Garmin stress/body battery to give context for training

I have a forerunner 745 and wear it most of the time, I’ve noticed a couple of things:

  • sleep score has helped focus on getting more sleep but the ‘stages of sleep’ it reports are probable rubbish.
  • body battery reaching 100 in the morning seems to correlate with naturally waking up.
  • stress score is always elevated after exercising and tends to decline back down over a few hours.
  • After hard sessions the stress score stays elevated for much longer than an easy one.
  • if the stress score is higher than usual through the day it prompts me to think why, eg if I’m ill.

That said, take the metrics with a big pinch of salt…

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