I've never understood why people keep saying - I've never seen any 3rd party testing validate it as the best. I think the oura is a great sleep tracker if you're not worried about exercise - but any comparisons I've seen show it as the least accurate. Largely because the farther you are from your heart the less accurate at tracker is. Chest > Bicep > Ring > Finger. Apple Watch seems to be the most accurate with the BIG caveat that it has to be in exercise or sleep mode to track those things.

@@bronxzou check the quantified scientist KZfaq. He validated it over many nights against the polar h10, it's sleep algorithm isn't as good as some others though, like the apple watches

Yes I just watched TQS review of it. Looks really great - so glad you got one! Jealous!

Yes totally. I agree. It's the variance from the baseline that matters most

Yes completely. It's a must bc the AW doesn't claim to track HRV in real terms, so it doesn't watch for its own outliers.

I think interestingly enough I probably care a lot less about accuracy and a lot more about precision here. My experience has been that Garmin body battery and HRV tracks closer to how I "feel" and actually perform, vs Whoop which sometimes felt like it was guessing (particularly Whoop 4.0)

Yes completely agree

Yes me too, but it was more just a curious study to see how they looked against one another when laid out on the graph. I think the biggest thing is tracking the variance to whatever baseline is established, but it is also interesting to wonder which one is truly most accurate

Thank you! And yes - Garmin's is providing it all. The truth is the nightly HRV also correlates to body battery regeneration, which can be seen like Whoop's recovery score - and then Garmin has all of the other analytical features on top

@@fitgearhunter I'm tempted to go to go with 265 or 965, but I'm really curious if the Venu 3 will have the morning report or not, for bang for the buck and when will come out? My grandfathered whoop membership ends in September.

@@BillyK79 I wouldn't! The Venu series will likely never come w advanced training analytics - it's a big missing piece. Training load, training status, aerobic training effect, anaerobic training effect, recovery time, training readiness. None of that

Debatable w physio and recovery algorithms! But I hear you. One aspect I never liked about polar's approach is that they really only utilize four hours of your sleep data HRV to provide recovery recommendations