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HRV, low state for a long time

My HRV has been too low for 4 weeks. I think the watch is measuring wrong. I'm healthy and everything is as it was. No change in lifestyle, sleep, stress, everything ok. My Training Intensity is rather less now.

Does anyone have the same experience?

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Etupes25 over 1 year ago in reply to Thom@s +2

Thom@s said:
It could also be that due to less training intensity and volume, my HRV dropped, in view of these values

Several users are complaining about lower HRV values these days. Maybe it is a software…
Thom@s 11 months ago +2

I think the only, but quite fundamental problem is that the algorithm cannot distinguish normal physiological fluctuations from overtraining, although it can apparently handle them, see the slow decline…
Etupes25 over 1 year ago in reply to DaKo +1

DaKo said:
10 days ago I ran a half marathon at the max (tried to break PR) and since then, it actually dropped below and stayed below

On Garmin Connect, add the nightly averages to the HRV status. This…

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0 Vincent656 11 months ago

Same for me. HRV is much lower in the last 3-4 weeks than before although nothing changed from training or health perspective. But this has a huge effect on Garmins evaluation of my training efforts and development. Hopefully Garmin fixes that issue fast, because it worked well in the past!

0 Thom@s 11 months ago

Now I no longer think that the HRV values per se are at fault. They seem ok to me and +/- match the values from last year. I simply have a lower HRV in autumn and winter. Last year, this problem didn't show up because I had started using the watch in the autumn of 2022 (I think that's also when Garmin brought this HRV update, but I'm not entirely sure).

I think there is an error in the interpretation of the readings.

0 7404195 11 months ago in reply to Thom@s

If it is different in winter, the baseline should change

Same problem

0 MC86 11 months ago

It seems like a ton of people are experiencing the same thing. I guess the data is correct, we can’t be experiencing error measures all at the same time. Unless the sensor and measurements are strongly affected by temperature and other factors that change in the colder months. But that seems unlikely to me. So if the raw data is correct, then the baseline needs to adjust faster than has been. Because otherwise the training status get stuck on Strained for weeks or months and it’s useless.

0 7404195 11 months ago in reply to MC86

Just

0 StijnV 11 months ago

I'm experiencing the same issue. Also optical heart rate monitor reading is off during a run.

0 Tiago78 11 months ago in reply to MC86

Agree with you,is not faulty readings ,I use suunto Race on my other wrist and the values are identical, sometimes equal others with 2 or 3 ms difference. The problem is the baseline takes lots of time to adjust to the new reality and then affect all the data from the watch. They should implement a new model or give the option for users reset the baseline and start over again

0 7dfcd1938c0146f1804397d33ddc9c14 11 months ago

Fyi, this paper suggests that HRV is indeed lower in the winter doi.org/.../204748730000700209

0 DaKo 11 months ago in reply to Tiago78

I agree on seasonal influence on HRV. But a drop of 10-12 ms average in two weeks? That is 25% lower, and not slowly decreasing, but all of a sudden. If the readings are correct, than I must be dying now :-)

0 Thom@s 11 months ago

I think the only, but quite fundamental problem is that the algorithm cannot distinguish normal physiological fluctuations from overtraining, although it can apparently handle them, see the slow decline in baseline over weeks.