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Sleep detection effect on training recommendations, or vo2max etc

Benjamin
over 4 years ago

Hi,

Today my watch recommends me a training and there is an explanation that I didn't sleep enough.

I do tend to sleep somewhat randomly, so I slept perhaps 5 hours throughout the night (the watch shows 4 but it was basically 5 pretty sure), also got an extra 1.5 middle of the day which doesn't seem to be added. Now I don't even like to wear my watch while I sleep, especially not tightly. So not bothered by sleep data UNLESS it affects other stuff.

I'm slightly unsure if the training recommendations should just be ignored and disabled or they do have at least somewhat realistic correlation with what I may need in reality?

I also wonder - if sleep detection affects training recommendation, does it affect the training effect numbers, and vo2 max (as that seems to be a single golden number to reflect one's ability)?

It's not super important but would be somewhat nice to have some comparable data to show one's progress, or progress compared to other Garmin buddies, however when I look at my estimated race times I wonder what they were smoking, there's no way it could be estimated what I would do in a race based on my past year's activity as I didn't do any proper structured training let alone hard effort like a race.

I mean I can just run and be glad I have some records so I don't actually have to manually use a notebook for it, but would be nice to know which advanced features actually work with a decent margin of error (for hobby purposes) despite the sleep tracking inaccuracies.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    While sleep data is being captured it is also measuring resting heart rate during sleep, stress during sleep and recovery from stress to update body battery. The quality of your sleep/recovery can influence your recommended recovery countdown period after exercise. It may all be a bit smoke and mirrors, but I would think that the more data you allow the watch to capture the better its overall ability to monitor your condition and readiness for training hard, easy or whatever.

    A nap in the afternoon may not count as sleep, but I often have a lie down after lunchtime exercise - even a nap - and it does wonders to drop stress levels back into the blue and start rebuilding my body battery. My vote goes to wearing the watch 24x7 and let it do its job.