News UFC Mouthguards can now track heart rates

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This is ingenious.

As someone who regularly exercises and plays close attention to both my resting and active heart rates, I've always wondered "Exactly how high is their heartrate in the middle of a fight?"

The long-term usage of this will provide very interesting stats.

*Average heartrate when the fight begins. (How high does it get due to the hype of the moment?)

*Average heartrate at the end of a round, in comparison to the beginning of the next. (Heartrate recovery?)

*Average heartrate at the beginning of Round 2, 3, 4, & 5.

*Fighter with the lowest heartrate at the beginning of a fight.
*Fighter with the highest heartrate at the end of a 5 fight fight.

*What's the average heartrate of a fighter on top/bottom in the guard?

And it will be VERY interesting in seeing the heartrate of a fighter that finished a blitz, or of a fighter that got rocked.
 
So what are the results ? It's interesting
 
It's a cool metric but it needs to be a graph for the full fight, just putting up the stat at the start of a round is not too useful
 


This is ingenious.

As someone who regularly exercises and plays close attention to both my resting and active heart rates, I've always wondered "Exactly how high is their heartrate in the middle of a fight?"

The long-term usage of this will provide very interesting stats.

*Average heartrate when the fight begins. (How high does it get due to the hype of the moment?)

*Average heartrate at the end of a round, in comparison to the beginning of the next. (Heartrate recovery?)

*Average heartrate at the beginning of Round 2, 3, 4, & 5.

*Fighter with the lowest heartrate at the beginning of a fight.
*Fighter with the highest heartrate at the end of a 5 fight fight.

*What's the average heartrate of a fighter on top/bottom in the guard?

And it will be VERY interesting in seeing the heartrate of a fighter that finished a blitz, or of a fighter that got rocked.

The live audience being able to see fighters’ heart rate monitoring in real time would be incredibly interesting but at the same time I could see why athletes might prefer to keep this data close to the chest (no pun intended). From a legal privacy stand point, it still constitutes personal health information.

As far as strategy goes, it also gives away part of a fighter’s game. “Poker face” is a critical part or the arsenal, Hiding or playing off how hurt, tired or scared you are. knowing before the first round, who is freaked out and who’s cool as a cumber. Having a little cardio counter beside each name on the screen would be very cool, but I don’t see this going further than a fighter’s medical file unless consent is given to share it.
 
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