Stress measuring
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Had an intersting experience with a friend of mine who has a Garming watch. In a social setting her watch started to beep because she was stressed and her HR rose. In some settings I can be stressed too, but it never will be shown on my SA. It almost never happens that the app indicates stress or that I am stressed. Even if i now I am stressed over a loner period of time.
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@Stefan-Kersting you should see daily duration of stress in the Suunto App within Resources, at least.
I know Garmin will show you a graph of stress during the day where you can see when you were more or less stressed out. This is nice as you can see what impact it has on your body going to a party and getting drunk more or less… -
@2b2bff or when you’re getting sick. For example in Coros it looked like this when I got sick a few days ago:
Usually it’s very low during sleep. Two days after that I got the flu.
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@Stefan-Kersting I agree, the „older“ S5/S9 algorithm showed my resources state as stressed more often than the actual one on the Race S, where It’s often either active/inactive or recovering during sleep.
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The resources visualization I don’t complain about. It works as you see on my screenshot. It’s just that on 99 percent of the days it never will be registered time “stressed”.
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@Stefan-Kersting Ah… I see, that’s weird. Maybe you’re just too cool from your many hours of XC Ski adventures
For me there is „stressed“ time marked, but from the graph I can’t really tell, when. Perhaps we could have stressed times coloured in orange or another colour…? I would also love to be able to „tap“ on this graphs to see the time or have thin vertical lines marking hours.
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@Stefan-Kersting that’s different for me (Race S)…
although Garmin seems to have a different opinion on stress. Or rather Garmin doesn’t calculate stress if you are in an activity and Suunto seems to do it.
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@2b2bff I find Suunto’s resources feature quite interesting and it’s pretty good in visualising how different life situations influence you.
I had to care for two classes simultaneously right in the morning which always feels more demanding than giving just a normal lesson and resources dropped faster for me until a colleague assisted me, where the curve flatens in the mid to late morning
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@ChrisA yeah, but if you ever have seen Garmin’s implementation of Body Battery / stress levels, Suunto’s Resources could be improved:
Even more so as you have to tune the HR settings to get a somewhat meaningful Resources measurement…
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@2b2bff I actually had different Garmins and I like their Bodybattery feature, when it comes to daily insights but I disliked their “longtime” insights (which are limited to 4 weeks) compared to Suunto’s, which can be displayed for a much longer time period and are more meaningful in my opinion when I compare both
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@2b2bff
I got F7Pro and this is one of the few working features. I got high stress alert if I’m in hurry or even if I want to do many things fast… It surprised me very often, how could this be so accurate.But I already ordered Race titanium charcoal for great price, so I’ll test them simultaneously and will see, what will suit me better. Garmin is getting worse and worse and their support is absolutely catastrophic.
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@Jan-Suchánek The Race titanium looks awesome! Enjoy it! what made me decide against Garmin was:
a) sleep tracking didn’t work and that spoiled all the other recovery metrics, telling me to rest most of the days
b) the app, which is one one hand very complicated and on the other hand very simple, e.g. you can’t have something as showing your pace over the last weeks or months in a graph
c) but mostly: the whole - we give you a score for everything / track everything- dogma, which finally made me aware of, how I got lost in the „medium“ (constantly checking and interacting with my sportswatch) and not doing the „real thing“ anymore, enjoying what my workout is ( feeling my muscles contract in strength training, or enjoying running in nature, breathing and feeling my body „work“). I think Suunto is much better in giving you good tools without creating an overcomplex and in the end meaningless and distracting system -
@ChrisA
Thanks! It will arrive on Tuesday. Doesn’t matter, I’m still recovering from some flu
. But I’m looking forward to Zone sense, because I use AlphaHRV data field on Garmin.Sleep tracking works great for me with Garmin, but battery life is much shorter than claimed and it’s worse with each FW. Tons of small bugs everywhere. It got thousand features, but bugs are everywhere. I got restarts on bike after which I wasn’t able to connect any sensors again. Only HR belt, but manually. No radar, no power, no speed/cadence. Factory reset or FW makes it work again. Till next ride… Garmin confirmed crash logs received and that was all. No info after that if they found the problem or if it’s resolved in next FW version. And that’s what I can’t stand.
Next example from these days. They broke GAP in beta FW. They got response from all beta testers, but after few weeks, they finally release so called stable version with this BUG and everything starts again. Someone from Garmin wrote to some member, that the beta team and stable release team are not connected
. So I can’t understand, what for is all the beta testing. They makes fools of all beta testers…If I’ll decide to stay with Suunto, I’ll have to buy some bike computer because of radar. Maybe I’ll try Coros Dura to try another ecosystem
. Shame, that Suunto doesn’t support bike radars. Karoo is not well connected to Suunto app from what I heard. Affects training load or what, if it’s true. -
@Jan-Suchánek oh what a mess! I always thought that especially in the „bike realm“ Garmin really shines
since there are not many sportswatch companies, that also sell bike stuff. I think Polar has stopped long ago and Coros just started. -
@ChrisA
My friend has Edge 1030plus and Varia 515. It was the top models when he was buying it. The radar never works with this Edge, was constantly disconnecting. Finally he was forced to buy Bryton radar which work fine with Edge
. What should work better, than accessories from same company? But not at Garmin. And I can continue, but won’t spam this forum. -
@Jan-Suchánek said in Stress measuring:
Someone from Garmin wrote to some member, that the beta team and stable release team are not connected. So I can’t understand, what for is all the beta testing. They makes fools of all beta testers…
OMG, didn’t knew this, yet. I feel you. I have an Epix Pro and therefore the same software. I haven’t experiences crashes, yet, but currently my HRM doesn’t connect automatically and I have to be careful, that it does. Wouldn’t be a huge problem, if they finally fix that wrist heart rate sensor problem. With my older Fenix I never had a chest strap and heart rate sensor was fine…
Unlike this forum, with the Garmin forum I get the impression, that nobody from Garmin is taking it seriously anymore. From time to time there is some Garmin person replying but seldom something useful…
That feels very different with Suunto… Even the forum software is way better… -
@2b2bff
Auto connection should be now fixed in latest beta. According to forum.That’s exactly what I like here! The reactions from Suunto, compared to nothing from Garmin. I have a personal affinity for the brand. I’ve been having problems with it since I got my first Garmin watch. It’s a shame, the hardware is top-notch, that’s for sure, but unfortunately the software development is lagging behind.
