at all. (I also have issues getting my dress shirt sleeves to go over it.) So, my one suggestion (now that I can get heartrate in the pool while I swim without a chest band), is make the watch thinner, and smaller. Then, I might be able to take advantage of the HRV status.

[CHRIS_HITCHCOCK]

I’ve found that the stress tracking which uses HRV is a sure fire way to tell if I’m having an AFib episode. When I am, the graph is pure high stress over 75% for hour after hour.

[jheckmann]

Hiding HRV "behind the scenes" in a proprietary "stress" metric was a dumb move. You should update HRV to ALL watches. FR 255 is too large for some of us, even my Vivoactive 3 gets in the way.

[mrp_]

Why not have HRV status on the venu2/venu 2 plus series? I want to track my hrv but I totally hate the sporty look of the ones that have the function and they don't have touch screens which is a big minus for me.

[NofLongevityQuest]

Has anyone been able to figure out how they come up with the baseline range? She mentions that after three weeks it can start giving you the baseline. I tried to see if the high and low in this range were correlated with the high and low over the past three weeks or something. I'd really like to understand this better. My current HRV is 76. 7dayavg is 66, range is 76-92. So my HRV is unbalanced (low) because 66 is way below 76. At no time in the last three weeks did I hit 92, though I have gone up to 112 back in 2022. It would be very helpful to know where this expected range comes from (mathematically and theoretically).

[izmahoby]

Did miss the part where she explained what too high or low indicates?

[aliershadi]

What could be the reason for spikes in HRV which lead to high and unbalanced HRV?

[dougm]

My fenix 6 has read my HRV as 30 (avg) over several months. I’m 44, relatively active, eat well. This metric is so alarming I think about it all the time because 30ms is suppose to be for someone way older. I recently purchased a polar h10 hrm (chest strap) and in 1 reading it was 44 (a lower normal, but not as alarming as 30). My message to Garmin: get it right or don’t offer it as a feature, just to sell a product. You’re scaring people into thinking we have serious medical issues.

[MindYourself]

Hi all! I'm seeing HRVs for other garmin users like 60, or even 80. But mine is around 30 and I'm a male, 40yo, 60kg, moderate runner and have 8+hours of sleep. Anything to be worried about or how to improve HRV?