How to Track Your Sleep Quality?

There is no need to invest on a pricy sleep tracking equipment. A commonly used fitness tracker will help you do the work. Fitness bands like the HONOR Band 5 nowadays provide more advanced functions in addition to heart rate tracking or calorie counting. Professional sleep insight is among one of most practical functions.

It helps track, record, and even analyze your sleep. From the sleep curve on the paired app, you’ll have a precise insight into your sleep habit and even quality. It records the time you go to sleep and wake up, the specific time and percentage of deep sleep, light sleep and REM periods.

Also, you’ll get a score of your sleep quality and some useful advices on how to improve your sleep quality. Apart from the long night sleep, it can now pick up the naps you took at the day time, which other bands can’t.

Keeping track of your sleep serves many purposes. It helps you develop your sleep schedule, you get to know better about your sleep quality, and it’s a useful tool for your therapist, should you decide to see one. If you have trouble falling asleep or you want to improve your sleep quality, there’re some easy-to-follow methods you can practice in everyday life.

Tips to Improve Your Sleep Quality

● Be consistent

Try to stay on the same sleep-wake schedule, even on weekends. You might loath the alarms in the morning, but you’ll see better sleep quality recorded soon.

● Cut caffeine

Coffee stimulates your nervous system and stop your body from naturally relaxing. Avoid late coffee consumption. Opting for decaf coffee helps if you’re someone who needs their daily dosage of coffee.

● Keep it cool (and dark)

Dim the light, lower temperature, shut the windows to isolate the noise, and light up an aromatic candle, these will help you fall asleep faster and contributes to your quality of sleep

● Take a hot bath

A hot bath or shower not only relaxes your muscles but also your mood. Play some soft music during the bath will help you get into the sleeping mood quickly.

● Get a workout

Moderate aerobic activity can improve both sleep quality and sleep hours. But remember to exercise at least 3 hours before bed so your body gets enough time to wind down.

● Turn off screens

The blue light emitted by screens can disrupt your body’s preparation for sleep by stimulating daytime hormones. Turn off TVs, phones, and computers at least one hour before bedtime.

● Nap early—or not at all

A short nap during noon contributes to a productive afternoon. But avoid snoozing any longer than 20 minutes, which could steal time from your nighttime slumber cycles.

The bottom line

Sleep plays a key role in our health. Less than 7 hours sleep per night has long-term impact on your health and wellbeing. Luckily, just some small changes and a little assist from a fitness tracker help us get half the work done.

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