Feeling like a stud the day after a hangover

[joosttx]

Over the Christmas holidays, I indulged a little more than I should of a couple of times. Now two drinks are overindulging for me. Regardless, a couple of mornings I woke up and spent the rest of the day at half speed.

I have a Whoop which measures my HRV and during the hangover days my HVR is wrecked and my recovery is near death. However, I noticed that the day after my hangover day my recovery and HRV are through the roof-way higher than my normal HRV.

I hypothesize that whatever mechanisms that are helping get over the hangover are up-regulated and have not normalized even after the hangover is gone leading to a supercharged HRV.

Has anyone else ever experience this?

[Louis]

I can't help primarily because I've never heard the term "HRV" before. I Googled it, so now I know what it stands for, but it isn't obvious to me what the difference it between HRV (time between heartbeats) and heart rate (say, beats / minute, which will allow you to calculate the time between heatbeats).

Can anyone out there provide more details?

I found this:

What is HRV?

HRV is simply a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat. This variation is controlled by a primitive part of the nervous system called the autonomic nervous system (ANS). It works regardless of our desire and regulates, among other things, our heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and digestion. The ANS is subdivided into two large components, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system, also known as the fight-or-flight mechanism and the relaxation response.

And of course, there's this:

[bikinchris]

Or the extra day of rest is doing it.

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by bikinchris

Or the extra day of rest is doing it.

nope. that is not it. I had plenty of extra days of resting and no stellar results. Its something unique to a hangover.

[AngryScientist]

my unscientific field experience agrees.

if i hit it hard at happy hour(s) and suffer through a hangover on day2, i really feel like an iron man on day3.

i've got no data to back this up, but my seat of the pants meters agree.

[Vientomas]

Cheers!

[kppolich]

beer or liquor?

a few beers usually carbs me up nice in the day or two after for some solid fuel.

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by kppolich

beer or liquor?

a few beers usually carbs me up nice in the day or two after for some solid fuel.

wine and liquor and beer

[jghall]

Originally Posted by joosttx

wine and liquor and beer

Nothing really to add, but good for you going all in.

[Louis]

Originally Posted by joosttx

wine and liquor and beer

Beginning of a Joost training ride:

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by Louis

Beginning of a Joost training ride:

Ugh I’ve been there. That’s basically every dawnpatrol

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by jghall

Nothing really to add, but good for you going all in.

If we are at a dinner party. I’ll have a cocktail fb a glass or two of wine over 4 hrs. That my standard m.o. which typically hurts the next day.

[pbarry]

[adamhell]

sometimes the right amount of wine or beer the night before is great for the next day's ride. very slippery slope though.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by joosttx

wine and liquor and beer

Oh My...("channeling lions and tigers and bears", oh my

Alcohol is a poison..the body reacts by fighting that poison..takes a day or 2..

Why a little alcohol isn't a bad thing..keeps the body strong by making it fight!!

Not sure how serious I am about that..