A resting heart rate is the simplest way to gauge your overall health. Here’s what you should know about its normal range, ...

Whether due to stress or an intense cardio workout, most of us have felt our heart racing from time to time. A rise in your heart rate can be perfectly normal given outside circumstances. However, ...

Fitness trackers and smart watches are widely popular wearable devices that measure several types of health metrics, ...

Thanks to the proliferation of smartwatches and fitness trackers, it’s never been easier to log your heart rate while running: Simply don the device, start your workout, and watch those beats per ...

The fitness world is buzzing about a game-changing approach to heart health monitoring that goes beyond traditional metrics. Daily Heart Rate Per Step (DHRPS) combines two measurements most smartwatch ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you wear a fitness tracker, you’ve likely seen a stat labeled “HRV” pop up on your screen. But what does it mean, and does it ...