Smart watch for stress management/tracking

For my daughter, not me.  We think we could maybe learn about her stressors and work out what we can work on. Looks like the Fitbit Sense 2 is a good option – has anyone used one of these or something similar to good effect?

Depends what you mean by stress. The ‘stress’ that smart watches measure is generally heart rate variability which is more a measure of physical stress/recovery from exertion/poor sleep quality than mental stress.

Will/won’t you need a few months of non stress as a base to measure from? If just but a cheap activity tracker and try and correlate the heart rate with the stress later in the day.

Mi band 8 it whatever is the latest xaiomi offering.

My Epix stress alert goes off reliably at 1910hrs on a Monday.  Purely coincidentally this is 10 mins into my most stressful weekly meeting.

It never goes off while exercising.

I presumed it would be a gimmick but I’ve found it to be frighteningly accurate.

It was going off non stop while I was ringing Vodafone.

my fenix 6 does not register my stress levels. unless im drinking

🤷🏻‍♂️ but iPhone Health app includes a mood tracker. I was unaware of it until a few months back.
Sort of interesting, but probably less useful than mindfulness if you’re into that sort of thing

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/track-mood-with-apple-health/

my fenix 6 does not register my stress levels. unless im drinking

Yup it does seem to be the most reliable thing for me. That said my stress levels do spike when I am driving in crappy conditions (traffic or weather).

I also found it jumped during meetings when I was trying out using a phone and pacing around rather than just the headset which required me to be seated.

It never goes off while exercising.

It wont because it isnt measured during exercise because since, as others mention, it is primarily based around hrv it will be all over the place. There is also a recovery time where it doesnt record.

It wont because it isnt measured during exercise because since, as others mention, it is primarily based around hrv it will be all over the place. There is also a recovery time where it doesnt record.

Yes. *alert* my point being it doesn’t measure *alert* physical stress, it mostly *alert* measures mental stress such as *alert* arg*alert*uing with id*alert*iot*alert*.

//Your stress levels seem high, why not try a breathing exercise?//

That sounds promising.  We want to work out when/if she’s being stressed during the day and not realising it.

On my Garmin it is more exercise recovery based.

Sat and Tues were tough pedals. Yesterday may have been work related.  Although I find what Mrs 100th watches on TV gives me higher stress than my excitable S3 class .

That sounds promising.  We want to work out when/if she’s being stressed during the day and not realising it.

I think you’ll have a hard time connecting the data to any one cause. HRV responds to all sorts so it might show spikes when something stressful occurs like a phonecall from the bank, but it will also likely spike when you get up from a long period of sitting to suddenly walking about and talking. How are you going to separate the two and find anything meaningful from it when you don’t necessarily know what event it is registering stress in response to?