heart rate
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How to Use Your Heart Rate to Get Better Fitness Results
Your heart rate is a pretty key element when it comes to workout routines. For many of us, it’s how we measure how hard we’re working. And while certainly, a higher heart rate (within a safe range) does generally indicate your workout is pushing you harder, it’s not always as straightforward as that. In fact,…
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These Simple Home Health Tests Are Actually Worth Trying
We know that if we want to maintain our health, prevention and early detection of diseases or disorders is key. Still, seeing a physician regularly can be expensive and logistically challenging — and a lot of people simply don’t do it. While the home test kit universe is exploding (you can test everything from your…
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What Your ‘Heart Rate Variability’ Says About Your Health
One feature a number of fitness trackers offer is a metric called “heart rate variability,” or HRV, which is the interval of time between each heartbeat. But given that we tend to think of our hearts beating at a steady and predictable pace, the fact that the interval between each beat varies can be a…
