Coach Panel improvements for teams and coaches

In this post we highlight a small update we implemented to make it easier for coaches and teams to monitor HRV trends.

In particular, we have seen from published literature how 3 to 5 measurements per week can be sufficient to monitor an athlete baseline, and similarly we have seen from practical experience that many teams prefer to measure in the 3-4 days in the middle of the week, far from games (for a more comprehensive overview of these aspects, check out this blog post).

Yet, lack of daily measurements makes it more difficult for coaches to get a quick overview of the team status in HRV4Training Pro, as some data might be missing. See for example the panel below where we have missing data for one athlete:

Some of the professional teams we work with do their research, and they know well that the important bit is to look at baseline changes with respect to normal values, as covered here and also in state of the art interventions showing improved performance when following HRV-based advice (see an overview here).

​Hence, lack of a daily measurement should not be a problem, we could for example use the athlete's past week of data, compare to her or his normal values, and then show feedback based on the comparison between HRV baseline and normal values.

This is exactly what you can do by enabling the "Force HRV advice" in your Coach Panel:

At this point you will be able to get visual feedback on the missing athlete's HRV trend:

Which can of course be confirmed by opening the Overview page and looking at the data, in case you'd like to dig deeper:

We hope you will find this addition useful to keep track of your team physiological data efficiently and effectively. 

​Enjoy