Daily stress notifications

Does anyone know how the algorithm of the daily stress notification work? I'm wearing venu 3 for 2 months or so now and I guess I only had one or two "easy days", it's mostly "stressful days" and sometimes "demanding days". Controversially, the easy days were days where I was active for most of the day (thus stress wasn't measured for the most part).

Therefore it doesn't feel too accurate to me so I'm ignoring it. Is there any actual use of this feature, does anyone find it to be accurate by any chance?

While at it, I also want to share that one of the best features of the watch is the overnight HRV in my experience. Just creating visibility into that lead me to take some actions and now I can see my last 7 nights HRV increasing over the past few weeks (very very slowly but consistently).

0 Garmin-Inder over 1 year ago

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0 7983379 over 1 year ago

Could you, please, elaborate more on your HRV stat and the steps you've taken to increase it? Thanks

0 saint over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Inder

Thanks so much for the doc. I am well aware of the stress level calculations, and love them - one of the reasons why I keep using my watch.

My question was on a specific part of it. The watch gives a notification towards the end of the day (say 8 or 9 PM) saying that the day has been "easy", "demanding" or "stressful". In my experience it almost always was "stressful", how does it calculate it? The doc you linked above doesn't include that information.

I'm asking because I'm ignoring it now assuming it's a broken algorithm. I find many of the watch's features quite useful and would love to make use of this too, that's why I'm asking.

0 saint over 1 year ago in reply to 7983379

On HRV stats, it's the (boring) trio of sleep, exercise, and diet. I thought I was doing these well but when data didn't match my assumptions on HRV front I was a bit more methodic and did things like go to bed earlier, did breathing exercises before bed, changed & increased exercise patterns, and decreased meat + increase fiber in my diet, among other things. Nothing you cannot find online.

I wish I could give you a silver bullet, sadly I'm gaining 1 ms increases every couple of weeks so this doesn't seem to be an easy journey.

The only out of the ordinary thing I can say, and it's a gut feeling, is that an (almost) obsession on oral health including oral probiotics seemed to have accelerated things a bit further. It's only a hunch and I could be misjudging a correlation with causality so pls take it with a pinch of salt.

Good luck.