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 get that HERE.

SORCE is grounded in modern science and tracks a biomarker called heart rate variability (HRV) as a verifiable indicator of stress and energy levels in an individual’s nervous system.

SORCE gives you the ability to use HRV as a tool for managing stress, increasing energy, and revitalizing your body without putting it at risk for burnout.

For example, if a person’s HRV indicates a high degree of stress and lack of recovery they will get a “RECOVER” HRV score. If a person is somewhat recovered but not ready for higher intensity they get a “MAINTAIN”. If a person is fully recovered and ready to push the limits they will get a “PUSH”.

Using this information, you tailor your lifestyle according to your energetic needs and modulate your choices based on your HRV.

Once you are giving your body a lifestyle it can cope with, your health and performance will improve.

It’s hard for anyone to judge whether they are under or over doing it in their life. While the first signs lead to fatigue, brain fog, disappointing performance, the second can result in increased sick days through colds, persistent fatigue or worst case, substantial periods of layoff from work and life.

The easiest way to start using HRV is to take a measurement using SORCE every morning, then your day as normal, according to your own body’s advice.

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, the SORCE app 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.

Go to the iTunes Store to download the SORCE App.

You will receive your app code after you purchase a SORCE Membership.

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.  

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.

• 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 super seriously and make it clear to all employers 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