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HRV Team – Training Teams For Resilience Under Stress

 

HRV Team

HRV Team is a powerful tool for instructors or trainers who want to improve the effectiveness of a team in high pressure situations. HRV Team opens a window into the stress-response system of a team by showing the beat-by-beat heart rate of each team member. This beat-by-beat pattern gives receive instantaneous information about how each team member is responding to stress so that the team can respond more effectively as individuals and as a group.

Stress and Strain

Stress comes from our environment. To respond to stress we must activate our sympathetic nervous system. This causes strain on our body.

Stress –> Sympathetic Activation –> Strain

We cannot escape from stress because it is a part of life. We can learn to regulate our level of sympathetic activation so that we respond instead of react. And we can reduce the strain that comes dealing with stress. By managing our stress we can improve our health, our performance at work, sports, and school, and our relationships.

HRV Team is a tool that augments stress-management and resilience training for several people at once. This will allow an instructor, trainer, or coach to observe which trainees are using stress-management techniques effectively. It also allows the instructor to record a scenario with heart rate data superimposed on top of the camera view. This will allow team members to review the scenario and observe how their nervous system responded as the scenario unfolded.

HRV Team will help you learn the following skills:

  • Recover – how to shift quickly to a state in which you recover from strain and recharge
  • Ready – maintain a level of activation that adapts to a dynamic situation
  • Reset – reduce excessive sympathetic activation in seconds
  • Recondition – reduce excessive reactions that have been conditioned to stressful situations

Together these skills increase your effectiveness under pressure and enable you to sustain a high level of intensity. Each of the skills creates a certain type of pattern in the heart trace. These patterns vary from individual to individual. The process for using HRV Team is:

  1. Use HRV Team to identify each student’s heart trace signature for each of the skills: Recovery and Reset.
  2. Instruct the students in the use of these skills and test their ability in practice sessions or scenario training.
  3. Use HRV Team to check your progress of your students and give instructions tailored to each student’s progress.

HRV Team is a powerful tool for augmenting stress-reduction, mindfulness, and resiliency training programs. It is meant to be used with the guidance of a professional who is familiar with stress and heart-rate changes under stress, preferably one trained in the use of the app by Ibernetics, LLC.

HRV Train as been tested with the following heart rate monitors:

  • Zephyr HxM Smart – this is the only monitor that transmits activity data to the app
  • Polar H7 and H10
  • FirstBeat

HRV Team developed by Ibernetics, LLC

iOS programming by Owen L Brown at www.back-40.com