![]() ![]() ![]() While some new wearable categories spring up, make a big noise and then fade away, the future of smart rings looks bright. Oura does a much better job of presenting the same data in a more easily accessible and immediately actionable way.Smart rings are booming, and it looks like they're here to stay. Whoop's overlapping graphs, green-and-red up/down trend arrows, and emphasis on numbers are too much to decipher by comparison. ![]() I ended up relying more on Oura's guidance and data thanks to its straightforwardness and overall better presentation in the app's interface. Without specific activity suggestions like Fitbit's Daily Readiness feature or adaptive calorie burn goals like those offered by Oura, it's tough to do what Whoop tries to ask of you. Whoop's proprietary scale isn't totally useless, but it is hard to read, even after months of testing. Even if it did, going back through all your workouts to see which one nearly achieves your prescribed goal would be tedious to the point of negating Whoop's entire goal: simplifying your understanding of how you should treat your body on any given day. So if you have a strain score of 5 for the day and need to get to 16.2, you can’t aim to do a previously recorded exercise judged at a 11.2 strain score to fill the gap. You also can’t use previously logged exercises as a gauge since Whoop's strain scores use a logarithmic function instead of a linear one. For the most part, these vague numbers are all you have to go on. How exactly do you do that, though? The answer is essentially “guess and check.” Unlike with Oura, there are no easily discernible calorie-based activity recommendations, nor is there a clearly delineated three-point scale to determine whether you’re best served by recovery-focused, moderate-intensity, or high-intensity workouts for the day, as there is with Fitbit's Daily Readiness (along with specific workout suggestions). Other aspects, like my body temperature, resting heart rate, and "previous day activity," could be marked as "good" or "optimal." Advertisement Tapping on the former tells me that my body or mind has been under stress lately, while the latter says my sleep has been inconsistent. There are eight aspects to the readiness score Oura gives you you can easily tap on each one for a quick description of the metric and what their scores mean. At a glance, I can quickly see a red bar that says “pay attention” to my heart rate variability (HRV), for instance, while another calls attention to my sleep. The latter feature is still technically in beta, but it has been praised for its accuracy by other reviewers so far.Īll of your personal recovery’s contributing factors are neatly laid out in the Oura app, available on iOS and Android, through a succinct bar graph, with a couple of breakout line graphs underneath to further contextualize your heart rate data. It also factors in changes in body temperature, which can be used in part to predict menstrual cycles for users who have logged more than 60 days of data. Oura’s daily recovery assessment, which is referred to as “readiness,” takes into account longer trends, like your weekly activity and sleep averages. Each of these uses a combination of heart rate data, sleep analysis, and recent activity, plus a few metrics of their own, to inform their scores. Both Whoop and Oura need about two weeks to get to know your baselines before most of these insights are available. In general, they work similarly to the Daily Readiness and Body Battery features available with Fitbit's and Garmin's fitness platforms, respectively. Both devices use proprietary methods to assess your body’s readiness for exercise, then prescribe activity goals based on that information. Again, recovery is the name of the game for both the Oura Ring and Whoop 4.0. ![]()
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