Detailed stress doing the day monitoring missing
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I would like again to suggest a feature option indicating the monitoring of “stress” over the day.
I bought my Suunto Race 3 weeks ago and i’m angy about missing this simple feature what i’ve used since more than 4 years on my Garmin Forerunner 45 for a price less than 160 € !!!It can not be a rocket sience to implement this simple feature in the Suunto App. Data be collected but not displayed.
I thing i will send back the watch because this and a lot of other things should be basic function and missing in the app.
Or is there an announcement from Suunto about improving the display of such data?
Regards from Germany
Detlef -
@dpeuser The feature you are asking for is called Resources and is available as a complication and a widget. I am curious why you think any watch can measure stress during the day? The watches that claim to IMHO are feeding you false information as most use common measurements provided by your Suunto and then give you a number. I tend to examine how I feel rather than rely on a device to tell me my stress levels.
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I just wanted to add that the watch and app do also give you other metrics that I personally find are far more useful to my training than the resources/stress info.
Firstly, Suunto uses the de-facto ATL/CTL/TSB approach to tracking training load. This helps make sure you are not under- or over-training. There are graphs in the app and gauge widgets on the watch for training load and recovery balance that are updated daily.
Secondly, Suunto watches provide HRV measurements overnight. While not the gold-standard approach to measurement (which is first thing in the morning, sitting up, breathing quietly for a minute or 2 while measuring), I’ve found overnight measurement does generally track the same as my morning measurements and provides a guide as to how well your body is coping with training. I would note, however, that it takes about 3 months for you to gain enough HRV data for a stable baseline for it to be a useful metrics. Again, there’s a watch widget and graphs in the app.
The science behind both these metrics is solid and the metrics don’t try and ‘prettify’ the data for you by turning it into some abstract single number like many of the garmin metrics. Use them alongside your own feeling about how refreshed you feel, whether you are ill, whether you are stressed from other life situations, how you felt about recent workouts, whether you have injuries or sore muscles etc.
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