Respiratory rate tracking
Watching overnight breathing rate as an early fatigue and illness signal
Most sleep wearables record breaths per minute through the night. Against a personal baseline, a jump of a breath or two often shows up before heart rate variability or resting heart rate move, which makes it useful for spotting illness, alcohol, a hard session or a short night. The trend is the signal; a single reading is not. It needs weeks of data before the baseline means anything.
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- Andy GalpinDoes it
Exercise physiologist · Perform podcast
Overnight breathing rate is the number he watches on himself. More than about one and a half breaths per minute above his average means something happened that night, he says. He feels it moves before HRV or resting heart rate, while admitting the data behind that is thin.
Source: Perform: Avoid Fitness Plateaus, Overtraining & Mis-Timed Performance Peaks“If I wake up and my respiratory rate is more than probably one and a half breaths per minute higher than my average, 100% something happened that night, or I’m getting sick, or something else happens.”
Perform: Avoid Fitness Plateaus, Overtraining & Mis-Timed Performance Peaks (opens in a new tab) · 24 Jul 2024
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