What a session looks like will vary depending on the program selected and your customized training protocol.
FIT+:
During your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) training sessions you will log into the HRV app, on your phone, and place the CorSense on your finger. You’re your screen will show your HRV and Heart Rate scores as well as a breathing pacer for you to follow on the screen. You will be able to edit your breathing pacer settings to determine the inhale and exhale pattern that works best for you. Repeated practice of this paced breathing will condition your body and brain to better respond to, and recover from, internal and external stressors.
Elite:
The Elite program combines the HRV training sessions outlined in FIT+ and includes a neurofeedback component. During your neurofeedback sessions, and customized training protocol, you’ll receive either audio or visual feedback. Clients can search YouTube for the content that interests them during each training session. Here is an outline of the neurofeedback experience:
· Once you’re hooked up to the brainwave sensor and headset, you will watch or listen to a video of your choice.
· The headband and sensor monitor your brainwave activity in real-time and “talk” to the application, telling it when to play optimally.
· The video will play in full brightness when your brainwave activity is moving toward a healthier range, which will be established just for you.
· When your brainwaves re not firing within the target range the video will fade to black.
· This disruption is the brain’s cue that it has deviated from transitioning to a more optimal state.
· Because the brain craves rhythm, it is motivated to determine how to keep the video playing in full brightness.
· Within milliseconds, the brain corrects itself. This feedback loop happens repeatedly during your session.
Premier:
The Premier program combines the neurofeedback component outlined in the Elite program and includes enhanced HRV training. During your session you’ll log onto predownloaded software on the laptop provided for training and attach the breathing belt and finger sensor. Depending on your stage of the program, your screen will show different datapoints (i.e., Coherence, Respiration Rate, Amplitude, Volume). With the guidance of your performance coach, you’ll train your way through the different stages of HRV training.