How to adjust sleep goal?

ndevos 3 months ago

I recently got the Forerunner 265, and I'm having trouble adjusting what my "ideal" number of hours of sleep is - the sleep coach seems stuck on the 8 hours.

It's been known in scientific literature for a while now that 8 hours was an incorrect data point (it was collected from one very small subset of American males), and that sleep needs vary across the population.

Does the goal auto adjust over time, and it's not something I can manually edit?

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ndevos 3 months ago in reply to e7andy +1

So after a bit it will auto adjust the base up/down? So far I'm just getting a lot of "you aren't sleeping enough, add even more time to the 8 hours", "your sleep score is impacted because you didn't get…

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0 e7andy 3 months ago

You can't adjust the 8 hour sleep goal. The sleep coach can give you advice that deviates from the 8 hour sleep goal depending on how you sleep. Just give it some time. You can't adjust it.

0 ndevos 3 months ago in reply to e7andy

So after a bit it will auto adjust the base up/down? So far I'm just getting a lot of "you aren't sleeping enough, add even more time to the 8 hours", "your sleep score is impacted because you didn't get 8 hours," etc.

0 e7andy 3 months ago in reply to ndevos

It depends on the sleep quality. Just give it time. Not much to do since you can't adjust it.

0 Bitti 3 months ago in reply to e7andy

Just to clarify, the base sleep goal provided by the coach is not necessarily 8 hours, it depends on your age (for example my goal is 7 hours 40 minutes). But I don't think it dynamically changes based on your sleep (at least mine hasn't). But individual day's recommendation can be under or over the base depending on several factors.

"Determining your nightly sleep need starts with an age-dependent baseline. The baseline sleep recommendation for adults under the age of 35 is 8 hours. This recommendation gradually decreases with age so that adults over the age of 65 start from a baseline recommendation of 7.5 hours of sleep each night." ( https://www.garmin.com/en-US/garmin-technology/health-science/sleep-coach/ )

0 e7andy 3 months ago in reply to Bitti

Thank you for the correction.

Working link:

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/garmin-technology/health-science/sleep-coach/

0 Bitti 3 months ago in reply to e7andy

Thanks, fixed the original link, I don't know how the forum managed to screw it up.