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by rojeee 1880 days ago
no worries dude. Ah great, I'm sure you'll find the Oura ring really useful to lead a balanced lifestyle. You are right, _managed_ stress - or, exercise - is necessary to improve fitness and resilience. I guess the trick is to stress your body enough to elicit improvements but not too much so that you end up in a chronic stress situation through over-training. E.g. I over trained last week and my HRV crashed the start of this week. I need to rest for 3-4 days, to get it back to baseline. If I continued to train I'd veer further into over-training territory and be more susceptible to illness, injury, become more irritable, less patient, etc.

If you want to learn more about HRV, the Whoop Blog [1] and Whoop podcasts [2] are great resources.

[1] https://www.whoop.com/thelocker/

[2] https://www.whoop.com/thelocker/whoop-podcast-all-episodes/