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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course. My resting heart rate goes up when I am stressed at work and goes down when I am more relaxed. When I have long periods of it being higher it is usually during times when I am not handling work stress well. And it is almost always at its lowest when I am on vacation.

I see the same patterns for my heart rate variability on my fitbit. It tends to go up when I am more relaxed and my resting heart rate is lower, and down when I am not handling stress well. The only things that I have observed have a stronger influence on my RHR is when I drink alcohol or when I am sick.[/quote]

Thank you, this is very helpful.  The effect of stress on heart rate is very interesting.  Although the 5-6 point increase I’m identifying associated with a stressful work week is low risk, there have been previous times in past 5 years where my fitness was lower and stress was higher.  Love that I can monitor this and take action to lower stress.  I think I mostly thought of the FitBit to track exercise/miles/target heart rate while working out, this ability to identify some impact of stress is very valuable.  I am a person in a high stress high reward job so I always “push through” and really didn’t connect the work related stress to my fitness.  Bit of an epiphany for me and reminder to consider stress levels.[/quote]

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