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Inaccurate sleep tracking? Any settings to tweak?

GS
over 1 year ago

I'm finding my 'bed time' to be way off, it will show me asleep as soon as I hit the lounge of a night, last night that led to 4hrs of extra sleep being logged. I've had a bit of a search around and I see suggestions to just edit the time, but that's not a great solution, are there any settings related to the sleep sensors and their sensitivity, whatever those sensors are?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Just ignore sleep tracking. It's not working properly for quite some people. 

  • +1 over 1 year ago

    One trick is to use the sleep mode and put the watch into sleep mode manually (by setting the sleep time (schedule) to a slightly later time than your regular sleeping time). That way, the watch starts the detection only after entering sleep mode and it has been quite accurate for me.

    I used to do the same for my Apple Watch and it works much better this way too.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Garmin always scores poorly for sleeping tracking, you just need to watch some of the Quantified Scientist reviews on YouTube.

    Having poor sleep tracking makes some of the other garmin metrics useless, like body battery, training readiness and recovery time, as all of these are linked to sleep performance. 

    By far the best sleep tracking is whoop, which lives on my right arm and the Garmin on the left, if garmin could resolve the poor sleep tracking, I would definitely ditch the whoop. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Melsea

    Well that's a bit disappointing to hear, a few of the bigger features I bought this new thousand dollar gadget for, don't really work.... I guess it tells the time pretty well Rolling eyes

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to GS

    Wait. You paid 1000 dollar for a forerunner 965? US dollars?

    And yeh, there are quite a number of garmin features you can put “which doesn’t work” after.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Elbo

    To get more accurate data which is impacted by the poor sleep tracking...I try and remember each morning what time I went to sleep the night before and I also note my specific wake up time and I edit the sleep/awake times in my Garmin connect phone app.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Pete1336

    I just trust my body. I know when I’m recovered. I know when I’m tired. I know when to train hard or do a recovery run. Don’t need a watch to confirm (and my watch doesn’t even do that Rofl).

    (overal I’m happy with my fr 965 as replacement for my ancient fr 935. But I think it’s a replacement and not an upgrade. Usefulness is about the same. Except for the screen. Due to the very poor gesture handling the screen on my 965 is worse than on my 935)

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 5829726

    This is a great idea. I will use this method to clean up my sleep data. But how does Garmin track sleep if we sleep later in the morning (later than the end of our pre-defined sleep schedule)? If we're sleeping, we can't manually turn on the sleep mode to track the extra sleep... Any thoughts?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to refriedbeans

    In my experience, it stops once you have read your Morning Report (if you have it turned on) and it doesn't detect multiple sleep sessions well. I have seen my Body Battery increase a little (~5 points) after a nap but that is about it. The only parameter that is adjustable is the Start and End time for each day.

    According to the latest research on sleep, what is the most important is ~8 hours of continuous undisturbed sleep (because of how our sleep cycle progresses from hour #1 to hour #8), so the way Garmin designed it is actually helpful. Multiple sessions totalling up to 8 hours of sleep is unlikely to help you recover anywhere as well as a single 8 hour session. Naps are good for your brain (learning, creativity etc) but they are unlikely to do anything for your physical performance.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 5829726

    My experience isn't the length of time that is captured, it's the sleep cycles, Garmin watches never capture sleep cycles correctly for me, with only 10 to 20 min max of deep sleep, compared to the whoop 4.0 which always captures 75 to 90 min of deep sleep. The as a result the Garmin usually scores sleep as fair, which then impacts recovery, training readiness and body battery. Without accurate sleep cycles, all the other Garmin metrics are worthless.