What is HRV Balance?
As an Oura Readiness Score contributor, HRV Balance is generated through a long-term comparison of your personal trends and baseline.
How To Improve Your HRV (Heart Rate Variability)
Learn about 5 evidence-based ways to increase your HRV, an indicator of good health and recovery..
How to Train Better Using HRV
Learn how to use your HRV metrics to get the most out of your workouts and your recovery days.
What Is Heart Rate Variability (HRV)?
Your heart rate variability (HRV) is a great indicator of how adaptable your body is, and it can help you detect stress and other health problems. Below, discover the answer to the question “What’s a good HRV?”
HRV and Stress: What HRV Can Tell You About Your Mental Health
Heart rate variability is one of your body’s strongest physical indicators of stress — here’s how to use Oura to understand your body.
“Mental Health Begins In The Body:” Meet the Neuroscientist Who Uses HRV to Measure the Brain-Body Connection
Australian neuroscientist Kaushik Ram, PhD, shares how he uses Oura to monitor his HRV and offers methods to improve yours, too.
How Accurate Are Oura’s Heart Rate & HRV Measurements?
The Oura Ring performed near-perfect for resting heart rate (r² = 0.996) and extremely high for heart rate variability (r² = 0.980) when compared to a medical-grade ECG device.
West Virginia University Validates Oura’s HRV Against Popular Commercial Tools
Oura’s infrared PPG sensor matched performance with clinical-grade ECG and consistently outperformed other PPG tools
Why Oura Uses The Entire Night Of HRV Data
hile some wearables calculate your HRV using only a small portion of your night (for example one data point from one sleep stage or at a random time), Oura uses your entire night of HRV data.
Oura Helps Athletes Maximize Performance With HRV4Training
Marco Altini is the founder of HRV4Training, an app and web platform that combines training load with heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) data from devices like Oura to help athletes monitor the effectiveness of their training routines.
