Key Health Markers: HRV and Heart Rate

I mean, we were on the continuum of beast mode. The amount that we discussed blood pressure, the next thing we had in it was just out of all the markers, you mentioned HIV, you mentioned blood pressure. Which of them is the most telling for how far into beast mode someone is? I feel like you've answered the question already, but which is the most telling? Well, you've got to look at it from a couple of different perspectives. which ones are things that I like to look at things, what can be taken every day with minimal effort and what needs to be done sporadically. Like if you have trackable tech, which most of my clients wear, right. Um, I can get resting heart rate, peak heart rate, performance, heart rate. If they wear it when they sleep, I can get a long-term HRV after a few weeks. Um, and then blood pressure as long as they have a blood pressure cuff. It's like the two easiest, the number one easiest thing is going to be heart rate because if you have a cell phone or smartphone, you can take your heart rate with your finger. If you have trackable tech, you can do that. If you've got trackable tech, you can usually get a good HRV reading. If someone has higher blood pressure, I'd like them to get a blood pressure cuff, like spend the a hundred bucks and get a really nice blood pressure cuff from the chemist. These ones are super cheap. It has the cord, but you can get the non-corded ones, the wrist ones for big people even. You've got the Omron arm cuff one. the HEM 7500, the black one. Yeah. I'm a technology guy. Yeah. But yeah, that one's easy. But you'll see some things are modifiable faster than others. So things go negative faster than others and some things go positive. So if you're tracking HRV, HRV is a really good one that will immediately change quickly. That's probably your fastest one to change, especially if it's in a negative manner. So you could have great HRV, have one shitty night's sleep or have a few drinks before you go to bed and your HRV crashes. And it's important to then have clients understand what your number looks like and how you feel the next day, because everyone has their own personal HRV reading. And that has to do with your genetics, your age, what you're doing, how fit you are, how unfit you are. So you, you've got, you have to find a good range of HRV for somebody and say, okay, is that range age appropriate? Let's look at the data. Okay. Is that modifiable? If you can, let's try to work on getting that range at least a little bit higher and try to get it in as healthy a position as possible, depending on what your demand is. Like if you're, if you're a world champion powerlifter, your HRV is never going to be like a fucking marathon runner. Like it's never going to be that high. So you can't use that. Or if you're, you know, 250 pounds and you squat 400 kilos. I don't know why I'm using freedom units and metric, but you have to be reasonable with what you're trying to do with life.