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Question for oura and whoop folks: Do yall feel that your scores correlates closely with how you actually feel every morning?
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@cbxm
27 days in with whoop: yeah, generally. some caveats. I was sick recently so I got a few extra long sleeps and low-activity days strung together, so my "recovery" was high, but I still felt like crap. so, kind of subjective there, but I think it does a good job of telling me how good my "recovery effort" was, even if that's not my "readiness score". like, 87% recovery isn't that I'm 87% recovered, but that I did 87% of the best I could do to recover that day/night, even if there's more to go. and HRV is probably a good enough "readiness score" on its own, so I don't expect whoop to run a fancy calculation for me.
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@dwayne
cool cool.. what does you doing 87% of your best to recover mean exactly? like you spent the recommended time sleeping overall + recommended time sleeping in each of the sleep stages? (even tho that may not have you recovered 87% necessarily)
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time for a special edition of A Screenshot Says a Thousand Words: first up, Stress Monitor and the Sleep event view. this measures "strain" throughout the day and shows your sleep block in the chart too you can see I have a spike early in the night as I get comfortable, drift, and startle awake, which is quite stressful — and a common theme in my charts. I also appear to wake up in the middle of this particular night, and you can see that on the Sleep view too, which charts heart rate directly. stress is correlated with heart rate, but you can see they don't map 1:1
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Sleep and Recovery are separate scores, too here, on that same Saturday morning, I slept in a ton and still only reached a 72% Recovery score (I was still fairly sick, but coming out of it) and you can see HRV pinned under my score there, which is one of many stats on that screen
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@cbxm
and here's their definition of recovery:
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@cbxm
so you can see, really, that it's *quite* possible for this recovery score to be nuanced and maybe pretty good (especially now that you know it's not even really that much of a sleep metric). but the numbers can't be interpreted on their own, i had to add my context to them for them to make any sense. like... it's not a report card. it's just more data for you to think about and consider, and whoop records A LOT of data, in high enough fidelity the data is even useful, generally. and, tbh, i'm *loving* mine, even if i'm basically only using it for the sleep stuff right now. it tracks sleep really well automatically, but i get even more accurate stats if i start a "sleep activity" when i get into bed to scroll my phone for an hour.
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the pretty highly detailed data are the thing that i like most about the whoop. the app and its metrics feel really well thought out, and the device itself seems to be accurate and reliable (i've only had one blank section on my heart rate chart in the entire 27 days, it's pretty impressive) my needs were low (basic sleep tracking has been figured out for a while now), but i knew i wasn't going to be happy with a bunch of vague metrics that i couldn't drill down on. i don't know how the experience is with the other big trackers (Oura, Fitbit, etc) but i do want to stress that whoop has felt like the real deal in that regard.
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