My Year With a Ring That Tracks Your Sleep
Why I track my sleep for better health
I’ve been using the Oura Ring sleep tracker nearly every day for an entire year. I bought the ring myself in 2018, and I have no affiliate relationship with the company. Oura tracks your sleep and activity levels and suggests how hard to push yourself mentally and physically every day to get the best rest at night.
This device may be small, but its impact on my daily habits has been profound. I used to regularly pull all-nighters and brush off signs of fatigue. This may have been naive, but I also didn’t have the tools to measure a good night’s rest. This ring has shifted my perspective on the importance of sleep by giving me the quantifiable evidence I needed to see that when I sleep better, I perform better in all aspects of life.
Before we dive into the specs, let’s quickly cover why you would want to track your sleep in the first place. I thought we were supposed to be obsessed with tracking 10,000 steps. Well, party people, sleep is the new star of the show, and every biohacker and their mom will tell you that getting enough sleep is probably the number one thing you need to live a longer and more productive life. Sleep is your recovery time.
You are not yourself when you’re running on little to no sleep. For me, sleep has the…
