Sleep & Recovery

Should You Wear a Sleep Tracker?

Helpful tool or anxiety-inducing wrist tyrant? Both.

The quick explanation

Trackers (Oura, Whoop, Apple Watch) estimate sleep stages reasonably for trends but poorly for individual nights. Useful for spotting patterns; harmful if it spikes nightly bedtime anxiety ('orthosomnia').

Why this matters

Use trackers as trend tools, not nightly verdicts.

Tiny action step

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If you track sleep, look only at weekly averages — not nightly scores — for one week.