do SGarmin watches all offer detailed sleep tracking and analysis, which includes a sleep score that condenses all the metrics tracked by the watch into a simple ra useful way to track how well you sleep over time and compare your ratings with others, with new data from Garmin revealing that the average sleep score for its users in 2024 was 72.
That’s a pretty impressive rating and a rise on the average from 2023, which was 70. Garmin also found that three out of four users had fair or clong with basic stats like the total time you spend asleep, the sleep score also considers metrics like your heart rate and heart rate variability, how restless you were, and how much time you spent in deep, light and REM sleep.
I’ve tested pretty much every Garmin watch launched in the last five years or so, and while sometimes they can be generous in interpreting periods when I’m awake as light sleep, I still find it a useful way to keep tabs on the tren is especially important for me when marathon training and trying to recover well, and the score also makes it easy to see how things can affect sleep — drinking alcohol is a surefire way to drop your up to get the BEST of Tom’s Guide direct to your inbox.
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Elite athletes sleep better
The data Garmin revealed also showed that elite athletes had a higher average sleep score than Garmin defined elite athletes as the top 1% of its users regarding distance running or cycling, with the people in this category consistently logging either 95 miles a week of running or 210 miles a week of cycling in the last not surprising that people who are that active also need to sleep a lot, but it’s a useful reminder for us normal runners and cyclists that if you want to learn from the best, one thing worth taking away is how much time they spend on recovery.
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