Heart rate recovery, or HRR, is the heart-rate drop in the first minute after exercise. Body Insights shows that drop in beats per minute. Its label also accounts for workout effort.
Body Insights also builds a 0 to 100 Recovery Analysis score from available supported signals. The score can use one-minute HRR and next-morning HRV. Next-morning sleeping heart rate and optional glucose can also contribute. The later Electrolyte Signal stays separate.
What Body Insights shows after a workout
The workout view puts the main result next to its supporting rows. Read them together to see what is behind the number.
Recovery Analysis
What you seeA status and, when data is ready, a score from 0 to 100
What it tells youA quick summary of the supported recovery inputs available for that workout.
Cardiac Recovery
What you seeA label such as Good or Slow, plus the drop in beats per minute
What it tells youHow much your heart rate fell during the first minute. Workout effort affects the interpretation.
Next Morning
What you seeHRV Change as a percentage
What it tells youHow next-morning HRV moved after the workout.
Glucose recovery
What you seeAn optional recovery pattern from the first three hours
What it tells youWhether the available glucose trace returned toward its pre-workout level.
Electrolyte Signal
What you seeA signal badge and, when needed, resting heart rate, HRV, and HRR rows
What it tells youA separate later check with its own guidance. It does not change the Recovery Analysis score.
Example: slow cardiac recovery after a hard workout
A hard workout shows Cardiac Recovery as Slow at 10 bpm. The next-morning HRV change is -18%. The optional glucose trace has returned to normal.
The headline can still say Recovery Impaired. The lower HRV and slow one-minute drop remain important. Keep the next workout easy. Then compare it with another hard session under similar conditions.
When each recovery result appears
The rows do not all arrive at once. Each one uses a time window tied to the workout.
- Workout ends. Body Insights records the workout and starts the recovery windows.
- About one minute later. Cardiac Recovery uses the heart-rate drop when Apple Health has a supported sample.
- During the first three hours. An optional glucose trace can show how the reading moved toward its pre-workout level.
- About 3.5 hours later. The separate Electrolyte Signal checks available resting heart rate, HRV, and HRR data.
- The next morning. Fresh HRV and sleeping heart-rate data can update the Recovery Analysis score.
How to use your recovery result
Compare similar workouts
Compare hard sessions with other hard sessions. Do the same for easy sessions. Heart-rate recovery depends in part on how hard the workout was.
Read the rows with the score
The same score can come from different available inputs. Start with Cardiac Recovery and Next Morning. Then read the optional glucose and Electrolyte Signal details.
Wait for the morning update
New next-morning Apple Health data can change the result. Check the workout again after it arrives.
What changes when data is missing
You do not need a CGM. Without glucose data, the score can still use one-minute HRR. It can also use next-morning HRV and sleeping heart rate when those samples are available.
A missing sample stays missing instead of becoming zero. The workout view shows Analysis Pending until a supported recovery input is ready. The separate Electrolyte Signal stays empty if its later data is unavailable.
See what changed after your workout
Body Insights keeps the score, heart-rate drop, next-morning change, and available context together in your workout view.
See my post-workout recovery