2/25/2024 0 Comments Aura ring sleep![]() If you’re wearing an Apple Watch on a run and want to check your heart rate, you can do so with a couple finger swipes, barely breaking a stride. These are the three biggest reasons.įirst, it doesn’t have a display of its own. There’s really no way to sugarcoat it: The Oura Ring isn’t a good fitness tracker, and the reasons why are numerous. ![]() What’s Not Good About the Oura Ring Gen3? Below average fitness tracking I hesitate to compare it to its smartwatch competition because the Oura Ring has a lot less going on (and subsequently far fewer features), but for the record, I’ll say that most smartwatches run for about 12 to 20 hours per charge. The website says it should last between 5.5 and 7 days, so 6 seems average on the whole. Over the course of three months, mine averaged exactly 6 days of use before needing to grab the charger. Moving through it all is very simple, which is exactly what it should be. There’s also a screen called Explore that’s a well of guided breathing exercises, meditations, learning programs, and so on. Then there’s a screen for each of the three primary categories the ring tracks-Readiness score (stress, activity, and rest), Sleep score (exactly what it sounds like), and Activity score (exercise and movement). ![]() The home screen highlights notable figures like a particularly high-calorie burn and offers plenty of real estate to explain new features associated with firmware updates. ![]() I can’t tell you how rare that is with any apps, much less an app not designed by a major tech company. I had zero issues with app connectivity, updates, or navigation. It’s also good for folks who don’t like watches at all, which is a fair number of folks. It can smudge a little easily, but it’s hardly noticeable unless you shove it in someone’s face. Well, it looks like a rather nondescript ring, which works. Thus, the Oura Ring is perfect for me, because it does most of what the Apple Watch and its competitor do, but only takes up a spot on my finger. I don’t judge those who like their smartwatches, but I’ve grown too attached to my humble Seiko 5 Sport to wear one. There are a few more nuanced differences between the Oura Ring and other health trackers, but the biggest is also the most obvious: it’s a freaking ring. That’s how you build a habit, which is exactly what health-tracking wearables are meant to do. Yes, the little graphs tracking when and for how long you sunk into REM sleep are interesting initially, but it’s the quick reference that you return to time and again. This is where Oura Ring is at its best-collecting complex health data and simplifying it. Mercifully, I don’t have to look at every single data point (you can if you want, it’s all in the app), because all those numbers are crunched into a sleep score, which takes every data point into account and spits out a simple 0-100 number-under 70 is bad, 70 to 84 is good, 85 and up is optimal. Oura tracks awake time, REM sleep, light sleep, deep sleep, total sleep, resting heart rate, sleep efficiency, oxygen saturation, breathing regularity, HRV, and god knows what else. OK, so I got 2.5 hours of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep last night, what of it? One of the troubles with sleep quality tracking is that the numbers are often difficult to interpret. I was more satisfied with the Oura Ring’s sleep tracking tech than any other tracking category it offers. What’s Good About the Oura Ring Gen3? A+ sleep tracking
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