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Garmin devices should be able to track naps

Many brands have built nap tracking functionality into their wearables. For some reason Garmin devices only have the ability to track on sleep session per day. This is unsatisfactory - particularly now that sleep stats play such a important function in the newly added Training Readiness score. For those that like to supplement a overnight sleep session with a long afternoon nap, the Training Readiness is consistently underestimating their actual ability to train. Please Garmin add the ability to track naps - even if it is just a simple timer (without sleep phases).

Maslakovic
Parents

  • I read that distinguishing "light sleep" from "wake" is one of the most difficult tasks in sleep tracking. Apparently, your heart beat pattern and writst movment (the data you have available for sleep phase identification) is not very different when you sit still and don't move as apposed to when you are light asleep. All sleep tracking apps and devices struggle with this problem (see https://mhealth.jmir.org/2023/1/e50983 , Figure 3, for a scientific assessment of this classification task). This is also the reason why you have to type in approximate bed time and wake-up time in most sleep trackers, because the sleep trackers would otherwise not be able to detect start and end of your sleep periods. I guess this is why Garmin does not launch a "nap" tracking app. It could/would most likely produce only random results ...

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  • I read that distinguishing "light sleep" from "wake" is one of the most difficult tasks in sleep tracking. Apparently, your heart beat pattern and writst movment (the data you have available for sleep phase identification) is not very different when you sit still and don't move as apposed to when you are light asleep. All sleep tracking apps and devices struggle with this problem (see https://mhealth.jmir.org/2023/1/e50983 , Figure 3, for a scientific assessment of this classification task). This is also the reason why you have to type in approximate bed time and wake-up time in most sleep trackers, because the sleep trackers would otherwise not be able to detect start and end of your sleep periods. I guess this is why Garmin does not launch a "nap" tracking app. It could/would most likely produce only random results ...

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