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
Armando Abaunza
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Elite triathlete from Panama, currently holding the fastest time for a 70.3 in Panama and preparing his Ironman debut while aiming for another podium at the Central American games
Armando holds a dual degree in exercise science and dietetics and is also a triathlon coach "I use HRV4Training everyday to measure my HRV and look for trends and potentially adapt my training. I’ve also been using HRV4Training with my athletes and I’ve seen that I can almost predict when they need to adjust their training load due to external factors because as it is clearly reflected in the data" |
Nikkola Mathews
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"I am sunshine mixed with a little hurricane. Whilst working full time, I dedicate my spare time to training for long distance triathlons and like to push my limits to be the best that I can be. I have achieved some lofty goals, including 4th AG at the Ironman World Championships in 2019, and recently won the Overall Female Age Group at Ironman New Zealand 2021"
"I use HRV4Training every morning to assess whether I am primed to execute my sessions as intended or whether something needs adjusting. Its a tool I have used for a long time and is a reliable source of how my body is coping with the training and mental stress of work" "As triathletes, we are often tied up in numbers and neglect how our body and mind is actually coping. HRV4Training helps put context around this and forces us to acknowledge by the subjective scores. Then the resulting indication should give us more confidence in adjusting sessions, or pushing forward as intended. It allows us to balance life and training more effectively and confidently" |
Radek Brunner
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Radek is an ultra runner from Czech republic, 5 time podium (three times second place and two times third place) in the Spartathlon Ultramarathon (246km from Athens to Sparta). Radek finished 11th in the 24 hours World championship and is national champion in the 100 km and 24 hour run
"Because I am preparing for ultramarathons, the issue of overtraining is very important for me and HRV4Training helps be better quantify training responses to high loads" "There is not much information about HRV in the Czech Republic among athletes and especially among ultra marathoners. I'd like to change that" |
Sabina Rzepka
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Sabina is a physical culture and sport studies PhD (statistics, endurance sports) and a coach in triathlon, cycling, mountain bike, and swimming. She is also an instructor in nordic walking, skinning and ski touring Sabina is a Polish professional champion in cross triathlon, cross duathlon XTERRA. Before that, she was a middle distance runner "I use HRV4training myself for daily fatigue monitoring and I encourage my players to do so because I believe that it is a very useful and even necessary tool in planning the training process" |
Giacomo Calò
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Giacomo is a professional football player, who began his career in the youth sides of Triestina, in his home town. He then moved to Genoa and was soon signed by Sampdoria, where he was heralded as a 'new Andrea Pirlo'. Giacomo is currently playing for Benevento in Serie B. "HRV is a very important marker of internal load, which can be key in professional football, to better manage training load and other stressors" |
Jo Robinson
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Jo heads up partnerships for a wellness industry start-up, and has just relocated back to the UK after 4 years in Hong Kong. She started using HRV4Training on the recommendation of her Naturopath, following health issues that have happened since the start of the pandemic, largely caused by an energy imbalance and stress.
"The issues definitely started to improve when I began using HRV4Training. I've become really in tune with my mental and physical health, and have zoned in on my autonomic nervous system after discovering just how crucial this balance is to my overall wellbeing" "I've learnt that you can think you're fully recovered, but then discover otherwise and that by taking an unplanned rest day, or even just a slower paced day, has much better effects in the long run" |
Mattia Novaro
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Mattia é un trail runner impegnato principalmente in gare tra 70 e 100 km
"Analizzo tutti i giorni i dati con HRV4Training per avere conferma delle sensazioni personali. Ritengo che HRV4Training possa essere molto utile per sportivi sia amatoriali che professionisti . Durante l'anno i carichi di allenamento sono elevati e le gare sono spesso importanti. HRV4Training mi aiuta a capire quando è il momento di tirare un po' il freno oppure darci dentro!" |
Cassia Rosa
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"I'm a cyclist, a beginner, besides my 45 years of experience on this planet. I started cycling last year, as a form of not getting crazy with the pandemic. But my competitive spirit saw a big opportunity as soon as I started. An opportunity to be happy and healthy" "I use HRV4Training to better know my body and how external elements influence my day-to-day training. The best of all, was to understand how my cycle interacts with my performance" |
Frode Viberg Jermstad
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Frode is a former professional cross country skier, and now a age group triathlete with the age group world record of 8 hours and 30 minutes in the Ironman "I use HRV4Training every day to see how recovered I am. I am learning and can see where I am in my training plan and how I can take it from there" |
Giusy Bari
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"I'm a 44 years woman and I've been running since 2015. I like to challenge myself and to improve my performance.
During the last summer I also started swimming, in 2022 I'll keep running to get faster and I'd love to do my first multi-sport race, an aquathlon and maybe later a triathlon" "I've used HRV4Training since 2018 as I find it useful to see how my body responds to my workouts as well as to predict my race pace. Since I started in 2015 I improved my half-marathon time from 1h55m to 1h30m (December 2021)" |
Arshad Jacob
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Arshad is a 31-year-old triathlete/sport professional/PhD researcher living on the gold coast, who has competed professionally for multiple sports through his early adolescent years through to his late 20's.
" I currently work as a sports performance coach & participation coordinator at a leading school on the Gold Coast. While also pursuing a PhD researching the decline of sport participation in High schools in Australia" "HRV4Training helps me to understand my body and training load better. It helps me manage my sessions so as to get the maximum gain from them. I have found as I grow older it's about training smarter as opposed to training harder" |
Kate Peel
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Kate is a research scientist, whitewater kayaker and an ultra runner, currently training for the Dragon’s Back Race next year, a multiday mountain run covering the length of Wales, totalling 380km and 17400m ascent over 6 days.
"I’m driven by curiosity to see how far I push myself, both physically and mentally. To balance the high stress training, I use breathwork, yoga and cold-water immersion and can see the evidence that it works to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system" "When I started using HRV4Training, I soon learnt an important lesson. I was pushing myself hard going into the peak week of training for a trail marathon. I had noticed my metrics trending negatively (RHR increasing, HRV decreasing), yet I felt motivated and determined to get the training in so pushed on. Predictably, it ended with an overuse injury to my knee, which brought everything to a complete halt. I became much more proactive in using it for planning and became a keen advocate for the benefits of monitoring the trends in your data" |
Daniela Costa
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"Sports and nature are my passion. I started climbing volcanoes and now I am an adventure expedition racer, usually competing around the world in the Adventure World Series. Recently I raced the world championships in Galicia and did 9th place, a dream came true"
"I am also mountain bike instructor and have worked in the outdoor industry for many years and I believe 100% that outdoor sport impacts in an amazing way everyone" "I use HRV4Training every morning as it is a key component in my training program. I use it as one of the tools to evaluate my condition" "I think most of the people trains without tools, help or guidance and I would like to better inform other athletes about resting physiology and HRV4Training" |
Vrayas Mehra
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Vrayas is a professional footballer from India "I have been introduced recently to heart rate variability and I have been using HRV4Training to track recovery. It has helped me a lot to improve my performance. I would love to be an ambassador and promote it to everyone who doesn't know it yet and so they can also benefit from it" |
Melinda Torre
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"I am a fitness instructor; I teach barre3, yoga and Slow Resistance Training. I love biking and running and won first in my age group in the Clark Enduro Fast Twitch Duathlon in 2020. My husband and I are super randonneurs and we completed the Everesting bike challenge together in 2019. I am also a professional singer for a few bands here in Manila"
"I rely on HRV4Training and my coaches for advice as to when I need to scale down training intensity and when I can proceed. My days are pretty full so I need to know that I have recovered enough to train" "HRV4Training has helped me be more attentive to how my body feels. The daily assessment questions are great and really help me be more aware of my fatigue levels and how my sleeping habits contribute to my wellness" "HRV4Training is one of the best things I've discovered this pandemic!" |
Joao Neto
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Joao is a triathlete and coach with a bachelor degree in Sports "I'm using HRV4Training every morning when I wake up to better understand how it is going with my training. I've learnt how we can make training better by using HRV, and therefore improve performance" |
Bruna Moraes Nichele
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Bruna is a chemical engineer and age group triathlete who loves to work with data and to analyze trainings and body responses.
She started in sport competitions through the open water swimming and then street running. In 2017, she added cycling to her training routine and since then became a triathlete. She is currently training for 70.3 Ironman races. "I use HRV4Training daily. It helps me not only to track the training effect on my body, but also my cycles and my health as a whole. It really helps me to pay attention in my body and mind to figure out how I am truly feeling." |
Samuel Aguiar
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Samuel is a ex-rowing athlete, with dozen of National Championships titles, who competed in the World Championship and Olympic Games in 1996. He is now a triathlete "I use HRV4Training every morning when I wake up and determine if I can follow my training plan as prescribed or if I need to limit intensity or eventually rest" "I think HRVV4Training is a very good tool for controlling our training stress in order to improve performance" |
Kirsty Eveleigh
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Kirsty runs a coaching business in the South West and competes in triathlon over long course. She comes from an ultra and trail running background but has enjoyed pushing her triathlon results to be able to compete as a GB Age grouper and qualified for IM 70.3 Worlds
"Over the process of the last year I have been using HRV4Training coupled with lots of podcast learning. HRV4Training informs the intensity of my training over and above what my natural feel allows me providing a more holistic approach to my training week because it factors external stresses like sleep, diet and overall fatigue" "I have become so in tune with tracking HRV and knowing my data that after a couple of glasses of wine or a late night I can predict what the next day has in store. Something we recommend to all our athletes to help training / life balance and knowing when to say no!" |
Romain Mouton
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Romain is a mountaineer using a fast and light style, dad of 3 yo twins and part time consultant within the automotive industry "I am using HRV4Training to mitigate my training plan with the heavy stress of my family life and career. I have a heart disease, so I had to investigate a little about how to manage this with a 20+ hours per week of training. I am taking measurement every morning when I wake up, I think HRV4Training is awesome and needs to be more known" |
Maria Dziembowska
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Maria is the Training Studio Director involved with cycling advocacy and mentoring for over 10 years. She loves helping people get involved in active living, especially cycling and running and is aso passionate about growing female participation in the sport by leading Girls Riding It Together (GRiT) program activities. "I use HRV4Training daily to track resting heart rate and HRV. It helps me to understand how training and other stressors impact my need for rest and I can spot when I need a rest day and when I am well recovered and ready to train" |
Toon Mariën
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Toon is a duathlete and triathlete from Belgium, Flanders, participating at the first division triatlon in Belgium and first division duathlon in France. He recently took 9th place at the Belgium Championship triathlon sprint, 11th place at the European Championship duathlon sprint (elite), and 18th place at the World Championship duatlon standard distance (elite)
"After I suffered overtraining syndrome, I started using HRV4Training each morning to track my stress levels to adjust my training program. I think it is very helpful way to adjust your training programme based on your resting physiology and HRV" |
Sophie Rouys
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Sophie is a triathlete, trail runner, mountain biker, open water swimmer and, as a wildlife biologist, general lover of the outdoors
"I've been using HRV4Training since 2016 when I started training for my first Iron distance triathlon and use it consistently when I'm training as it helps to monitor my levels of fatigue and response to training load" "I am 51 so monitoring my recovery and training load is important to me as it enables me to train more intelligently. I'm also just getting over long covid, which has impacted my HRV. I'm now on a mission to improve that variable and my resistance to effort, HRV4Training is a key element in helping me monitor recovery" |
Dustin Mullaney
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Dustin is a student, scientist, coach and runner currently based in Flagstaff Arizona
"My passion for science stems from my love of endurance sport, which I discovered in high school through climbing and skiing mountains in Colorado where I am originally from. I currently am training for road races with the long term goal of qualifying for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials" "I am recovering from a string of injuries, during which I discovered HRV4Training. I enjoy collecting HRV data and using it to guide my training and hopefully avoid future injuries. Already I have noticed that different life stresses (work, school, etc) affect me differently than I would have thought, and this will help me to plan key training and racing around these other life events. By monitoring HRV I hope to have a more objective measure of the fatigue and stress I am experiencing so that I can avoid making risky training decisions. I think this could be instrumental in getting me to start lines healthy" |
Bianca Claudine Roos
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Bianca is (among other things), a runner.
"More than a year ago I experienced a severe chronic insomnia. It damaged my body, my mental health and all social aspects of my life. I couldn't run anymore, I was not only exhausted due to poor sleep but I knew that something was not right but I couldn't figured out what's going on. After several doctors appointments, my coach recommended to monitor my HRV using HRV4Training. I was skeptical, I admit, but I was also desperate so I gave it a shot. Collecting data, I've got the clue that I was looking for: my menstrual cycle was the one to blame. With the right treatment, my life is now back on track and little by little, my body and my mind are returning back to normal HRV4Training helped and it still helps me to see in reliable numbers that my perception of my body is usually right and it also puts me back on track when I try to ignore a few signs" |
Marcel Romaní Rodés
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Marcel is an undergrad in mathematics and physics currently finishing a MSc in Data Science. He is a trail runner who has been competing in regional races for a while until 2 years ago. He placed 3rd at the Catalan Championship and joined the Catalan Team to compete in the Skyrunning World Series
"I use HRV4Training every day. On a weekly basis, my coach and I use this data and my subjective feeling to plan the following weeks. Moreover, the daily advice gives me confidence about the next training sessions when numbers are good even though I may feel a little bit tired. Having used it for almost a year now, I have learnt the importance of gathering objective physiological data as a daily basis in order to improve performance and avoid overtraining by taking data driven decisions" |
Charlene Tang
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Charlene is a triathlete and triathlon coach. Over the last 6 years, she has progressed from complete beginner to a 4 time 70.3 Ironman World Championship Qualifier with multiple Age Group podiums
"HRV4Training has been such an incredibly useful tool since I started early this year. Previously I had no idea the actual impact life stressors, sleep quality, nutrition, hormonal cycle etc, could impact training. But with HRV4Training, the numbers are there to back things up (how I feel vs the actual state of the body), and I can easily make adjustments to my trainings based on how my body is responding, when to limit training stress, when I am primed to execute a hard session, etc. It has given me insights to what otherwise would have been guess work, therefore it has been helpful with optimizing my training plan and performance" |
Fernando González-Mohíno
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Fernando is a PhD in Sport Science and runner (30'27 in 10k, 3'49 in 1500 and 14'40 in 5000m) "I use HRV4Training to control the intensity of my training during phases of high load and competitions and believe more people need to know this tool" |
Heather Wesson
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"I love running, especially cross-country over winter to take a break from road racing. I fit my interest in sports around my current degree - I am a final year student studying Physiotherapy at Nottingham University.
I currently use HRV4Training as a marker to monitor my physiological response to various stressors, to help me plan my training. Through using the technology, I have developed a better understanding of when I can push a little harder or when I need to back off. It has been beneficial to build up a picture over time and has allowed me to change and adapt my training programme so I can perform at my personal best at all times" |
Silvio Delgado
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Silvio used to be a lazy guy addicted to food, beer and PlayStation. 6 years ago he changed his life with a diet, lost 15kg and then started a path to become an Ironman less than 2 years later.
"HRV4Training has shown me how much my work stress can affect me. Somehow you know, but having the data and creating that database is very helpful. It is also very interesting how you can have a not so low heartbeat and still be able to perform very well, but went it comes to HRV, things are totally different, and this is something you can rely on" "Learning to respect my body is the major takeaway from HRV4Training" |
Julie Townsend Leavell
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Julie is a Special Education teacher and fitness enthusiast
"My fitness journey began at age 16, when I became aware of the impact of nutrition and exercise on one's entire well being. I have learned that regular sleeping hours, quality sleep, hydration, and reducing stress, affect heart rate variability. Plus, when I do not get a workout and maintain my daily routine for more than a week, such as when my mom passed away, the data showed my HRV numbers dropped. This has taught me to include meditation during those times to help combat the stress, which in turn has strengthened my mentality, so that I can set boundaries with others, resulting in my return to a healthy lifestyle" |
Peter Rojtas
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Peter is a multiple Slovak junior triathlon champion. He is the current champion of Slovakia in the triathlon of open categories and races in the word championships series, aiming for the next Olympics "I use HRV4Training together with my coach, so that we can adjust my training and make it more effective" |
Georgie Butler
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Georgie is a triathlete, who did her first ironman at age 24 and went on to represent GB in the EU Middle Distance Championships in 2018
"I use HRV4Training every morning to gauge how well my body is recovering and what condition it's in for the day's scheduled training session(s). The tags are also really useful for my coach to view, and we use the overall trends to adjust my training plan (like scheduling easier weeks if my scores have been getting consistently low or amber). We also discovered that my HR follows a trend with my menstrual cycle, so we can almost predict what stage I'm at and how I'm going to be feeling, which I thought was really cool!" |
Juan David Prada Malagón
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Juan is a pro triathlete and mathematical-physicist, working as a data scientist. "I am intrigued by the impact of data driven decisions for performance and its representation in goal achievements. In particular, I find very interesting the quantification of health metrics that may give a better insight about performance and health. I use HRV4Training to better understand the impact of stimulus in general, ranging from performance to day to day habits in the full body" |
Ronald Hernàndez
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Ronald is a Triathlete from Costa Rica and currently preparing for the IRONMAN distance "I use HRV4Training every day to monitor my heart rate variability. The most important thing I have learned is to respect its feedback to improve my performance" |
Belinda Wheeler
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Belinda is a social worker and designer who gets most excited bringing these two together to design new solutions for social issues. She loves being outdoors and has always been a walker and swimmer, and since 2 years ago, also a runner.
"I use HRV4Training to pace myself. I can be an all or nothing kind of person and running requires the long, slow work of developing capacity if you want to run without injury. My job is also demanding and before using the app I struggled to guage the impact this chronic stress was having. Using HRV4Training I now have a reliable measure that I can see and interpret. It's helped me tune into my body, learning the degree to which differ stressors impact me and giving me the ability to adapt, respond and track the changes. Through this I have been able to develop trust in my body and trust in the process of training and recovery" |
Wai Mun Yeong
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Wai is a former international rower and now an amateur competitive cyclist. Working in the space of sports science and technology, he balances the science and it's practical application to form a holistic approach to training and sports performance.
"HRV4Training has been pivotal in helping me maintain a healthy status during times of stress. It's easy to fall into the trap of insisting on going hard when the body is starting to shut down. Balancing work and sports is even more crucial as I move up the age groups. It's not always beneficial to simply take two tablespoons of cement and harden up. HRV4Training has also taught me to sharpen my focus on days when my body is ready and I'm supposed to go hard" |
Fuminori Takayama
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Fuminori is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the National Strength and Conditioning Association and has a Ph.D. in Health and Sport Sciences. He has co-authored research publications that includes case studies of HRV conditioning for elite middle-distance runners and a review of conditioning using HRV.
"I use HRV4Training Pro to provide conditioning support for elite athletes, and help them prevent injuries and improve their performance by consulting on the relationship between their daily changes in HRV and training load and factors other than training (e.g., daily stressors). I also use HRV4Training to manage my physical and mental condition. I believe that conditioning using HRV for athletes is still not widespread in Japan. I believe promoting HRV conditioning in Japan will help prevent performance degradation due to sports injuries and overtraining, and would like to be part of this initiative" |
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Sylvia Rayner
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Sylvia is an educator and a clinical hypnotherapist passionate about helping people become the most fully realized version of themselves through inner mastery "I used HRV4Training when I was getting diagnosed with/treated for breast cancer. I knew about HRV from my work with athletes. It was good to have something to objectively measure my overall health, cardio conditioning, and to know when I needed more rest. Invaluable. I was also able to share this with my doctor" |
Guido Vroemen
Emine Sporel Ozakat
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Emine is a sports nutritionist and a functional medicine health coach using an integrative approach to sports performance
"I believe that scientific and evidence based personalized sports nutrition and personalized mind-body medicine complement each other to optimize performance. I am using HRV4Training to monitor my athletes. The most important monitoring for me involves recovery in terms of nutrition as well as stress. Recently I have noticed that HRV can also predict illness even before the onset of symptoms. I would like to inform my colleagues about this useful tool" |
Cliff Pittman
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Cliff is a full time coach and ultramarathoner "Data is a big part of my coaching process. I love being involved in my local running community and help lead a large trail running club. I use HRV4Training to give me insight into trends, avoid non-functional over reach, perfect the taper, and see how lifestyle habits impact my physiology" |
Dario Bellini
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Dario è un ex ciclista elite, ora triatleta e preparatore atletico "Ho imparato a gestire meglio il carico di allenamento misurando ogni mattina la mia HRV con HRV4Training" |
Carolyn Meder
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Carolyn is an athletic trainer who specializes in injury prevention and dance medicine. She works full time for a professional ballet company and while having a background as a ballet dancer herself, also competes as a recreational runner, cyclist, and triathlete most recently securing a spot at the Ironman 70.3 Championships by winning her age group.
"I use HRV4Training to monitor my training load and set expectations for my day ahead. HRV4Training gives me objective data on how my body is handling the loads I place on it from work stress to triathlon training and it plays an integral role in helping me plan details in my day such as diet, exercise intensity, and when to power down for sleep at the end of the day" |
Raúl Celdrán
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"Raúl is the master coach and the responsible of the nutrition of Natur Training System" "I have been using HRV4Training for years with my athletes and myself for tracking the readiness to train, the recovery process and how the athletes cope with the training load. It easily syncs with Training Peaks and that allows me to import the measures into the software WKO5 to analyze in depth all the metrics that HRV4Training gets and compare it with the Power Management Chart in WKO5. This gives me very insightful information about how the unique physiology of each athlete behaves in the face of training load, stressors of daily life, etc." |
Jorge Martinez
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Jorge is the head coach at E3 Triathlon Coaching with 19 years of experience. He is also a Sport Scientist at the FreeSpeed Lab where he performs metabolic testing, gait analysis and bike-fits.
"I've been using HRV for a few years. I use HRV4Training to track athletes response to training and "life stressors" to help us inform training decisions. I've been asking those athletes using it to use it as a guide to altered planned training (switch sessions around) if needed. I think HRV is a significant vital tool for athletes/coaches alike as it can help us make more informed decisions regarding training or help us dig deeper into life stress when the training doesn't seem to the root of a HRV out of baseline. The more I can help educate athletes and coaches alike, the better the performance we can expect" |
Jasmijn Muller
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Jasmijn is an endurance cycling coach and ultra distance bike racer. In the past she has competed in time trials, resulting in National 12hr, Nat24hr and World 24hr TT champion among others. Jasmijn was also 1st female in BikingMan Oman (1000km) and Race Around the Netherlands (2000km).
"I would like to be a HRV4Training Mentor to work with the HRV4Training Coach platform and fine-tune training for both male and female athletes better. Athletes can have a tendency to focus too much on the exercise they are doing, but not enough on how they are actually recovering from and adapting to that training stress HRV4Training is the perfect tool to find this balance" |
Pablo Marcos
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Pablo is a professional cycling and triathlon coach (British Federations) specialized in High Performance at the Spanish Olympic Committee MSc program. He is also a competitor with experience at AG level having represented his country in ETU European and ITU worlds as well as 70.3 World championships.
"As a scientist, I love data and I look into all marginal gains so I have been using HRV measurements for the past 4 years for myself and with my athletes To me tracking internal load in all possible ways on top of external load (which is so accessible nowadays), is an amazing way of really ensuring correct assimilation of training AND how other stressors in daily life may affect training. We have been tracking HRV (personally since 2018 and with athletes since 2019) since we learnt about it, found how easy is to measure and how low cost it can be!" |
Federico Alvino
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Federico is a medical doctor, cardiologist, sport cardiologist, triathlete and coach. Co-author of publications in sports cardiology and exercise physiology. He works with athletes both as a cardiologist and as a coach and he is an Ironman finisher. "I'm using HRV4 training every day to guide my training. I've learnt this is a great tool to better understand the physiological impact of training" |
Michelle Simmons
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Michelle is a long time Ironman Triathlete and an endurance training coach, racing in Kona in 2022 along with 8 athletes she coaches who have also qualified. It will be her 19th ironman!
"I immediately saw the value in HRV4Training and then encouraged a bunch of the athletes I work with to start using it as well. Just this morning I can say that the app gave me a pre-warning that something is going on inside… I’m not sure what yet but the app detected a lower than expected HRV and warned me about it. I could think of no reason it should have been low so I tried riding my bike but HR was escalated +15 beats above normal right from the warm up so I bailed on my planned training session for today. (I never would have done that otherwise!) I now feel like I’m coming down with a virus or something. I’m in awe the app picked that up and warned me (even though I didn’t want to believe it at first!) I think this app is super useful and it makes HRV measurements super accessible to just about everyone! I’m happy to spread the word about products that are truly amazing like this one" |
Grant Dearns
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Grant is a rugby coach who has been using HRV4Training for over 5 years, starting in Japan, and currently in Russia
"I use HRV4Training personally to track my general health and in teams settings in the context of managing the training load. We have also seen drops in HRV for some individuals before games and obviously some elevation in specific circumstances relating to recovery. I am a firm believer in the value of HRV but more-so the value of HRV4Training - because of the easy to use nature of the app and the quality data it provides" |
Federico Smanio
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Federico is a former professional soccer player, currently CEO of the first sports tech incubator in Italy. He is also a runner with a 1:21:09 PB for the half marathon. I am a passionate and regular user of the HRV4Training and HRV4Biofeedback apps. "I use HRV4Training every day first thing when I wake up. I monitor my HRV trend and follow the recommendation to continue or reduce the intensity of my training sessions" |
Tessa Backhuijs
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Tessa is a sports medicine specialist based in a hospital with 5 years experience as a team doctor for a World Tour Cycling team (women). She is also an off road cyclist, training for gravel / MTB races. "My body is my laboratory to experience the training / recovery / nutrition advices I give. That's why I started working with HRV4Training. Besides my subjective scores every morning I like to see my HRV. I like to detect a trend to evaluate and adjust my training. I learnt that after a race it can be higher due to functional overreaching." |
Jose Acosta
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Jose is a triathlon coach and sport scientist as well as a long distance triathlete and coach of a triathlon club with 60 triathletes
"My intention is to achieve a massive use of HRV4Training my athletes because during the months of my preparation it has been very useful for me. I use HRV4Training to manage training, understand the impact of alcohol, carbohydrate intake, changes in tapering weeks along with breathing work to regulate it. I now want to use it after training to see how it affects each type of training and the stress and strain that different workouts generate" |
Craig Duncan
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Dr Craig Duncan is one of World”s leading Human Performance Scientists with a passion for maximising the potential of organisations, teams and individuals. Dr Duncan led the performance science teams that directly contributed to the drought-breaking winning performance of the NSW State of Origin team (2014 & 2018), the history-making performance of the Western Sydney Wanderers FC winning the Asian Champions League (2014) as well as making the grand final of the A-League (2016) and the Australian Men’s National Football Team (Socceroos) that won the Asian Cup (2015) and qualified for the World Cup (2018).
"I use HRV4Training with athletes and corporate clients from a perspective of recovery. HRV gives valuable insights that can enhance the performance of our clients" |
Thomas Bottiglieri
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Thomas is a Sport Medicine Specialist in Orthopedic & Community Medicine at Columbia University & New York Presbyterian. His experience with Heart Rate Variability and Biofeedback dates back to work he started in 2007 in his study under the guidance of Evgeny & Bronya Vaschillo at Rutgers University. Since that time he has utilized HRV and Biofeedback in his care of athletes, especially those with brain injury (sports-related concussion). "I use HRV4Training and HRV4Biofeedback regularly. The insights have been instrumental in the identification of factors that impact my wellbeing everyday in both physical and cognitive performance." |
Nadine Visagie
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Nadine is a former semi professional MTB rider and an endurance sports coach. She is also completing her MHSc with particular focus on performance and fatigue management of elite cyclists, focusing on HRV "HRV4Training has been instrumental in my coaching process since I have received valuable feedback on my client's response to their training. I also try and manage their training intensity around their recovery status" |
Claudio Avila Vazquez
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Claudio is an athlete and medicine student from Mexico
"I'm highly dedicated to my health and performance, and knowing where the line between fitness and health lies is incredibly important to me. As a medical student with a job, and a triathlete with a social life, knowing how my body reacts to my lifestyle and training is an incredibly important data point that helps me guide my training in respect to outside stressor like tests, homework, work, and late nights out with friends. I've been using HRV4Training for the last year to guide my training focus" |
Blaine Betzold
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Blaine is a provincial Para-Cycling Coach based in Canada "I have successfully been able to use HRV data to predict bad nerve pain days up to 4 days out in some athletes, using HRV4Training. This information helps with building efficient training plans and minimize downtime. I believe in the program and what it has done for me as a coach and my athletes in their progression towards being Olympic hopefuls." |
Sebastian Restrepo Gonzalez
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Sebastian is a coach from Colombia, currently working as a physical trainer for athletes, runners, cyclists and players in team sports such as soccer and basketball "I started using HRV4Training at the end of my professional training. My thesis was about the use of HRV to control training load in cyclists. As well as to evaluate the quality of sleep. It was a great discovery and it has allowed me to be more analytical with the training schedules. What is not evaluated is not controlled and HRV4Training allows me to evaluate and control." |
Charlie Hoolihan
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Charlie is the director of personal training at pelican athletic club. He has been using HRV to train clients and athletes for many years, with endurance athletes, during pregnancy, with Olympic weight lifters, and more. |
