Stress score comparison between 2 people OR between yourself and a fitter version of yourself

If two people have a stress score of 25, are they experiencing the same metrics, or does it individualize those? Further, if you become healthier over time, does it adjust to that change (meaning your 25 score super fit is much better than your 25 score when you were less fit)?

0 jmurray77 over 2 years ago

To clarify a little… I used to drink about two pints of ipa every night. One day I stopped and had really great stress and recovery metrics that slowly went back to “normal” over a few months. Beyond that, now a single drink will absolutely grenade my stress scores, as where a single drink before would actually look better than the usual. So… what happened there???

0 dunc over 2 years ago in reply to jmurray77

I think you answered the question there - based on your experiment it seems relative? Science thanks you! :)

HRV and HR are absolute though. These are the metrics I track every morning:

Lowest HR in the last 4h - as a proxy for the lowest during the night
Resting HR that morning, and the 7d trend
Last night's average HRV

And yes, I disagree with Garmin here since the HRV status is based on 7D average and is not very useful IMO, also the HR metrics I look at are not available in the morning report :facepalm:

Note that sleeping HRV and min HR correlate with recovery rather that fitness - sure they trend HRV high/HR lower as I get fitter, when I'm out riding every day I don't often let my body fully recover, so these values never bottom out unless I take a few days off.