Players' Heartbeats

[Zippo]

I see they're now showing Rory's heartbeat from Whoop. Frankly, as long as it's beating, I really don't GAS what their heartbeat is at any particular moment. How about you?

Edited September 3, 2021 by Zippo

[woodzie264]

I voted No, because I don’t want to “see them all” per the YES option, but it would be interesting to see in the bigger moments

[StuM]

Vote No….I simply have no interest in knowing.

[Zippo]

Sorry about messing up the title.

[iacas]

Why not? it's interesting. I've seen it on a few LPGA Tour broadcasts, and you can see it going up when they face a tricky shot. That's cool.

They played a literal heartbeat sound in Tiger Woods the video game under pressure situations… because it's interesting.

[Never3putt]

How the body reacts to pressure, even at the elite level, is interesting.  It's not something that I want to see shown as a matter of routine on the television broadcasts week after week, however.

[woodzie264]

28 minutes ago, iacas said:

Why not? it's interesting. I've seen it on a few LPGA Tour broadcasts, and you can see it going up when they face a tricky shot. That's cool.

They played a literal heartbeat sound in Tiger Woods the video game under pressure situations… because it's interesting.

good memory! I forgot about that 😃

[iacas]

41 minutes ago, Never3putt said:

How the body reacts to pressure, even at the elite level, is interesting.  It's not something that I want to see shown as a matter of routine on the television broadcasts week after week, however.

So don't look at it.

When I've seen it used, too, it's not "a matter of routine." They break it out for a few shots here and there.

I'd love to see it for an F1 driver, for example, even if I could have it on as a piece of telemetry the whole race.

[ChetlovesMer]

I'd vote "Sure, more information is better." If I'm not interested I won't look. 

[Zippo]

From what I've seen so far, Rory's heartbeat goes up a bit when he swings a club. Big surprise. It goes down after he's swung the club. Another surprise.  It moves little when he's putting and the activity is lower. Again, yawn. He doesn't stand there all nervous and sweaty with his heartbeat racing before a particularly tough putt - he just goes about his business and his heartbeat moves up and down a bit with his level of activity. As does mine.

[iacas]

2 minutes ago, Zippo said:

From what I've seen so far, Rory's heartbeat goes up a bit when he swings a club. Big surprise. It goes down after he's swung the club. Another surprise.  It moves little when he's putting and the activity is lower. Again, yawn. He doesn't stand there all nervous and sweaty with his heartbeat racing before a particularly tough putt - he just goes about his business and his heartbeat moves up and down a bit with his level of activity. As does mine.

And I've seen on the LPGA Tour a player's heart beat sit at 86 for a bit, then as they hit a shot on a par three with a pond, and their ball just clears the pond, it get up to 128 before slowly, slowly dropping back down to 90 or so.

It's the second round (or first round), so we're not really in too many "pressure" situations yet.

[DeadMan]

I like seeing information like that. It's interesting to see them as they stand over a tough shot, or if they have 1st tee jotters or what have you. I know there are situations where my heart beats faster, so it's good to see that it happens to the pros as well.

[Zippo]

1 minute ago, iacas said:

And I've seen on the LPGA Tour a player's heart beat sit at 86 for a bit, then as they hit a shot on a par three with a pond, and their ball just clears the pond, it get up to 128 before slowly, slowly dropping back down to 90 or so.

It's the second round (or first round), so we're not really in too many "pressure" situations yet.

I hear what you're saying.

My heart rate goes down slowly after sudden intense activity, too. I figure it's because my body would "rather" drop levels slowly just in case the activity should resume quickly as opposed to having to ramp up from rest levels each time. To me, none of that is unexpected. 

 

[TL308]

Kind of interesting to see the heartbeat but it is not something I see being heavily desired.