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I ordered a tracking device which is applied to the chest and measures a couple of stats for a duration of 48h. You then send it in and after a couple of days get the results back.
Now, most of the stats are not important for me personally (like when I lied down, sat down, or walked. how many steps etc.) but what I was most interested about is the reading of my heart rate variability.
The results look like this (I hope the picture works). I describe what is seen in the picture after the pic:
The first reading is the heartbeat, it does not matter much here, but you can see easily the sleeping time for example.
Important to understand is the third reading. I think that depicts the way a doctor would actually see it when doing a similar test.
You there can see an area between two horizontal lines going from around 0.05 and 0.15 Hz. This area stands for activities of your sympathetic nervous system (SNS) = fight and flight. The area between 0.15 and 0.4 Hz indicates activities of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) = rest and recover.
The intensity of the activity is increased when the color is darker. Ranging from light yellow, orange, red, until blue.
In the picture you can for example clearly see the sleeping pattern, as during nighttime the PNS is showing quite some blue activity.
The second reading is basically where they put a ratio between the SNS and the PNS readings and depict it as a graph. It helps to better read the third graphic.
You can see a nice blue graph during night time, and times of restfulness during the day. With some time of increased SNS (which is not a bad thing in general).
The problem is: the readings above are the results that my wife got back. My personal reading looks quite different and very unusual for a human being.
You can see a clear domination of the SNS with the PNS barely active at all.
The depicted readings are for a 24h period. I have taken the 48h test two times (the second time together with my wife) and all of the readings for the other days look exactly the same.
It also did not matter if I meditated for 20min for example, as it didnt show much (light decrease in SNS activity, but still not in restful mode).
So why is there no refreshed feeling at the morning of the day? Because there is indeed no recovery going on. You look at someone who also could have been awake the entire time for the last couple of years (I sleep by the way between 8-10h every night without much interruptions).
Did anyone else in this forum took a similar test?
Now, most of the stats are not important for me personally (like when I lied down, sat down, or walked. how many steps etc.) but what I was most interested about is the reading of my heart rate variability.
The results look like this (I hope the picture works). I describe what is seen in the picture after the pic:
The first reading is the heartbeat, it does not matter much here, but you can see easily the sleeping time for example.
Important to understand is the third reading. I think that depicts the way a doctor would actually see it when doing a similar test.
You there can see an area between two horizontal lines going from around 0.05 and 0.15 Hz. This area stands for activities of your sympathetic nervous system (SNS) = fight and flight. The area between 0.15 and 0.4 Hz indicates activities of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) = rest and recover.
The intensity of the activity is increased when the color is darker. Ranging from light yellow, orange, red, until blue.
In the picture you can for example clearly see the sleeping pattern, as during nighttime the PNS is showing quite some blue activity.
The second reading is basically where they put a ratio between the SNS and the PNS readings and depict it as a graph. It helps to better read the third graphic.
You can see a nice blue graph during night time, and times of restfulness during the day. With some time of increased SNS (which is not a bad thing in general).
The problem is: the readings above are the results that my wife got back. My personal reading looks quite different and very unusual for a human being.
You can see a clear domination of the SNS with the PNS barely active at all.
The depicted readings are for a 24h period. I have taken the 48h test two times (the second time together with my wife) and all of the readings for the other days look exactly the same.
It also did not matter if I meditated for 20min for example, as it didnt show much (light decrease in SNS activity, but still not in restful mode).
So why is there no refreshed feeling at the morning of the day? Because there is indeed no recovery going on. You look at someone who also could have been awake the entire time for the last couple of years (I sleep by the way between 8-10h every night without much interruptions).
Did anyone else in this forum took a similar test?
Still took an other year till I did now more than 1 1/5 years ago. With one part-time job less I could almost completely avoid PEM (which before has been regular), and which brought indeed great relieve.
