A fantastic HRV app

As an Ironman triathlete and coach, HRV is a must have tool for all long course / endurance athletes. I’ve used and tested Ithlete, Sweetbeat HRV, Elite HRV, and HRV4Training concurrently to evaluate the each product/offering. Three things standout about HRV4Training that make it what I recommend to my athletes, as well as what I use personally:
1) The ability to use the camera for the HRV reading. Most of the products require a bluetooth chest strap, and the majority of the standard chest straps are Ant+, which will not work without a separate Ant+ dongle for your iPhone. Using the camera makes it very simple, quick and easy to take readings each morning. Likewise, no worries about remembering a separate bluetooth strap when you travel.
2) Beyond simply providing a physical readiness to train, the app has correlations for the information you provide. For example, it will look for relationships between your training intensity and your resulting HRV or sleep and morning HR. When I’ve been interested in this with other apps, it’s required me to download the data into Excel to manually run the correlation information. This app has it built in, and only requires a selecting the two categories to get a resulting correlation.
3) The author does a fantastic job of providing useful information on HRV in general, and studies, etc. as part of his newsletter (optional). He also does a great job of soliciting feedback / input, and continuing to improve and add value within the app on a regular basis.

For the record, I paid for the app personally, and have NO affiliation with the author. I simply think it’s the best HRV app out there and well worth the cost.

GGTriGeek about HRV4Training