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How to determine my (sleep) chronotype?

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over 1 year ago

Depending on the method used there are 4 or 6 chronotypes, which indicate at what times your cicadian rhythm cycles start and finish 

To achieve a better sleepscore it's important to know your individual chronotype, so you go to sleep at the time that best fits your rhythm. This will should help to achieve better cycles of sleep.

For example a morning person should avoid following the sleep times/cycle of a night owl, as it would be harder to fall asleep and your alarm may be set to wake you up in the middle of REM cycle.

Can Garmin sleepscore algorithm help determine my chronotype, and tell me what time is best for me to try and go to sleep? 

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Garmin does many things well but sleep tracking and sleep analysis is not one of them. Garmin is at the bottom of the list in sleep accuracy in wearables. The sleep coach will only tell you if you need more or less sleep based on your sleep score, it doesn't tell you when you should go to sleep or wake up.  If you want a more accurate analysis and something that will actually give you your chronotype after wearing it for 3 months, the Oura ring will do this for you. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 7995309

    350€ for the Oura plus 6€ per month in order to determine something that most people know anyway.

    The sleep tracking on the Epix is quite ok, and as it seems not only for me. I'm not claiming that it is perfect or that it can't be better, though.

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  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to schmjoe

    Yes Oura is pricey, but it will give her an answer to the question she asked about her chronotype and it will give her direction as to what time is the best for her to go to sleep, Garmin will not. Further, it would give her much more reliable sleep and recovery data. I also agree that most people already know this. Garmin has done work on their sleep data but they have a long way to go, they know they still have big issues with sleep, the continued issues with false naps or actual naps that don't get recorded, deep sleep being detected when people are up out of bed or just lying awake, it is a mess. Bad data in = bad out for all the other metrics that use the sleep. Given the issues Garmin has with software these days I doubt sleep is their biggest priority. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 7995309

    I couldn't agree more. Garmin's sleep tracking is really subpar. I switched from Samsung Gear S3 Frontier and despite its age, its sleep tracking is more accurate.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 7995309

    I couldn't agree more. Garmin's sleep tracking is really subpar. I switched from Samsung Gear S3 Frontier and despite its age, its sleep tracking is more accurate.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 6339987

    I hear you, I use the Oura ring, I think the subscription price is worth it for more accurate data about sleep, recovery, training readiness and health.