Omega Chen purchased a Garmin watch to track his heart rate and other metrics when he exercised, but it also measured things like his resting heart rate and “sleep score” every day and night. Yet no matter what he did to get a better night’s rest, he could not improve his numbers. Week after week, he watched them plummet.
“It was driving me crazy trying to isolate all of these variables and trying to get all of my recovery scores up, but nothing would happen,” Chen, a 37-year-old software engineer in San Diego, California, told Salon in a phone interview. “I was wigging out about it, and I realized this was not healthy and I needed to take a break from this watch for a few months and detach from the numbers.”
