Garmin Connect Has A Sleep Tracker That Can Help You Optimize Sleep and Recovery!
The Garmin Connect Ecosystem is RICH with features that are either under-utilized or perhaps are misunderstood. I have wanted to explore Garmin Connect with my followers for a while now. I think the Sleep Tracker is a great place to start.
Garmin Connect, when paired with any of several Garmin wrist units, can track sleep quality, sleep quantity, sleep disruption, pulse oximetry, breaths per minute, and overall time. You can set goals for sleep quantity, and identify trends which may help you sleep better, deeper, or longer. I honestly can’t wait to try mine when napping. I suspect that napping is a critical part of recovery for myself and my clients. Here’s a Video I made this morning, with my first review of sleep, and what it tells me.
Where to Begin With the Garmin Sleep Tracker
The Garmin Connect sleep program actually begins on the phone app. Once your wrist unit is synced, then it asks what your usual bedtime and wake-up time are. Enter this information, and it will even prompt you when it’s time to hit the hay. Once you’re down, it measures motion, pulse oximetry, and breaths-per-minute, to record sleep phases, durations in those phases, and wakefulness. Garmin Connect sets the default time for sleep at 8 hours.
Once you are awake, if you own one of the more advanced wrist units, you can review your sleep on the device itself. If not, then head over to the Garmin Connect app on your phone for more details.
I tend to wake up around 2am most nights. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I just began using the sleep tracker. I’m aiming for 80 minutes of deep sleep, 90 minutes or more of REM sleep, and I want to try and sleep through the night. I’ll be adjusting my exercise schedule, my alcohol consumption, sleeping with my wife and also in another room, and at different temperatures, to try and see what does and doesn’t work. The Garmin Connect Sleep Tracker will record these, both acutely and over time, so I can see what trends work better than others.
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