Originally Posted by
rsbob
Crotchety old man? Evidently Yiddish. Had to look that up since nothing about those words made sense to a gentile.
My understanding is that if you have an elevated heart rate in the morning before caffeine, versus your normal base line, that is a pretty sure sign you over did it the day before - or else you may be severely dehydrated or both! My test is walking up a flight of stairs and if my legs don’t hurt by the last two stairs or dragging the garbage can up our steep driveway and regretting it. Then there is also a quick heart rate check before coffee.
Literally, "old crapper."
Yes, agree, I track a.m. and overnight HR too, because I wear a gizmo 24 hrs. and it is elevated after too much intensity or other stressors and pretty much inverse-parallels HRV, but with a much smaller dynamic range.