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I’ve been looking more closely at my wearable HR data lately and thought it would be interesting to compare April with May so far.

In April, my heart rate range was 48–186 BPM, with an average of 71 BPM.

So far in May, my range is 50–123 BPM, with an average of 70 BPM. For today specifically, my daily range was 52–123 BPM, with an average of 67 BPM.

I know wearable data isn’t perfect or a replacement for medical advice, but I’m curious how others look at this kind of information. Do you mainly focus on averages, resting HR, spikes, or trends over time?

I randomly checked the monthly “breaks” section on my Xiaomi Smart Band and honestly it made me think about how much of modern life is spent sitting.

According to this, I accumulated around 324 hours of inactivity/break periods during April, averaging about 10 hours a day.

What surprised me is that even on days where I felt “productive” or mentally busy, physically I was still spending huge amounts of time inactive.

Since I started paying attention to this metric, I’ve been trying to:

• walk more between tasks
• stretch during work
• avoid sitting for hours without noticing

Curious if anyone else tracks inactivity/sedentary time and whether it actually changed your habits long term.

Been tracking my sleep for April with a Xiaomi Smart Band 8 Active and honestly I’m starting to realize consistency affects me more than total sleep time.

Average sleep score was 81, average duration around 7h40m, but the nights where my bedtime drifted later definitely seemed to impact how rested I felt the next day even if I technically slept “enough.”

I’m also noticing my deep sleep varies a LOT from day to day even when the duration looks similar overall.

Curious for people who track sleep regularly:
what changes actually made the biggest difference for you?