Heart rate monitoring involves tracking your heart rate throughout each day to get an idea of how different activities affect you. Your heart rate can give you some useful information that can help you avoid over-exerting yourself without realizing it and help prevent you from crashing.

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Monitoring your heart rate can be part of conserving your energy and pacing when you have Long COVID. Research evidence shows that it can help people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which has similarities with Long COVID, to help reduce severity and duration of post-exertional malaise (PEM). Please see recommendations for rest and pacing by the Canadian Guideline for Post-COVID-19 Condition (CAN-PCC) for suggestions on self-monitoring heart rate under “Implement considerations.”

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To learn more about the push/crash cycle, click here.