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Man, thank you for this tidbit! It hadn’t occurred to me to look at HRV from that perspective! I’ll be keeping an eye on that together with volume and intensity now!
I have a Whoop, which I love, but heavily geared to cardio as exercise for various reasons. Totally fine and I track it but also recovery, sleep, hrv etc...
Expounding on Hawkmoon above, it's not perfect but HRV is a solid indicator of needing more rest/recovery and cns getting low. It's not the ultimate but a fool in managing fatigue and seeing where you are at. What's nice about it too is that as opposed to just weightlifting metrics it's incorporating everything and health readings in your life (ie get 3hrs of sleep nightly for a week and let me know how your recovery is under normal volume, drink alcohol and late dinners, get sick....). Good tool and this is where I use it most in strength/lifting pursuits.