Long-distance triathlon glossary·HRV

HRV : Heart Rate Variability

Load

The variation in time between consecutive heartbeats, a marker of recovery and stress.

A healthy heart doesn't tick like a metronome: the interval between beats varies slightly. High HRV (highly variable intervals) signals a rested autonomic nervous system and good recovery. Low HRV flags fatigue, stress, or overload. Best measured each morning at rest, fasted, with the same protocol daily so the trend is readable.

In TriPaced:

In TriPaced, HRV is not yet natively integrated (V2 feature). Recovery sessions are scheduled via TSB (form) computed from CTL and ATL based on your Strava activities.

Source Task Force ESC/NASPE, 1996 : Heart rate variability: standards of measurement

Related terms

  • TSS : Training Stress Score
  • CTL : Chronic Training Load (fitness)
  • ATL : Acute Training Load (fatigue)
  • TSB : Training Stress Balance (freshness)
  • Sweet spot : the efficiency zone
  • Threshold : the upper sustainable limit