Go to the iTunes Store to download the SORCE App. In order to unlock all its functions, you must first receive a SORCE app code. You can contact us for a demo HERE.

Tracking HRV helps gauge recovery from previous day’s stress, enabling personalized lifestyle adjustments based on energetic needs. Adapting to a sustainable lifestyle improves health and performance. Recognizing signs of overexertion, such as fatigue and brain fog, prevents negative outcomes like increased sick days or prolonged work and life disruptions. Start by measuring HRV with SORCE each morning and adjust your day accordingly.

Heart rate variability, or HRV for short, describes the way your heart beat varies – both at rest and during exercise. Contrary to popular belief, the healthy heart does not beat like a metronome but is constantly changing the time between beats in a rhythmic way. These changes are driven by the nervous system, constantly trying to find the most efficient way for the body to operate. The fact that the nervous system makes itself visible through HRV makes the heart a wonderful barometer of how hard your body is trying to preserve its equilibrium.

HRV has been used in hospitals for many years, mostly to help very sick patients whose beats are very regular, with little HRV, and has also been used in high-end systems to help elite athletes. The widespread availability of heart rate monitor chest straps and the computing power packed into an iPhone mean that competitive & recreational athletes can now benefit from the big improvements in training effectiveness that HRV monitoring brings.

In the past, only doctors and professional athletes had the luxury of using HRV. However, SORCE is an easy to use product that allows the benefits of HRV to be gained by anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch and a desire to increase their health and vitality.

Data driven = objectively monitoring your level of recovery so you know if you should “spend” or “save” the energetic capital you have been given that day.Energetic stock market analogy

Human centered = taking a curious and compassionate approach to attaining your goals through the in-app coaching you are given and through the interactions in the community. This is a safe space to explore and be where you are at. Time to release the fear that you are going to fall behind if you slow down here and there. You are not a robot. You are made of organic matter that needs recovery to unlock potential. SORCE will help you time your efforts to precision to you can be more vital through every aspect of your life.

SORCE’s mission is to regenerate human energy… by regenerate we mean the ability to reconfigure, to revive and to renew people in a holistic and data driven way. Which we know is incredibly powerful in a world where over 73% of people report experiencing burnout.

We specifically help organizations regenerate human energy by getting upstream on the issue of mismanaged workplace stress.

We do this by objectively measuring the nervous system of culture using HRV technology. Keeping all employees’ privacy private, our team analytics showcase what teams are prime for peak and what teams are trending towards burnout.

• There is a difference between stress and burnout. Stress is not an inherently bad thing… you need it in order to get better, stronger, faster at anything you are trying to achieve. But when the stress goes unchecked for too long, you move from this sense of over-engagement (stress) to disengagement (burnout). And burnout is an umbrella term that has a series of symptoms attached to it.

• Being burned out means feeling empty and mentally exhausted, devoid of motivation, and beyond caring. People experiencing burnout often don’t see any hope of positive change in their situations. If excessive stress feels like you’re drowning in responsibilities, burnout is a sense of being all dried up.

• Good news, burnout is reversible! It is just about giving yourself the support you need.

Go to the iTunes Store to download the SORCE App. You will need a code to unlock the app. Book a demo HERE to talk about options.

You will receive your app code after you purchase a SORCE Membership through one of our partners or your organization launches SORCE. 

You can take multiple scores during a day and save them, but only the last score you save on any one day will appear in your Trends.  

There are many different ways to measure HRV. Some products have you wear a piece of hardware all day long and monitor you over a 24 hour period in effort to see how “ready” you are for challenge and demand. And although this is a fine way of determining “readiness” we know most people do not wear another “thing” all day long.

Therefore, we have elected to use a scientifically validated “ultra-short HRV recording” that has been proven reliable and effective when you use certain controls. Those controls that we use include habituating the HRV Assessment into your morning routine, controlling for breath rate, before you ingest caffeine or stress your system in a significant way. When all of these controls are in place, a 1-min reading is enough time to get an accurate assessment?

You need to think of an HRV measurement more like a blood pressure than an HR measurement (in fact HRV and blood pressure are regulated by exactly the same parts of the nervous system). Many people have heard of ‘white coat hypertension’ – that’s when your blood pressure is higher in the doctor’s office simply because you are anxious. That same anxiety or lack of relaxation will also lower your HRV. We strongly recommend doing one reading and not repeating without leaving a 5-10 min break if you really think the first measurement was wrong.

The breathing rate is also very important for consistency, as explained in the following quote from Dr. Liz Miller, a former neurosurgeon, psychologist & author: The emphasis is getting people to breathe right, which maximizes HRV because breathing profoundly affects HRV – Heart Rate Variation is largely due to the changes that occur during breathing – breathe in – Heart Rate goes up – breathe out – Heart Rate goes down. These changes are healthy, normal and partly relate to the mechanics and partly to the autonomic (sympathetic and parasympathetic) nervous system. The greater the changes between breathing in and breathing out, the healthier and fitter your heart and lungs and autonomic system.

In other words, heart rate variability measures the amount your heart rate changes from moment to moment. Most of this difference is due to breathing patterns. Any change in mental state, even if you are an Indian meditation guru will change your pattern of breathing – the two are inextricably linked! Anxiety produces shallow fast breathing, calm produces slow deeper breathing. The slower and more consistently you breathe, the greater your HRV at any moment, up to a maximum that relates to your own personal fitness and gives you a HRV Score.

Inconsistent breathing, even slight, profoundly affects HRV. Although most people learn subliminally that to get their best reading, they need to follow the animation on the screen, and breathe in a slow and measured fashion, it is possible to mess with your HRV by fractionally altering your breathing. This will happen if you are anxious, tired or otherwise stressed.

From a user point of view – taking your HRV Score needs to be a peaceful ritual. You sit and relax for a couple of minutes, watch the graphic on the screen and then when you are feeling calm, join in breathing with it and then when you are happy your breathing is nicely synchronized, switch on the device and take your HRV Score.

HRV is a sensitive sally and although it is not your heart rate, it is connected to your heart rate. So when you stimulate your heart Rate through the use of caffeine you can’t get a clean HRV reading. The way to get a clean reliable HRV reading is to take it shortly upon waking, after you use the restroom before ingesting caffeine or stressing your system in any way (that includes looking at email or working out).

HRV is looking at the load your nervous system is carrying. One thing we know puts a significant load on your system is alcohol. For as fun as it is… alcohol is a toxin and puts a fair amount of stress on your liver to detoxify it out of your body. So when your resources are low and you have a recover day, it is in your best interest to refrain from drinking and save your body from the load. On your push days, your system is more resourced to combat the negative effects of alcohol. So if you are going to drink, your push days are the better days to do so.

• The day will come when SORCE tells you to PUSH/RECOVER and you don’t feel like it.
• 80% of the time you can guess your score
• 20% of the time you can’t… this is where you gain an edge
• Follow SORCE as much as you can
• If you go rogue, cool… just be aware of the result that choice created.

It is very important that all SORCE users know that your private information is never seen by anyone else. We take privacy seriously and make it clear to all users that we will never disclose or expose individuals in any way, shape or form. The only way others at your organization will see your personal data is if you share it in the team’s social channels. Leadership only sees team data in aggregate, keeping everyone’s privacy private so they can do a better job at helping their team stay out of any burnout cycles.

• SORCE’s score will be different from all the other players in the market
• All of us are calculating readiness in different ways
• Our algo is super simple and is only looking at HRV where others are looking at multiple bio-markers to determine readiness.
• Our biggest encouragement is to see what platform works the best for you.
• Over time it is our intent to integrate with some other key players