It’s crazy how much it effects everything on my Garmin to the point I don’t want to wear it whilst drinking. It’s like having a digital conscience. I was trying to enjoy a friends boozy wedding and my Garmin thought the end was nigh my stress levels were elevated for about 10 hours. Body battery was about 28 AFTER sleep!!!
Baha Digital conscience! That is so well stated. That’s an awesome point. And that is a solid failure body battery score! Hats off to you, you must have done it right that weekend haha
I noticed my sleep is pretty bad when I’m having more than 2 drinks. So even if I slept relatively well and same amount of sleep, the body battery doesn’t load normally. The body stress data is rising and my body temp also overnight. I love a good steak but the datas overnight go up to the roof and the recovery is pretty bad. Great intake, thanks for sharing
Just got a venu 2 and find the body battery very different to my forerunner 45. Low stress on the 45 charged me during the day, but not on the Venu 2. Even with good HRV, I struggle to charge during the day!
Yes! Very true. The algorithm has been updated significantly but also the Venu 2 has a much better heart rate sensor so should more accurately track the needed details that go into the calculations. It’s will Also normalize a little bit over time as you wear it for a couple of weeks. It always takes some time to fully settled in and does not carry over any previous tracking from another watch. It will smooth out!
@@Natastrophe007 yes totally. It will still be different from the 45 bc of some of those factors, but will be likely very different once it settles into a grove with you. Thanks!
@@fitgearhunter Hope it does settle, last two days are mostly yellow during the day on the stress graph. oddly the first night I got it, I was chilled that evening and low stress, blue all evening and it did not charge at all. Only charges when I sleep!
You should think about looking at the fitbit platform for sleep tracking. The Quantified Scientist testing seems to indicate they have the most accurate wrist based sleep tracking. HRV seems to be accurate, as it showed a decline (increase?) in my HRV after I drank too much.
Yes I’ve seen his reviews on it. Unfortunately with Fitbit it continue to give me high sleep scores even on nights when I totally deserved a failing grade. I would have Whoop and Garmin yelling at me that I was near dying and Fitbit saying I got a “75“ out of 100. Not worthwhile unfortunately! Really appreciate the comment and may look at them again in the future!
very good videos, nobody does these analyzes to know what suits each person. For crossfit what would you use then? Garmin or which? I ask because many Garmin things are more about running
Garmin for sure, if you can afford at least the 255. Many of the Garmin lower cost options don’t include advanced training analytics. Otherwise the Polar Pacer for $200 budget limitation is a great watch. And both for CrossFit style workouts. Thanks!
Just thinking if actually throughout a day the watch bouncing to much and this may impact the overall measurement? Currently I am using a Polar V2. Definitely after alco sleep recovery is poor. Some advantage when the watch is measuring hrv during the night is that the movements are limited so I suppose this may be slightly better score to rely on? Regards!
Yes the 955 offers a ton of metrics on the training side! But you are right, body battery continues to be the most simple and easy to view display of how your internal reserves are holding up
Is the garmin body battery reliable ? I m confused between the pixel eatch 3 snd Garmin. Do you think the body battery is better than readiness score given by fitbit ?
@@arjunmohandas8870 I definitely do. Sorry for the delay in responding. I think the body battery from Garmin is superior mainly because it's 24 seven tracking, and writing the scores typically are summary of nightly information. Garmin also has the summary of nightly information as well, buton that front the readiness score systems out there do a little bit better job.
are you sure that sugary drinks and gluten had that much of an effect? I never observe a bad recovery just because i ate gluten, but alcohol alone absolutely destroys my recovery and sleep
Oh it was def alcohol too. I mention it along the way but didn’t want to highlight it too much. It’s was def that, with a slight contribution from food
Haha yes I remember it doing a pretty good job w that too. Oura just always felt so Zen and nice w communicating. Like “you’re not a lazy piece of poop, you just had a bad night - you’ll get better” :)
It’s crazy how much it effects everything on my Garmin to the point I don’t want to wear it whilst drinking. It’s like having a digital conscience. I was trying to enjoy a friends boozy wedding and my Garmin thought the end was nigh my stress levels were elevated for about 10 hours. Body battery was about 28 AFTER sleep!!!
Baha Digital conscience! That is so well stated. That’s an awesome point. And that is a solid failure body battery score! Hats off to you, you must have done it right that weekend haha
😢if I was at 28 after sleep I would be happy. I’m at 10 this morning 😢
I noticed my sleep is pretty bad when I’m having more than 2 drinks. So even if I slept relatively well and same amount of sleep, the body battery doesn’t load normally. The body stress data is rising and my body temp also overnight. I love a good steak but the datas overnight go up to the roof and the recovery is pretty bad. Great intake, thanks for sharing
Yep - hear you on all of that - alcohol causes a major physiological lag on rejuvenation. Completely agree.
Just got a venu 2 and find the body battery very different to my forerunner 45. Low stress on the 45 charged me during the day, but not on the Venu 2. Even with good HRV, I struggle to charge during the day!
Yes! Very true. The algorithm has been updated significantly but also the Venu 2 has a much better heart rate sensor so should more accurately track the needed details that go into the calculations. It’s will Also normalize a little bit over time as you wear it for a couple of weeks. It always takes some time to fully settled in and does not carry over any previous tracking from another watch. It will smooth out!
@@fitgearhunter Ah, I see! I was a bit worried, as when I measure my HRV its usually around 40-60ms, so pretty good!
@@Natastrophe007 yes totally. It will still be different from the 45 bc of some of those factors, but will be likely very different once it settles into a grove with you. Thanks!
@@fitgearhunter Hope it does settle, last two days are mostly yellow during the day on the stress graph. oddly the first night I got it, I was chilled that evening and low stress, blue all evening and it did not charge at all. Only charges when I sleep!
@@Natastrophe007 Hey! Update please - working better now?
You should think about looking at the fitbit platform for sleep tracking. The Quantified Scientist testing seems to indicate they have the most accurate wrist based sleep tracking. HRV seems to be accurate, as it showed a decline (increase?) in my HRV after I drank too much.
Yes I’ve seen his reviews on it. Unfortunately with Fitbit it continue to give me high sleep scores even on nights when I totally deserved a failing grade. I would have Whoop and Garmin yelling at me that I was near dying and Fitbit saying I got a “75“ out of 100. Not worthwhile unfortunately! Really appreciate the comment and may look at them again in the future!
very good videos, nobody does these analyzes to know what suits each person. For crossfit what would you use then? Garmin or which? I ask because many Garmin things are more about running
Garmin for sure, if you can afford at least the 255. Many of the Garmin lower cost options don’t include advanced training analytics. Otherwise the Polar Pacer for $200 budget limitation is a great watch. And both for CrossFit style workouts. Thanks!
Great! You are super productive!
Ha! Just catching up! Thanks, man
does garmin vivomove sport tracks all metrics in your video?
Hi! Thanks a lot for this video! Did I get it right that Whoop is basically no better than Garmin in any way?
Just thinking if actually throughout a day the watch bouncing to much and this may impact the overall measurement? Currently I am using a Polar V2. Definitely after alco sleep recovery is poor. Some advantage when the watch is measuring hrv during the night is that the movements are limited so I suppose this may be slightly better score to rely on? Regards!
No most often you sleep so soundly any of those watches will keep up with the tracking just fine.
Good stuff, confirms that Body Battery is one of the most useful metrics. The 955 has a ton more metrics but maybe the Venu 2 is all I need ;-)
Yes the 955 offers a ton of metrics on the training side! But you are right, body battery continues to be the most simple and easy to view display of how your internal reserves are holding up
Is the garmin body battery reliable ? I m confused between the pixel eatch 3 snd Garmin. Do you think the body battery is better than readiness score given by fitbit ?
@@arjunmohandas8870 I definitely do. Sorry for the delay in responding. I think the body battery from Garmin is superior mainly because it's 24 seven tracking, and writing the scores typically are summary of nightly information. Garmin also has the summary of nightly information as well, buton that front the readiness score systems out there do a little bit better job.
@@fitgearhunter Thanks for the reply. It helps
are you sure that sugary drinks and gluten had that much of an effect? I never observe a bad recovery just because i ate gluten, but alcohol alone absolutely destroys my recovery and sleep
Oh it was def alcohol too. I mention it along the way but didn’t want to highlight it too much. It’s was def that, with a slight contribution from food
Because not everyone has the same tolerance for gluten. Surely you can digest it more than another person.
@@francobellomo9979 no I think it was just the alcohol :/
Max HR 231!?!?
I thought the same.... no way he had 231.
Oura tells you too, in no uncertain terms 😂
Haha yes I remember it doing a pretty good job w that too. Oura just always felt so Zen and nice w communicating. Like “you’re not a lazy piece of poop, you just had a bad night - you’ll get better” :)