Sleep graph — what can I learn?
Written By KULG App
Last updated 11 months ago
KULG Sleep graph shows your personal rating of how well you slept on the nights before your runs on the scale of 1 to 5. By monitoring your sleep data on training days, you can better manage your overall training load and also understand how it impacts your results.
Sleep is crucial for recovery and the recommended sleep duration for regular runners is 8-10 hours. Poor sleep can affect your body's ability to repair muscle tissue, which is essential for both recovery after workouts and growth in strength and endurance. At times when rest and recovery is inadequate, your training readiness, especially for higher intensity is lower, so your training plans should be adapted accordingly.
NB! Daily option is available if the selected time frame is within 6 months and weekly if it’s within 1 year.
Tips to understand progress 💡
→ Check how your sleep score has been trending over weeks and months and ensure that you’ve prioritised recovery, especially at times of higher training load.
→ See if you can notice patterns between sleep, feeling, performance metrics or getting sick and injured.
Data accuracy ⌚️
At KULG we believe that your internal view of the quantity and quality of your sleep is more accurate than any estimated score from a sleep measuring device. Sometimes we sleep fewer hours but feel more rested, sometimes the devices give us a good score but we feel less fresh. Nevertheless, you can use the sleep score from your sleep measuring device as the basis to rate your sleep and use it to add sleep ratings to your earlier runs.