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Heart Rate Variability – Monitoring your body’s response to training stress

Heart Rate Variability – Monitoring your body’s response to training stress

The electrical signal of the heart can be measured on an electrocardiogram, giving a reading looking like this:       The part of the nervous system that regulates the function of the organs and the cardiovascular system is the autonomic nervous system (ANS)1. This has two sections, the sympathetic nervous which stimulates things for example exercising, and the parasympathetic…