Check out the Oura ring. I bought one years ago not to monitor stress in particular but because it gives me a “readiness score†every morning based on heart rate, hrv, activity, etc. It’s been awesome. No monthly fees.
I hadn’t heard of the Oura. Looks interesting. I’d rather wear a ring at night than a watch. But for the price of an Oura + Coros Pace 2 I could pick up a Polar Vantage V2 that essentially does both things in one device…
Garmin uses the body battery, stress rating, an updated recovery time algorithm, and has now added suggested workouts based on all of those factors plus your current training load and balance. Using the these metrics on the 945, and they seem to match up more or less with how I feel day to day, especially the body battery. It’s also nice to get a lot of this kind of data from Garmin without having to pay for another subscription like whoop.
I like that Garmin has all of FirstBeat behind it, I just haven’t had the best experience with Garmin before. Too buggy and too much stuff I don’t care about (music, contactless payments, etc.). That’s why I’m a Suunto user and have a Stages M50 for the bike. Though my old Edge 500 just won’t die.
I’m leaning toward a Vantage 2. If anyone has one I’d be very curious to know what you think of it.
One irony is that a few years ago, at the ripe old age of 36, I got a pacemaker – an extremely accurate HRM that’s always on and has a >9 year battery but the damned thing isn’t bluetooth!!! (my wife was not amused when this was the first question I asked my cardiologist when he told me I needed one)