{"id":195346,"date":"2024-04-04T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=195346"},"modified":"2024-04-05T05:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T05:57:44","slug":"can-you-trust-wearables-in-strain-and-recovery-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/04\/04\/can-you-trust-wearables-in-strain-and-recovery-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Trust Wearables in Strain and Recovery Scores?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smart wearables have proven to be quite accurate in several useful metrics such as heart rate variability or resting heart rate. However, most of them offer other metrics that are derived from proprietary algorithms. Strain and Recovery are good examples of that. A new study puts these to the test. Let\u2019s see what the researchers found.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A new study looked at WHOOP<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Researchers from Penn State University set up a 6-week experiment<\/a> where they looked at physiological and psychological measures that indicate an athlete\u2019s stress and recovery states and compared them against the information shown by WHOOP\u2019s wearable strap in the accompanying app. They evaluated metrics like HRV, RHR, and WHOOP\u2019s proprietary Strain and Recovery.<\/p>\n

They recruited an NCAA Division 1 Swim team, which included male and female Olympic Trials qualifiers, All-Americans<\/a> and national team members from different countries. They designated a 6-week \u201cOverload\u201d period in the swimmers\u2019 training. This was on purpose because the researchers knew this type of training would predictably lead to increased stress, which would serve as a good scenario to test how well the wearables capture this.<\/p>\n

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