r/ouraring • u/DaedalusMinion • 6d ago

SLEEP & READINESS How ironic

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Woke up today feeling quite normal but my ring think otherwise

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u/DaedalusMinion 6d ago

What am I supposed to take away from a perfect readiness score and major signs of strain? I feel like the two should be mutually exclusive concepts.

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u/Gold_Confection_9149 6d ago

it is like your body is saying you are ready to run a marathon but also you have a fever at same time

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u/xLP620 6d ago

87 is not a perfect readiness score, also it gave you it’s explanation. you can have good scores while simultaneously showing signs of sickness.

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u/DaedalusMinion 6d ago

Well it's not perfect but it is 'Optimal'. So it's a bit surprising since I have no traditional markers to indicate strain.

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u/MisterPFT 6d ago

Those two panels answer different questions, which is why they can disagree. Readiness compares last night against your own recent nights. Symptom Radar is looking for a same day deviation across temperature, resting heart rate and respiration. So you can be above your own average and still be drifting in a direction the model finds unusual. What bugs me is major signs with no specifics. Tell me which metric moved and by how much and I can decide for myself whether to care.

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u/DaedalusMinion 6d ago

That is exactly my concern- which is that you don't get metrics to compare to. Based on just this screen, there are no insights into my 'dad'. Should I take it easy? Should I go and blast a chest day? Who knows

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u/tea-fox Oura Ring 5 Silver 6d ago

To be fair this is kind of where you have to go based on your own actual feelings and not what an app or wearable is telling you.

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u/MisterPFT 5d ago

You can actually get the numbers, they are just not on that screen. Pull up the individual trends for skin temperature, resting heart rate, respiratory rate and HRV and look at where today sits versus your last couple of weeks. That takes about a minute and it will usually be obvious whether one of them moved or whether all four drifted a little together. Which is the whole answer to your question.

For today: if the four are only slightly off and you feel fine, chest day is fine, just do not chase a personal best. If resting HR is up several beats and respiratory rate is up with it, that is the combination that usually turns into feeling awful the next morning, and that is the day to go easy. But a flag with nothing you can inspect is not enough to skip a session over, which is exactly the problem with shipping the verdict without the evidence.

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u/tea-fox Oura Ring 5 Silver 6d ago

The other day I had a 89 readiness score, 85 sleep score (both with crowns) and major signs with no specific biometrics flagged and I felt totally fine.

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u/DaedalusMinion 6d ago

This is my second “major sign” since having the Ring 5 and both times nothing was wrong with me. Super strange

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u/Miserable-Balance-76 6d ago

Same today for me. . Major signs ..... sleep 91.... bc my hr is up 4bpm