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, ...

To live is to have a heartbeat, which is why it makes sense for us living things to have a good understanding of our ticker. It’s well-known science that our hearts beat faster when we exercise and ...

Your resting heart rate is like a window to your general physical health over the long term. When we’re talking about resting heart rate, lower is always better, and the benefits of lowering your ...

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 ...