Body Battery on my 6x Pro is uncanny how accurate it is.

Agree with the above. It's not new data, it's meaningful insight in the data. That's what the value of data must be, actionable Intel.

I was sick last week.  just one day (I dunno, maybe food poisoning?).  Spent it on the couch, feeling awful.  I thought laying there- all that rest, would give me a fully recovered body battery.  nope- it knew I wasn't doing well.  my battery was in the single digits.  so yeah- it's kinda'  accurate.  

That's pretty neat! I mean, I guess we don't really need our watches to tell us we're sick, can pretty well figure that out on our own haha, but it's great that it works so well that it can actually tell the difference between quality rest and stressed rest (like laying on the couch sick).

I never exactly know what I'm supposed to do with the body battery information, but I have found that it motivates me to go to bed earlier (and also drink less alcohol, haha), so those things are both a plus.

Good read that, buddy! I'm finding the body battery close, however, stress is a little bit and miss.  I wonder by design it doesn't monitor stress within activities, although, I have seen it overlayed once, but I can't think of how I did that.  

I run with my watch and cycle with my 530.  They work independent of each other and I rely on physiotrueup to tie them together ( which is spot on).   

Anyone else having gaps within the stress score?  My body battery continues to work on the fly.  

Ps I'm currently subscribed to Whoop and it's absolutely spot on.  But if I can use my F6x to circumvent the subscription, awesome!  

hi all,

I was impressed myself how body-battery shows how you feel.

my experience with a nasty flu...started Friday, Oct 11 evening....till Sunday in the evening my body-battery was constant 5, with a lot of stress,,,, indeed from Sunday evening I started to feel better and was the first night I slept fine...

amazing.....

have a nice day!

robert

I do have gaps within the stress score. Garmin say if one is to active the watch have som dificuly to measure HRV. When I enter a activity like running I dont have any stress score, if I remember correct it is so by design because? training is stress on the body. But body battery reading comes from measurment of HRV (stress score)

While I love the feature, unfortunately Body Battery *still* doesn't work with all activities. With some of them it just flat lines during the activity. Garmin has been aware for a few months now but still no fix :( so some days the % is just plain inaccurate. 

But how long did it take to recover , I had a few beers Christmas Eve and day and my body battery as flat lined on 5 all day Christmas Day it’s now Boxing Day and it’s only climbed to 11

Body Battery is one thing and one thing only: a rolling total of HRV stress. High HRV stress: body battery runs down. HRV "at rest" - Body Battery tops up slowly.

HRV stress (r-r Interval, not HR) is proxy for allostatic load - how much physiological stress your body is under while at rest.

If you drink alcohol, eat greasy or just too much food, or get sick, your body's resting stress level goes up as it fights whatever's going on. You may feel relaxed (low psychological stress) but HRV is a gauge of what's going on under the hood.

So, yeah, you drank alcohol, and probably had some big Christmas dinner... your HRV stress was higher than "resting" and Body Battery stayed low or didn't charge up quickly.