Whoop does a good job of calculating how long you slept, but the sleep cycles are way off. It categorizes your sleep into four categories: awake, light sleep, REM sleep, and deep sleep. Just like Oura, Whoop automatically tracks when you fall asleep and wake up. The Whoop app is centered around strain and recovery scores. ![]() The bottom line? Oura matched how I felt physically more often than Whoop. It was interesting to see my assumptions about alcohol be proven by data. Each time you exercise, a tag with the type of workout is automatically attached to the day too. For example, I add “Late Caffeine” and “Alcohol” tags to my days to see how those inputs affect my readiness score. Oura has a “Trends” section that measures how different variables affect your sleep and recovery. It was amazing to track my body’s recovery each day after testing positive. My HRV plummeted to levels that it’s never at and my body temperature increased by four degrees. When I had COVID, it was really interesting and cool to see that Oura Ring knew something was wrong. Oura’s readiness score is a number out of one hundred, and the score seemed to match with how I felt physically each morning. These four variables are compared to your baseline metrics and used to determine your readiness score. Interestingly, rather than just one HRV reading like Whoop, Oura creates an average by recording your HRV throughout the night, which seems to be a smarter approach. ![]() Oura records your resting heart rate, heart rate variability, body temperature, and respiratory rate continuously throughout the night. Sleep cycles are hard for any wearable to track correctly, but based on my experience with other sleep trackers and knowing my body well, Oura seems to do a better job compared to Whoop. Oura nails the total amount of sleep that your body gets. Oura automatically records when you fall asleep and wake up, then breaks it down into light sleep, REM sleep, or deep sleep. Plus, the syncing between the ring and the app is almost instantaneous, while it takes Whoop up to 10 minutes to sync and calculate sleep. The Oura app is more user-friendly than Whoop’s app because it has fewer options. If you don’t want to have the battery pack attached to your wrist, change Whoop off your wrist. Just slide on the battery pack whenever you need juice and it charges while you wear it. Whoop has a smart “on-the-wrist” charging approach, so battery life is rarely a concern. Whoop is meant to be worn 24/7 and has a five-day battery. You can get used to Whoop 24/7, but even after a few months of wearing it, I still don’t love sleeping with it. The band materials aren’t as premium as the Apple Watch either. I don’t find Whoop as comfortable as the Apple Watch because it needs to be tight and the entire base needs skin contact. If you don’t want Whoop on your wrist, there’s a bicep band option, but I didn’t love it. It needs to be about an inch away from your wrist bone to get proper heart rate measurements. Whoop is meant to be worn on your wrist, but it sits higher than a watch. You’ll have to monitor and manage its five-day battery life as well. ![]() If you opt to wear Oura during the day, it gets in the way for certain workouts, like lifting weights, where it’ll be prone to scratching too. If you’ve got another device to track activity, there’s almost no advantage to wearing Oura during the day. It’s a better solution than a wrist device.īecause Oura isn’t ideal for activity tracking, which we’ll get into, lots of people in the community wear it for sleep exclusively. The ring looks cool, but I don’t love wearing a non-wedding ring on my finger during the day.įor sleep time, once you get used to wearing it, you forget it’s there. ![]() Hopefully, at least one finger will provide a nice fit at all times even if your fingers change in size due to a weight change. Oura can be worn on the pointer, middle, or ring finger. Unlike adjustable wrist wearables, Oura can’t be adjusted. Fortunately, it slides on my left index finger with a tighter fit and provides more accurate data. I fitted mine for my right-hand ring finger, but the skin contact isn’t strong enough to properly track my sleep for the whole night because there will be periods with missing data. Oura is intended to be worn 24/7 and needs to be tight on your finger. The whole process takes a couple of weeks. Oura will send the size you need once you tell them your size. Oura sends a fitting guide in the mail after purchasing your ring. I appreciate Oura’s unique design because it’s the only fitness wearable that comes in ring form.
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