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What are the most useful or interesting things you’ve learned about yourself from using a fitness/health wearable? I love collecting data and looking at graphs for their own sake but sometimes find the analysis kind of boring: “you went really hard yesterday so you should take it easy” or “your sleep sucked because you went to bed at 3am.” The biggest one for me was discovering how even small amounts of alcohol immediately affect every metric and disrupt my sleep. But out of years of continuous data I’ve only had a few major insights like this.

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That's a great question. Some thoughts after using Oura for the past three years. 1. If I take a cold shower (2-4 mins) in the evening about two hours before sleeping, my resting heart rate drops -10 pbm to the default and I sleep better and get more deep sleep. 2. Same as you, my body does not want me to consume any alcohol and worst is in the evening. 3. Doing heavy workouts can have negative impact on my sleep quality especially if I do them late in the evening. 4. Using wearables can actually have negative impact on my sleep, especially if I'm already stressed out about something. 5. I get much better my sleep if I do a long walk with the doggie in the woods. Bonus: night photography is not good for the stats.

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What was very interesting for me to learn was that the pace I walk is really fast I always thought it was normal to walk that way but I have had complaints from friends that I walk too fast and I decided to actually track my pace and it was indeed true

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the difference in amount of steps between having an office job, wfh in the city and wfh upstate. just living in bk takes a bunch of steps but ironically (at least in my mind) living upstate, close to nature - i had to really think about getting steps in because it’s car for everything outside of recreation up there

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i have a really freaking low resting heart rate (48-52) idk what to do with this info tho, just interesting :)

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Was literally about to mention alcohol. Made me 10x more aware of its effects. Guess which day I had some wine…

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I learnt that getting hammered and singing karaoke is a really good workout.

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My VO2 is trash even when I’m working out regularly. (I think I need to incorporate more sprinting)

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i'm completely drained after my hot yoga class (more so than a HIIT class, or even a long run), but a surprising amount of time spent in hot yoga is in zone 1 for me (warm up, shavasana, etc.) feels like it should be close to 100% because i instantly start sweating when i walk in the room

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The alcohol one was a big insight, I wasn't a big drinker but the resting bpm change made me really think about it...I have since largely stopped drinking

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Hard agree with small amounts of alcohol effecting sleep. Honestly that in itself was worth it for me. Stopped drinking because of it Havent tried glucose monitoring but feel like that would have some really great insights on food sensitivity. For females the oura ring has a ton of data for cycles/ovulation.

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confirmed my suspicion that i was a lazy ass. other than that, long-term — clear relation between tracked amount of movement and mind health condition. however, no need to track that, i just figured out that if i mostly sit and stare at the screen for a week or so — i'll get in a very bad mood eventually.

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Cause I am asthmatic, I cant walk long distances without feeling breathless and my heart rate increases massively Wearing an Apple Watch has helped me track my heart rate everytime I take walks so I compare everytime to see progress

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- alcohol - 8 sleep (10% better recovery throughout the year compared to uncooled mattress)

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my wife's a doctor and gives me shit for tracking myself all the time. her take is that all the QS recommendations that come from the data are basically common-sense and the rest of the data is useless. if you just ask yourself "how do i feel" when you wake up, you'll get all the feedback you need

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The only thing I find quite useful is to see my heart rate / how hard I've worked during a workout. Seems basic (it is) but it makes me more consciously aware and so I'll push harder in a session

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alcohol as well, and working out in the evening/night actually helps me to sleep better - so i moved my gym sessions after 9pm

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one surprising discovery for me was how air quality affects metrics like vo2. Living in an environment with great air quality for even just two weeks can noticeably increase vo2 and fitness level for me

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Alcohol or food right before bed, even something small (an apple?) affects my sleep somehow

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I’m a newb to these having just picked up a Garmin watch about 10 days ago. It’s fascinating to me that my HR peaks after my workout not during it.

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