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Robin Pla's avatar

Great article ! Do you use HRV tests or something like this to have intermediate informations (regarding fatigue level) between Olbrecht tests ?

David Hemmings's avatar

We use HRV data with some athletes mainly to track longer-term trends rather than looking for specific changes between Olbrecht tests.

HRV is something I’m getting increasingly interested in, especially as the tech keeps improving and becoming more accessible.

Reading @Marco Altini Substack has helped a lot too - he explains things in a way that makes it easier for me to understand. So I’m definitely looking to integrate HRV more going forward.

Robin Pla's avatar

Thank you a lot for the response !

Jacob Lea's avatar

Absolutely brilliant, David - interesting you seem to have arrived at the Evidence-Based medicine approach I was taught during my degree on your own accord (shameless plug but I did a recent Substack discussing this approach in the context of things like coaching instinct: https://open.substack.com/pub/jacoblea/p/how-much-can-we-trust-sports-coaches?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer)

David Hemmings's avatar

Thanks for the feedback Jacob :-)

Gordon Dudman's avatar

Wow! Lots to take in….