 For the best couple of years I was searching for ways to track my sleep and consequently tried to improve it. I started by journaling and writing down the details of my every night sleep. Then I moved to using a variety of different sleep apps so I actually had to sleep with my smartphone under the pillow. Then I started using my smartwatch but none of the tools were either comfortable nor accurate. And then I came across the Aura Ring Sleep Tracker. Hey what's up Recky or the founder of your inception, welcome to my channel. Subscribe below to start your journey to limitless performance. Today we're gonna talk about the Aura Ring Sleep Tracker. Now this is one of the most popular and apparently one of the most accurate sleep trackers on the market and I've been using it for a couple of months, almost half a year and I have a lot of things to say about this sleep tracker. Some great and some well not that great. Aura Ring is obviously a ring that you can put on any of the fingers you want to, obviously it has the fits on it and it can measure a few different key elements and signals from your body to understand three crucial things, your sleep quality, your activity and your readiness level. And we'll talk about all three sections more in details in the second part of the video. Now in my opinion this ring looks amazing, it comes in four different colors at this moment and it costs somewhere between 300 to 400 dollars. It's wire resistant, made of titanium, it comes with a charging device and a free sizing kit, so it's basically impossible to order the wrong size. This is basically a Bluetooth device that stores all the data from your whole day and night and then once you get close to your smartphone you can connect it and then all the data will be transferred to your smartphone device where you'll be able to see it, compare it and also then take certain actions to improve it. One of the good things about this app is that it's free, you get it for free with the device so there's no additional cost of using it. Now let's look at the three main features that we talked about. Sleep quality is the first one, obviously one of the main reasons why I decided to test and not then buy this device was because I wanted to track my sleep quality. And Aura Ring does this in a very interesting way, it uses lots of different data to then try to give you a score from 0 to 100 and based on that score you can see if you slept well or not that good. So among other things it checks, total sleep time, time in bed, sleep efficiency, restfulness, rapid eye movement sleep, deep sleep, latency and even timing. Now how important each of these elements is it's kind of hard to say but every day you'll get a total score but you can also check each individual factor so it's quite easy to adjust different parts of your sleep if you know where the issue is. For example if you go to sleep too late at night then you can change this. If you have some other issues you can optimize different parts of your sleep. By the way guys if you like this video please press the like button below. Now the second feature is the activity. Every day Aura Ring gives you the activity score which comes out to show you if your activity was good, if you were too active or if you're not active enough. And to give you this data it checks different things such as total calories burning a day, how many steps you took, training frequency, training volume, recovery time, daily movement and even daily active time. But as you will soon see this activity part has some issues. I'll talk about this in the end. Last but not least there's their readiness score. Now in my opinion this is the most accurate and the most useful part of the Aura Ring. Now some people don't like it but I find it tremendously useful and I really find it very accurate. Now the readiness score is based on the following factors. Resting heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, body temperature, recovery index, sleep score and previous day activity. So as you can see it kind of takes the data from your sleep and your activity from the previous day and then based on that it recommends you either to perform really hard on the next day, go to gym workout or to kind of take a little bit easier day the next day. Now a couple of other features that I really like is that once you get the score over 85 you'll get a small crown there which is kind of a cool and it pushes you to try really hard to get a score over 85. And the other thing is the heart rate variability which many other trackers cannot track and the cool thing about heart rate variability is that it always check your baseline that it calculates after about three to four weeks of use and then it gives you score based on your baseline not based on any other standard. Now why exactly do I use Aura Ring? First of all I decided to buy it because I wanted to see how my sleep looks like and if there's something I have to improve and that was the main reason and this is also why I recommend to many other people. I can also track within the app obviously the sleep stages, I can check my deep sleep, I can check my rapid eye movement sleep and different elements are very interesting to me. Secondly I can see how different activities like drinking alcohol in the evening, eating a large meal in the evening or other stuff influence my sleep so I can change this or optimize it in order to have as least impact on my sleep as possible. I also use Aura Ring when I'm trying different sleep supplements so I can see how they influence my sleep and if they improve it or not. By the way guys if you want to check my favorite sleep supplements check up there there's a link which will lead you to a video which I prepared just for you guys. The second thing is the readiness level I really like that because sometimes I sleep really well but then the readiness score is pretty low which tells you it's a day in front of you that you need to kind of recover take it easy and I find this very useful and very accurate actually I never checked all the scores the sleep score and readiness score before I try to manually say how well I slept or how how well I feel basically and after I do this I compare this to the score that Aura Rings gives you and this is always pretty similar so if I feel well arrested Aura Ring usually shows that as well and if I don't then Aura Ring also informs me about that and this is very useful and where it comes to activity I definitely prefer tracking activity with my Garmin smartwatch that I currently use it's much more I think accurate and at the same time as you will later see Aura Ring has some issues for activity tracking which I personally don't like so yeah I'm gonna talk about this very soon. So how can Aura Ring benefit you? Well the first thing you can definitely improve sleep pretty quickly once you get basic scores and once you track or use Aura Ring for a couple of days or weeks you will see when something goes wrong if you didn't sleep well enough when is your perfect time to go to bed and that kind of stuff so this is probably the biggest benefit you can get out of Aura Ring and the second one is readiness level which I talked about before Aura Ring can tell you if you can really work harder next day or if you should take a day off or you know take it a bit easier and it's really accurate as I said before and very useful especially if you have many really hard days but you had really good sleep however you're not well rested and because of that Aura will kind of tell you to take it easy and whenever I follow this I have no issues with my health I feel really good the next day but whenever I try to push it sometimes there's a small crash that follows and yeah this is something you need to know about and if you check the data every day well you can avoid burnouts or small crashes now here are four reasons I really like Aura Ring first of all I think the sleep tracking is very accurate um based on the data I found based on the studies I found and based on my personal experience I found this data very accurate and if I feel awakened if I feel I have enough energy in the morning and I slept well usually Aura Ring score is 80 and above the second thing is I really like the look it looks very nice very clean it's very easy to wear and I can easily wear it all day around and sleep with it it's not too bulky like this watch for example for sleeping so I really like this the third thing is that you get a free app with that tool or gadget which is not that often in this industry for many other tools you need to pay actually for using the app and the data and the last thing is that by following the data and optimizing your sleep or your performance you can quickly see lots of benefits and results now there are a couple of things I don't like about Aura Ring the first one is the activity tracker now I find the activity tracker not accurate compared to my Garmin smart watch and the other thing about this one is that obviously you wear a ring on your fingers right so whenever you work out for example I work out with kettlebells quite often um you kind of a you can scratch it even though it says it's it's scratch resistant I don't think that to be totally true because I have already some scratches on the ring and secondly it's not comfortable you know working out with with weights or you know even doing like push ups it's not that cool having this ring on it I don't find it comfortable and I don't like using it and at the same time you don't see any data on the ring you have to look at the app later on um compared to like for example my smart watch um so yeah for activity tracking I really prefer smart watch compared to Aura Ring now the second thing I would like to see improved in the next version is battery life according to Aura the battery works for about seven days based on my experiences more like four to five days maximum so that's something that could be definitely improved synchronizing is also a little bit of an issue for me um I'm using the new Samsung S20 and I have some issues with syncing the smartphone with the ring um sometimes it's worked very you know easily and it connects immediately and sometimes it just takes a little bit of more time a couple of minutes I have to turn off the app a couple of times and I really don't like that and last but not least the accuracy of the deep sleep is somehow questionable um I know that those small devices have very hard time accurately measuring the deep sleep um but overall sleep score I find it very accurate so I wouldn't worry about not knowing the excitement about deep sleep at this very moment and I think with the newer versions the deep sleep measuring will also become more accurate so the final verdict do I recommend using the Aura Ring or not well based on my experience based on my data my research definitely I definitely recommend to everyone who is serious about sleep hacking who wants to improve uh their sleep quality who wants to kind of take control or you know his life or her life um because that's what Aura Ring can give you it can help you see different parts of your sleep your day your activity um and show you some potential problems which you can then optimize I find it most useful for sleep tracking it's small it's simple to use it's not that affordable for many but I think you know if you look at the price performance it's well worth the money um so if you want to improve your sleep if you want to kind of know or prevent any kind of burnouts or um you know energy problems or that kind of stuff then Aura Ring is definitely a ring to try um as I said it's pretty cool and compared to all the other devices out there um I really like the size and the feel and 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