HRV4Training Ambassadors
HRV4Training ambassadors help us build our community
We believe in empowering individuals with the ability to measure and interpret physiological data so that training and lifestyle stressors can be better balanced, resulting in improved health and performance. Learning from athletes and coaches is an invaluable part of the journey
Below you can learn more about who they are
If you are interested in joining them, you can apply here
We believe in empowering individuals with the ability to measure and interpret physiological data so that training and lifestyle stressors can be better balanced, resulting in improved health and performance. Learning from athletes and coaches is an invaluable part of the journey
Below you can learn more about who they are
If you are interested in joining them, you can apply here
Dan Plews
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Dr. Dan Plews is an Applied Sports Scientist, Researcher and coach. As a Sports Scientist. Dan has worked closely with athletes who have won more than 25 world and Olympic titles in the sports of rowing, kayak and triathlon.
As a researcher, Dan completed his PhD in the area of applied HRV. This work focused on implementing and validating methods regarding the application of HRV to track training adaptation in elite athletes. Dan is seriously passionate about endurance sport, particularly Ironman triathlon, where he has coached 3 athletes under the 8-hour barrier. In 2018 he broke the amateur course record at the Ironman Word Championships in Hawaii, Kona in a time of 8 hr and 24 minuets. Winning the overall amateur division by more than 10 minutes and placing 22nd overall. |
Jan Van Berkel
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Jan is a professional Ironman Triathlete from Switzerland. He is the current Swiss Ironman Record holder in 7h48.40 and the winner of the Ironman Switzerland 2018.
Since he became a user of HRV4Training 2.5years ago with his coach Dan Plews and following a LCHF diet, he improved his Ironman finishing time by more than 25min. "As a pro, my subjective feeling is very well developed. HRV4Training helps me put a number behind that feeling. The daily score is a good reminder to take care of recovery, as I see my score going up immediately as I take better care of myself" |
Vita Heine
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Vita is three times Norwegian Champion in road cycling and two times Norwegian Champion in Individual Time Trial. She represented Norway in Olympics in Rio 2016 and is now training towards Tokyo 2020. She started with sports only in her late 20-ies and before becoming full time athlete she worked as an actuary. She is married and lives in Bergen, at west coast of Norway. Her training consists mostly of road cycling, but also cross country running, skiing and strength training during the winter |
Massi Milani
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Massi Milani is a manager in the automotive industry and a sub 2:30 marathon runner. Econometric by passion, Data-Driven focused and Marketer by profession.
Massi combines a busy professional life with hours of training every day, trying to gain the extra edge by monitoring physiological responses to a demanding life, and making adjustments when necessary. During his spare time he loves Reading and understanding new technologies, linked to running and transportation in general. He won twice the New York City Marathon Age Group in 2017 and 2018 and finished 14th globally at the 2017 Wings For Life Ultramarathon. |
David Adams
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David Adams is a full time firefighter, runner and coach. He is married with 3 kids. He has been a competitive runner since the age of 9 as well as an all around athlete. He set and still hold the South Carolina (USA) record for high school 5k cross country, 14:37 (1999). He ran at Clemson University on a scholarship but battled injuries and other obstacles, ultimately hung up his running shoes in 2003. After almost 10 years of consistent running he has managed to run times in the 1 mile and 5k that he ran as a high school junior. He coaches runners of all ages and talent levels. |
Magda Boulet
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Magdalena Lewy Boulet earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team by finishing second in the 2008 U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials.
She also won two team Bronze medals as the captain of the US Cross Country team at the World Cross Country Championships in 2010 and 2011. After a ten year career running marathons on the road, she transitioned to running trail and ultra distance events in 2013. In 2015, Magda won her 100 mile debut at the prestigious Western States Endurance Run, and was named North American Ultra Runner of the Year |
Darcy Norman
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Darcy Norman, experienced Coach, Physio and Trainer working as a Performance Director with a demonstrated history of working in the sports industry.
Skilled in Soccer, Coaching, Athletic Training, Biomechanics, Technology, Data and Fitness Training. Strong consulting professional working on a variety of high performance projects Among his achievements: 2018 UEFA Champions League Semi-Finalist with AS Roma, 2014 WORLD CHAMPIONS - FIFA World Cup with German Nat’l Football Team. 2010 Bundesliga Champions / Pokal Champions / Champions League Finalists with FC Bayern Munich. 2009 Team HTC/High Road - The most winning team in professional cycling - 5 years in a row |
Joann Lukin
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Dr Joann Lukins is a psychologist with 25 years experience with organisations, teams and individuals. She is an Associate Professor at James Cook University, lecturing within the undergraduate program and to post-graduate doctoral students Dr Lukins was the inaugural sport psychologist to the North Queensland Cowboys, a position she has retained since 1996.
She is the sport psychology consultant to the Townsville Fire and the former, Townsville Crocodiles. She is recognized as an expert in delivering training within the domain of positive psychology in organizational, sporting and educational setting. |
Tom Walker
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Tom is from the UK but currently working for InnerFight, Dubai where he coaches the endurance and performance athletes.
He began working in the fitness world 10 years ago and studied a degree in Applied Sport Science. Hands on experience of coaching alongside the in-depth knowledge from his degree enables him to adapt and assign various protocols to athletes. One big factor into the protocols he uses is how recovered or ready the athlete is to perform. He came across HRV measurements in 2015 and after a year of using it on himself he began to use it with athletes too. He finds it an incredibly useful tool and comes into contact with it nearly every day. |
Kao Ching Feng
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Kao Ching Feng is an ice cream shop owner. He is also an endurance athlete who rode from New York to Los Angeles (USA) and climbed many peaks such as Denali (USA), Aconcagua (AR), Kilimanjaro (TZ) and Mount Elburs (RU). He ran 33 marathons, including 4 of the 6 Major marathons (Tokyo, Boston, Berlin, Chicago). He is a 6 times Ironman. |
Natasha Bowyer
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Natasha Bowyer is a 24 year old elite triathlete. She races ITU sprint and standard distance. Her goal is to build up ITU points from racing continental cups so that she can improve her world ranking in order to get starts in world cups and the World Triathlon Series over the coming years. |
Rob Isolda
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Si parte come sempre per gioco, poi le cose sfuggono di mano: Rob inizia a correre per compensare la quotidianità dell'ufficio e da allora non ha più smesso.
Circondato da miti come Davide Grazielli e Massi Milani, solo per citare due esempi che sanno coniugare perfettamente mente e gambe. Correre è un gesto semplice, farlo con testa non è così scontato: in vista del Passatore 2019 Rob monitorerà lo stress generato dai workout così da massimizzarne il rendimento e minimizzare gli infortuni. |
Golo Röhrken
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Golo is a medical doctor, head-coach of his own Coaching brand (www.rocket-racing.com) and studies Exercise Science and Coaching at the DSHS (University of Sports) in Cologne.
Golo wants to specialize in cardiology, currently he is coaching triathletes, cyclist and runners of all kinds and abilities since 2005 among others national champion triathletes as well as Kona qualifiers. Golo is a triathlete himself with some age group overall victories in different Ironman and 70.3 Events and 3 Kona finishes (2018 in 8:57h) |
Roxanne Vogel
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Roxanne Vogel, MS, CSCS*D, EP-C, CISSN is the Sports Nutritionist at GU Energy Labs in Berkeley, CA.
Her role at GU includes working with sponsored and elite athletes to optimize nutrition practices, overseeing the Endurance Lab, formulating new products, and educating athletes and consumers about overall nutrition and sports performance. She enjoys mountaineering and trail running and is currently training to climb Mount Everest in May 2019. Her research interests include extreme environmental physiology and nutrition interventions to improve athletic performance. |
Mikael Eriksson
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Mikael Eriksson is a triathlon coach and founder of Scientific Triathlon. He works with age-group athletes all over the world, from beginners to World Championship participants.
He is also actively racing at a very high amateur level. Finally, he hosts the top-rated podcast That Triathlon Show, that is a wealth of evidence-based information for all endurance athletes. Mikael is a Swedish-speaking Finn but currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal. He moved there after quitting his engineering job to commit fully to his coaching and own athletic dreams and aspirations. The engineering background is one of Mikael's most important coaching assets. |
Ander Romarate
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Ander was born with physical disability (without fibula).
He started swimming when he was two years old, to improve his health and soon started competing with swimmers without disability. He was paralympic swimmer, reaching the seventh and eighth place in the 2012 Paralympic Games and holds 6 national records. Nowadays, he is a PhD student in sport sciences and also, he trains triathletes, swimmers and runners, with disabilities and without disabilities. |
Collin Drake
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Collin is a cross country mountain bike racer and aerospace engineer living and thriving with Type 1 Diabetes. Active in the Southern California mountain bike racing circuit, as well as in national-level mountain bike races, he heavily utilizes the HRV4Training applications to optimize his training from both objective and subjective standpoints.
In addition to spreading the joy of an active lifestyle through a numbers-driven training regimen supplemented by HRV4Training, Collin is also an Elite athlete with Team Type 1, an all-diabetes racing team that raises money for scholarships for diabetic athletes, ensures diabetic medical supplies get to those in need across the world, and increases public awareness of diabetes and its management. |
Steffen Lang
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Steffen Lang is a very passionate long distance runner. His main distance is the marathon and he fell in love with it.
Having done 8 marathons in his career, he finished the Hannover marathon in 2018 in 2:30:51 and is shooting for a time of 2:25 in 2019 which will require 110 % of focus and dedication not only in quantity but also quality of training and recovery (and this is where HRV4Training steps in). Due to his job in sales where he is traveling and running a lot in different places, recovery and “readiness” is both challenge and key when it comes to my buildup |
Julita Baker
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When Julita is not researching, writing, or speaking about "The Science of Food Choice,” you’re likely to find her running.
She received a PhD in Nutritional Biology, and is a Nutrition Consultant, Educator, Speaker, and Competitive Runner. She finds that running serves many parallels to her other endeavors. Just as training to get faster, stronger and more resilient takes work and adaptation, she (and other researchers) defines health as the actual ability to adapt. This premise serves as the foundation of her health philosophy, where she implements research in Nutrition, Neuroscience, Psychology, & Consumer Behavior to provide a truly holistic approach to performance and wellbeing. She is very excited to represent HRV as it is the perfect tool for optimizing training and adaptation |
Frederic Gingreau
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Frédéric Gingreau is an Elite Personal Trainer on the French Riviera and Monaco.
With more 10 years of experience as Coach, he is specialized in Ultra Endurance and follow over 40 athletes. He was a former volley ball ro player and is now also providing sports massage. He uses HRV4training since 2016 for his athletes in running, Ultra, Trail, Skyrunning, Triathlon and Duathlon. Frédéric has top athletes in each disciplines, details counts to make the difference. For him, HRV4training is a great addition to performance. |
Anand Hatwalne
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Anand is a marathoner, mentor and a coach from Pune, India; with over 14 years of running experience. He is also a co-founder of Running Potential. A software engineer by profession; he is often found studying advances in exercise physiology, various ecosystems, tools and technologies for improving running/athletic performance.
An experimentalist at heart, he believes in trying the things firsthand before sharing his advice. He loves connecting the dots between seemingly (un)related areas of exercise science. He has delivered many talks in the public domain on various topics ranging from Running Physiology to Race Planning/Execution and of course, on HR and HRV based training. He was invited multiple times to speak on above topics at prestigious institutes in India such as National Defence Academy (NDA) and College of Military Engineering (CME). Anand's personal bests include a 3:20 hrs Full Marathon in Mumbai, and 1:29 hrs Half Marathon in Delhi |
Andy Reed
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Andy is a 48 year old sport medicine physician and ultra-runner. He enjoys the long stuff - 50km and upwards. He lives in the beautiful town of Canmore in the Rocky Mountains. It’s a real privilege to live, race and work there! He was first introduced to HRV monitoring through his work with the Canadian National cross country, biathlon and paranordic teams.
As a sports MD and athlete, he understand the importance of adequate rest and recovery, as well as the need to target key workouts to maximize performance gains. He’s been using HRV4training for a few years to help in his decision making - when to push hard, when to keep things mellow, and when to take a day off. He has been injury free for years now, something he cannot say for a lot of his patients! He thinks HRV monitoring has been a part of this success |
Mattia Giovanni Masiero
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Mattia Masiero da quando ha 5 anni ha sempre praticato calcio. Dopo 7 anni di professionismo e qualche apparizione in serie B, ha deciso di smettere.
Dopo 5 anni di "divano e netfilx", si e rimesso in gioco riscoprendo la voglia di sfida che l'ha sempre contraddistinto, insieme al bisogno di trovare una valvola di sfogo, dando valore alla prevenzione degli infortuni. Tutto questo ha fatto sí che non abbia semplicemente iniziato a correre, ma l'abbia fatto con uno dei migliori compagni di viaggio che qualsiasi sportivo possa avere: HRV4Training. La compagna Carlotta e le due figlie Luce e Marisol danno gioia e amore alla sua quotidianitá. |
Bernadette Dancy
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Bernadette Dancy is a Health and Exercise Coach who specialises in helping people manage work, life and sporting stress using lifestyle changes.
She has over 15 years' experience as a Senior Lecturer in Health and Exercise Science, a PhD in Sport Psychology, a Master's degree in Preventive Cardiology and professional qualifications in Personal Training and Exercise Prescription for Special Populations. Her approach is underpinned by scientific research as well as theories in health and exercise psychology. When she’s not coaching others she enjoys running trails and taking part in Ultra marathons, applying her knowledge first hand |
Marcus Agostinho
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Marcus Agostinho is a Judo coach, including the Brazilian Cadet Judo Team, and teacher in Physical Education higher education.
Master in Sports Science, over the last 8 years, he has researched and applied load control, fatigue and recovery methodologies in the teams in which he works, as well as searched for the most practical and current resources in this area. Among these methodologies, he has experiences with HRV analysis in both scientific studies and athletes in international competitions and training camps, in order to optimize performance and reduce the possibility of athletes' injuries. |
Zoltán Janota
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One of our brightest European ambassador is a Hungarian TOP10 Ironman Finisher, using our application more than a year.
Zoltán Janota (@johnnyghostleader) or as he well know in the sport-community, "Johnny" is doing triathlon for 26 years and the head coach of developing triathlon club. Beside this, he is a TRX -trainer and endurance expert and presenter of a world-wide known food-supplement and sport-education company. His commitment, personality and respect to athletes is a guarantee for us. |
Alessio Piccioni
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Alessio Piccioni di Giulianova, Laureato e specializzato in Scienze Motorie, Dottore di ricerca in Neurofisiologia. Triatleta di lunga distanza specializzato in gare Ironman ed 70.3. Oltre ad essere atleta è un preparatore fisico per sport di endurance (triathlon, ciclismo, podismo) dividendo la sua giornata tra allenamenti personali e pianificazione e controllo degli allenamenti dei suoi atleti. |
Hessel Dreteler
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After a bit of rowing during his time at university Hessel started doing triathlon.
Though he couldn’t swim, long-distance triathlon seemed to him an ultimate challenge. The mental game of endurance sports combined with the variation of doing three disciplines attracted him greatly. What started in 2013 as a small(ish) hobby turned into more of a lifestyle. For him, striving to perform to his best capabilities at races is what drives motivation. Hessel is balancing his life as a triathlete with having a full-time job and spending time with friends. "It is vital to listen to my body. HRV4Training helps me get this insight" |
Sophie Herzog
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Sophie believes that passion enables you to go very far. She loves her training, being consistent with it and looking at numbers "let’s see where the path is going for me in sports and science" |
Alejandro Arjona
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Alejandro Arjona es preparador físico de deportes cíclicos, que desarrolla principalmente su actividad profesional en el sector del Trail Running. Es Licenciado en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte y Máster en Educación por la Universidad de Granada. En la actualidad, concentra el máximo de su actividad profesional entrenando a corredores, dando extrema importancia a la mejora de la rendimiento y la calidad de vida mediante la monitorización de la variabilidad de la frecuencia cardiaca (HRV). Es un corredor incansable. |
Pere Marquina
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Pere Marquina is a triathlon coach and physical trainer of resistance sports in "Maximum performance". Currently he trains more than 50 athletes from all over the world. This is his 14 season competing in triathlon worldwide, and in all modalities. (Sprint, Olimpico, half, Ironman, etc...).
Major achievements as athlete: Champion Category Triathlon Series 2016 sprint and Olympic, Champion Cup Spain 2016 category middle and long distance, Champion Catalan Cup 2017 category and 4th General Absolute, Sub-Champion Catalan Cup 2018 category and 3rd General Absolute. Sub-champion Tricircuit 2018 Category |
Laura Hickford
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Laura Hickford is a fitness coach and yoga teacher in Dubai, training a diverse range of clients from Triathlon athletes to Pre and Post natal ladies.
She took an interest in triathlon in 2016 where she competed in Ironman Dubai 70.3 and Ironman UK 140.6. From there she found her love for Ultra trail running and has competed in many local UAE races. She discovered HRV4Training at the same time as signing up for the Jungle Ultra 2019, this is a 230km run, self-supported through the Amazon rainforest. The training is grueling, so using the HRV4training app is certainly helping with the progressive training load. |
Jay Brittles
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Jay is a 31 year old age group athlete that started the sport only 18 months ago. He joined a local running club to "keep fit" and through his coaching experience in other sports he was offered a strategic role to grow and develop the club from attendance through to training. Within the 18 months of being involved in Triathlon he has qualified to represent Team GB at Age Group level at the World Championships in 2019 at Pontevedra. In addition to this he became an all world athlete (AWA) through the Ironman programme having completed two 70.3's in Barcelona and Weymouth. Jay works for a global sports training provider that has a network from Liverpool to Shanghai and develops the next generation of sports professionals over the course of a two year education programme.
He has been using HRV4Training for over two months and it gives him a clear indicator of his readiness to compete, his fatigue levels but also how he feels in general. He feels that HRV4Training is a massive part of his training data and wouldn't develop long term training plans without this data now. |
Nicola Giovanelli
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Nicola Giovanelli, trentino ma friulano di adozione, ha conseguito un Dottorato di Ricerca in “Fisiologia e Biomeccanica dell’Esercizio Fisico” presso l’Università di Udine con una tesi riguardante il consumo energetico e la biomeccanica della corsa di ultra-endurance.
E’ cresciuto in Trentino, tra le Dolomiti e lì ha praticato sport legati alla montagna (sci di fondo, orienteering, corsa in montagna…). Attualmente è assegnista di ricerca presso l’Università di Udine, dove prosegue gli studi sulla corsa in montagna ed è docente a Scienze Motorie e Scienza dello Sport. Inoltre, lavora come preparatore atletico di numerosi atleti di tutti i livelli, collaborando con lo studio RunLab Udine. E’ lui stesso atleta nel Team La Sportiva e questo gli permette di unire le sue passioni, il suo lavoro e la ricerca scientifica. |
Martin Novotný
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Martin Novotný (48yrs, living in Prague, Czech Republic), transformation (read "health, fitness & stress management") coach, biohacker squared, nutrarian, infovore and amateur athlete, preferring short tracks, OCR’s and mountain biking. His formula for balanced health is a right balance of proper, individually tailored nutrition + smart movement + elimination of unnecessary chronic stressors and he teaches his clients on 1-on-1 basis how to heal & prevent most of the chronic diseases |
Justin Kline
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Justin is an Endurance Junkie. He loves anything that means that he’s going to push his body to its limits for periods of time. "The passion that drives me in those last few suffering hours is so rewarding. I have learned so much along my journey and can’t wait to help my fellow athletes find their passion. It is a group of few, but such a strong community" |
Serena Porrazzo
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Serena Porrazzo, PhD, is a full-time electronic engineer, mum, passionate cook and runner. Being a runner and a working mum isn’t contradictory, they’re complementary.
Of course, now it's more about 'making time for herself ' rather than, 'making sure she has a certain fitness for the race' but she is convinced that staying fit, healthy, and strong is crucial, for everybody. Her family has a history of kidney failures, strokes, heart attacks and hypertension. She'd like to represent women, people, who don’t want to lose themselves. That has a need for an escape, for accomplishing their personal goals through training. Everybody deserves to pursue self-improvement. Especially if it makes us have more energy, more motivation for exploiting life at its best, the longest we can, against all the odds. |
Scott Bayvel
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Scott Bayvel is an age group triathlete from South Africa currently living and studying in Brisbane, Australia. |
Ricardo Mazzini
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Ricardo started his athletic journey back in high school when he joined the Swimming and Track & Field teams. Through sports, he learned the value of discipline, perseverance, and resilience. With HRV4Training he’s been able to optimize his training while increasing loads and avoiding over training or injuries. 2018 became one of his most successful seasons with a half marathon PR, two triathlon podiums. He was able to participate in the 2018 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. |
Lucas Rockwood
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Lucas Rockwood is a yoga teacher, trainer, podcast host, and serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and Managing Director of, YOGABODY, and international leader in professional yoga education and practice tools. To date, he's taught over 10,000 students, certified over 4,000 teachers, and currently live and works in Barcelona, Spain. |
Jan Martijn Jansen
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As a coach he is looking not only at physical stress (which training and races are) but also stressors in general. HRV4trainings helps him coach and listen to the athlete and coaches to get the full picture. This benefits in physical but also mental focus and strength.
Every stressor has its influence on the performance in sports or non sports; work, relations etc. He uses HRV everyday to determine his mental and physical state and adjust his program, schedule, sleep, food for balance and recovery to be ready for the next effort. Last year he finished his first Ironman Maastricht - long-distance. "I absolutely was not able tot finish within 12 hours without the help of HRV" |
Annie Frederick
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Annie has been doing triathlon for 4 years now, early on she knew she’d enjoy the longer distances more as she loves adventure, challenging herself and proving to herself she can!
She is currently studying for her MSc in exercise physiology at Leeds Beckett and trains with the Leeds Triathlon Centre. Her family home is further south in the New Forest, it’s a very different environment and she feels very lucky to have amazing playgrounds to run and ride in. "My favourite discipline is the bike, probably because I like exploring, going fast, sometimes chatting and always stopping for cake!" |
Federico Carmagnola
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Mezzofondista, nato a Ciriè nella primavera del 1993. Pratica sport fin da bambino, ma ci sono voluti diversi anni per trovare nella corsa la sua seconda pelle. Ha incominciato con qualche gara su strada per poi passare anche alla pista. Le sue distanze preferite sono i 5000m e 10.000m, ma non disdegna anche distanze più brevi, come 800m e 1500m. Da 6 anni fa parte dell’Atletica Canavesana ed e' allenato dal Tecnico Sara Chiellino. I suoi più grandi risultati sono: 1’57’’16 negli 800m e 32’34’’ nei 10km, oltre a diverse partecipazioni ai campionati italiani. |
Joachim MacEbong
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A regular runner since April 2013, Joachim has racked up over 7,000 kilometers and completed 3 marathons in his home city of Lagos, Nigeria, as well as numerous races at shorter distances. His immediate goal is a good performance at the 2019 Dubai Marathon. When he is not running, Joachim is a public servant who loves football, music, reading and cheering on other runners |
Bart Cooymans
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Three years ago, Bart started doing triathlons. With his background being a swimmer, he was used to training quite a lot, but not putting stress on his body by training three separate disciplines.
He's always been a big believer in being guided by feel but as his triathlon training volume and intensity went up, he noticed the balancing act got harder and harder. "HRV4Training is the best of both worlds to me, at one hand the insight in raw data, on the other the user input for subjective parameters. With the recovery score that is reported back I could better manage my own program and make better decisions to push through certain training days or take more rest for better recovery" |
Franzi Roselli
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Maratoneta per caso da 5 anni, gli piace allenarsi guardando molto il cardio e ha un grande obiettivo: completare le sei Marathon Majors sub 3h (per ora ne ha completate 4, prossima Tokyo 2019) |
Katie McGibbon
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Katie McGibbon is a Performance Scientist (Physiology) and PhD scholar at the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane, Australia. Her PhD is looking at pacing strategies in swimming and she has spent the last 5 years working in high performance swimming in the UK and Australia. She is also a basketball player turned novice triathlete attempting her first Olympic distance triathlon in 2019 after two sprint distance events in 2018. |
Daniel Rowland
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Daniel is a trail runner and has completed multi-stage races in the Amazon Jungle and in the deserts of Chile and South Africa. He has raced across the frozen tundra of Alaska and on the steep, volcanic slopes of the Canary Islands.
Now he lives his trail-running dream in Switzerland where cowbells provide the soundtrack to his life. In 2019 he is planning ultra-marathons in Switzerland, France, Italy and Spain. He likes to remind himself that “Hope is not a strategy” so he relies on HRV4Training to quantify and plan his training in order to reach his peak. |
Andres Zimeri
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Andres goal as a coach is to continue to educate, guide, help and inspire the people around him, give them the best of himself to help them reach their peak performance through intelligent hard work and commitment.
His goal as a Athlete is to keep improving year after year, taking care of his body/physiology, trying to reduce external stress and dealing with stress in a less harmful way, maintaining a healthy eating habit (low carb high fat/protein). This will allow him to be and stay healthy and keep performing. Enjoying the journey and taking one day at a time, one session at a time, knowing that endurance sports take time to improve and that there are no short cuts to peak performance. One major goal is to get podium in Kona by 2022. |
Alain McKinney
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Alain is currently Head Coach for Takapuna Grammar Cycle Club. The school team is the largest co-ed team in New Zealand and comprises around 50 kids at the moment.
Alain does have a real job (Property Developer) so all their training tends to be pre-dawn. School Cycling in New Zealand is also a winter sport, so it’s nearly always dark, and often raining! To be a coach requires the ability to keep up with some of New Zealand’s finest school cyclists – he has to train harder and longer just to stay near them! To do this, he tries and races as much as he can, which is great fun when you are nearly 50. |
Joshua Lohka
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Joshua Lohka is a Competitive Cross Country skier and aspiring photographer from Canada. Joshua has been skiing for 6 years and has competed across Alberta and British Columbia, Joshua has also attended two Alberta Winter games for cross country skiing and is on his way to his 3rd nationals competition in Ontario. Apart from XC Skiing you can find Joshua pushing his limits trail running in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains or road cycling along scenic back roads and highways. Joshua has been using HRV this past year to help improve his training and racing. |
Pete Wilby
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Pete began coaching during his Sports Science degree in 2010. He now coaches the University of Exeter Triathlon Club, leads the junior coaching team at Exeter Triathlon Club and is coach and business owner at PeteWilbyTriathlOn.
He always tries to progress. Pete believes that everyone who takes part in triathlon and open water swimming is ultimately in it for the adventure. His passion is to support athletes to make progress in a safe, healthy way. "HRV4Training is fantastic. HRV is valuable. HRV4training makes recording daily metrics much easier for athletes. I am very pleased to be part of the team" |
Carson Beckett
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Carson is a U23 professional mountain bike racer. He has enjoyed the journey that racing bikes has taken him on and is grateful to get to use racing as an opportunity to travel around the world. He currently resides in Brevard, NC where he is a full time student as well pursuing a degree in exercise science and loves to be able to call the Blue Ridge Mountains home. "I look forward to utilizing the tools of HRV4Training to optimize my progression and journey in this sport!" |
Nicole Suss
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Nicole is a semi-elite triathlete in the USA and has dreams to go to the Olympics in 2024. She's done all distances, from sprints and olympics to half and full Ironman and simply loves everything about the sport. When she's not training, you can find her travelling or spending time in the Arizona mountains, adventuring her little heart out |
Harrison Boyce
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Harrison is a Cyclist from Milton, Ontario Canada and a member of the True Grit Cycling Team. He got into cycling at the age of 14 and have raced in many different disciplines. He currently focuses on Cross Country MTB and dabbles into Cyclocross in the fall. When he is not at work he loves to spend time with his family and of course on his bike. He looks forward to working with HRV4Training as he has really seen the benefits of using the app in his day to day training. |
Dave Fitzhardinge
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Dave has been involved in some sort of sport for as long as he can remember.
He grew up playing soccer, cricket, rugby, rowing and among all that always loved running. He took up triathlons about 6 years ago and now also races road bikes as well. Dave is 41 and obviously doesn't recover as quickly as he did when he was younger so he's conscious of getting the best return he can from every training session. Monitoring his HRV and listening to his body means he can train as effectively as he possibly can any given day. |
Jon Murray
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Jon is a high school English teacher in the United States. He has a wife, Ariana, and two kids, Lydia and Eliot. He primarily races bicycles (road and cyclocross), but has a history in running and multisport as well. While his focus is on bikes right now, he strives to be somewhat of a fitness generalist so that he's always prepared to hop into whatever event, challenge, or adventure he wants on relatively short notice. |
Jacqui Giuliano
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Being born to two Boston Marathon running parents, Jacqui ran competitively in high school and college but was frequently out with injuries.
Her now-husband started training her for a marathon near the end of college, but added in quite a bit of biking and swimming due to her injury history. Eventually, after getting married on the day of the Ironman World Championships in 2012, he figured they should attempt to qualify for this famous event themselves as a way to celebrate their 1-year wedding anniversary. Jacqui and her husband qualified in June of 2013 and have been racing in the Ironman World Championships every year since. |
Mark Mariani
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Mark Mariani is an internationally recognized certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, a former Marine Sergeant and Elite Close-Protection Professional.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, is a TRX and Tigger Point Master Instructor, a MMA conditioning coach, Training For Warriors certified level-2 coach and life-long Martial Artist. He is a leader in the South East Asian Fitness Industry, regularly delivering certification courses, consulting, presenting at conferences, designing workshops and training a wide variety of people. Mark has a unique skill set, a contagious energy and genuine passion for inspiring, motivating, and educating others to achieve holistic health and wellbeing. |
Raul Palacios
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Llevo corriendo desde los 19 años, actualmente tengo 38. Trabajo como responsable en Decathlon desde hace 13 años y el deporte siempre ha sido una pasión en mi vida.
Actualmente estoy preparando la maratón de Sevilla, 17 de febrero de 2019. El año pasado hice la primera maratón en 2:29:03 con muy buenas sensaciones. Tengo las siguientes marcas: 1000: 2:48, 3000: 8:52, 5000: 15:45, 10k: 32:45, 21k: 1:10:45, 42k: 2:29:03. Siempre me ha gustado entrenar con pulsómetro y también aprender de cómo entrenarme. Ahora con la app HRV4TRAINING me permite tener datos más objetivos de mi estado de forma y fatiga |
Gabriele Ammoni
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Gabriele is a 22 years old passionate runner attending a master’s in science degree at Bocconi University in Managament. His “career” as a runner starts at 18yrs old after crossing his first half marathon’s finish line. Since then, his goal has been to achieve his best performance and pushing his limits a bit far away every time he takes part in a race. Such a target needs to be planned and respected so that he dedicates time to the analysis of his physiological data. That’s why HRV4Training measurements has entered in his daily routine |
Simon Cirnski
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Simon is a 24 years old BSc student of social science. He has been working with athletes for around 4 years now.
His path lead him to cycling few years ago after his knee injury. He was hooked from the start. He had to know everything. Why do we train like that?, why intervals?, what about intensity? how much recovery do we need?, when do we need it. Trying new things, improving training process became his work and since last year he started his own coaching company. Enhancing human performance is his “what is the meaning of life” question. |
Karen Weir
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Karen is a full-time running and triathlon coach based in the Peak District in the UK, working with endurance athletes of all abilities and ages. Her coaching business and philosophy grew out of her experiences as an endurance athlete, starting as a beginner in her late 20’s and working her way up in terms of distances and performances over the last 12 years.
Karen loves learning and developing her knowledge and is always keen to try new methods and approaches, usually on herself before unleashing them on her athletes. She is passionate about ensuring she works with athletes in a holistic manner to ensure they maximise their potential through staying healthy whilst training for their events, which requires as much focus on rest, recovery and nutrition as their training sessions. |
Andrew Usher
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Andrew is the owner of Evolved Training in Blairgowrie Scotland. Andrew works with a variety of clients from everyday people to elite athletes in boxing, kickboxing, golf and a variety of other sports to improve their health and performance depending on their needs.
Andrew has had an interest in HRV for many years as part of this, using this for his own training. In addition, alongside being a performance based coach he has a deep interest in sports science and evidence based training approaches, with HRV being a fundamental component of this. |
Bill Halliwell
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Bill comes from an architecture and engineering background but has been able to transition full time to the pursuits he loves most.
He is a Masters bike racer, Training Peaks Coach and PSIA Level 2 ski instructor. His cycling goal is UCI Masters World Champion 2022. Bill works with the United Nation’s World Food Program. His role is to develop the wellbeing of his colleagues through exercise tracking. With CIScycling he coaches internationally, in real life and via Zwift. |
Shawn Watson
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Shawn Watson is a Stage 4 Lymphoma survivor. He goes by the moniker “World’s Okayest Cyclist” with the vision of helping others who are or have struggled with health issues to get moving. Shawn uses HRV4 Training every morning to monitor his progress.
"It helps me to determine that days level of activity. The historical data is my 'journal' of my progress. The daily keeps me from being overambitious. It is my opinion that this is vital for ALL levels of athletes and fitness motivated alike. Just look at my profile pictures...I am proof that it is okay to be okay |
Michele Stefani
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Michele Stefani, fisioterapista, da sempre crede che l'esercizio fisico sia la miglior cura per i suoi pazienti.
Promuovere il movimento come strumento di benessere è il suo obiettivo principale. Attraverso il progetto Run to feel Better sta accompagnando diverse persone a raggiungere una condizione di salute migliore. Da sempre un appassionato di tecnologia, pensa che monitorare gli allenamenti delle persone da lui seguite sia fondamentale per accompagnarli nel raggiungimento dei loro obiettivi |
Peter Glassford
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Peter is a Registered Kinesiologist and Certified Cycling Coach who has been instructing MTB skills since 2000.
His coaching clients are mostly busy, masters-aged offroad cyclists who want to optimize their health and performance while balancing family and work. He races Mountain Bikes but dabbles in many other disciplines including BMX, cyclocross, running and triathlon. Peter co-hosts The Consummate Athlete Podcast with his wife Molly Hurford. |
Jennifer Real
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Jenn is a medical doctor who came to sport late in life after moving to Hawaii and volunteering in the medical tent at a 70.3. She started out with a road bike, then a MTB, then a tri bike and it escalated quickly.
After racing bike legs in triathlon relay teams, she decided to add swimming and running and started competing in triathlons. In 2018, she added off road triathlon with XTERRA. She won her age group at XTERRA Hawaii Island in 2018 and qualified for and completed in XTERRA World Championships 2018. Jenn is also an avid Zwift racer. In 2019, she plans to race her first Powerman duathlon |
