Ultrahuman is leading the race to be the best smart ring ever, leaving behind Oura, Samsung, and the rest of the lot. With excellent workout training, insightful recovery metrics, and detailed sleep analysis, the ring was made for professionals.
Using Ultrahuman Ring AIR can improve your overall metabolic health, sleep, activity, and recovery. Specifically, if you are struggling with your health for any reason, its actionable nudges are a huge help.
I am a coffee addict no less than Lorelai Gilmore, but Ultrahuman’s Caffeine window detection truly helped me know the best hours for me to have caffeine, which in turn improved the quality of my sleep.
I will be sharing what exactly Ultrahuman Ring AIR does, which makes it a good smart ring choice for every wearable enthusiast.
Metrics Ultrahuman Ring AIR Tracks
- AFib Detection
- Cardio Adaptability
- Circadian Alignment
- Caffeine Window
- Vit D
- Screentime
- Steps, Distance, Calories
- VO2 Max
- Sleep Debt
- Morning Alertness
- Movement During Sleep
- Sleep Score
- Sleep Stages
- Tosses and Turns
- Dynamic Recovery Score
- Stress Rhythm
- HR, RHR, and HRV
- Skin Temperature
- Cycle Tracking
- Pregnancy Insights
What I Use the Ultrahuman Ring AIR For?
1. Better Sleep Analysis
Ever woke up feeling groggy and more tired? Same. Well, that was before I started tracking my sleep with the Ultrahuman AIR. I’ve had smartwatches for a long time, but there is no way you’ll find me wearing one to bed.
Lucky for me, companies like Ultrahuman put that same tech in a tiny ring form, enabling people like me to use sleep insights to avoid said groggy mornings. The sleep time and sleep stages have helped me figure out the ideal time of sleep I need in order to be most productive the next day.
Apart from these, it also gives me sleep efficiency, avg heart rate, HR drop, lowest heart rate, HRV, body temperature, restfulness, blood oxygen saturation, and combines all this data into a sleep score to help me understand the quality of my sleep in a heartbeat.
The coolest new feature is the number of tosses and turns I took during my sleep. Now I can’t exactly tell how accurate this information is, but it’s good to know.
While there have been inconsistencies in my sleep tracking every now and then, like the ring stopped tracking my sleep because I woke up in the middle of the night for like 5 minutes, it’s sleep tracking is decent.
2. Manage Disrupted Sleep Routines during Ramadan
Everyone fasting during Ramadan must have experienced disrupted sleep routines. Now, since I’m not of the same faith, I can only imagine what a full day of fasting would do to my body and sleep.
Ultrahuman Ring’s Ramadan Mode is a game-changer! It rebalances your Sleep Index, focusing more on valuable daytime naps to optimize your sleep health during this holy month. Moreover, it also helps Ultrahuman learn from real-world Ramadan sleep data to improve their tech for everyone. Talk about inclusivity!
3. Temperature Tracking
Ultrahuman smart ring comes with a no-contact skin temperature sensor that continuously captures my skin temperature to measure my body’s physiological state and responds accordingly to various factors like working out, illness, and stress.
This feature especially comes in handy because a lot of other factors are dependent on it. Detecting your menstrual phases, predicting ovulation and next period date, and the onset of an illness are all detected by the continuous monitoring of the skin temperature.
However, if you are planning to use the Ultrahuman ring for tracking your fertility, I would suggest you go for a more established smart ring, such as Oura. For general period tracking, Ultrahuman is your pick.
4. Consider Your Body Clock
Before buying the smart ring, I had a quick chat with the Ultrahuman support team to know what it is that makes Ultrahuman AIR different from other smart rings. They said, “A phase alignment clock.”
A what now? A phase alignment clock, simply put, circadian rhythm, can tell you the effect natural light will have on your body. Meaning Ultrahuman Ring comes with the most innovative Phase Response Curve (PRC) insights, where you can detect the impact of stimuli, such as light exposure, food, alcohol, or exercise, on a change in your body’s circadian rhythm.
5. Movement Tracking
The ring tracks my every move (maybe even more) and shows me my MET(activity intensity per time) score, including the calories I burnt, from running and cycling to swimming and workouts. The step count is overcalculated since the movement of hands creates data noise, but that is a drawback for this form factor, not the Ultarhuman AIR.
Since different workouts have different intensity levels, MET allows for a general comparison of different activities and their intensities. While my phone is with me, it uses GPS, along with heart rate and calories, allowing me to see the route map, which shows exactly the route I took on my runs.
This detailed data allows me to monitor my workouts and overall activity levels, helping me stay motivated. I don’t prefer wearing my Ultrahuman Ring during heavy lifting since it’s not the most comfortable when dealing with weights, but for runs, walks, yoga, and pilates, it’s been pretty decent.
My Apple Watch seems to be more accurate with fitness tracking as compared to the Ultrahuman ring AIR, but again, the form factor is to blame. I mean you can’t get the best of both worlds, right? Which is why I know where to draw the line with these fitness trackers. Smart rings for sleep and wellness, smartwatches for activity and workouts.
6. Maximum Recovery with HRV Insights
Recovery is just as important as pushing yourself. I learned this the hard way, but if you’re doing extreme diets and workouts and still not getting the desired results, slow down. You might be pushing your body more than you realize.
This is where smart rings come into play. They know and put the health and recovery in the forefront. When I get exhausted, Ultrahuman Ring’s body recovery insights help me understand how much rest and sleep my body needs to recover for the next day.
The correlation between HRV and recovery is important to understanding the body’s recuperative capabilities. The trends in HRV help me understand if my routine and habits are treading in the right direction or not. A higher HRV graph is what we all should strive to achieve.
7. Personal Reminders
We’ve all been there before—getting so busy doing something that we forget about our health. In those times, it is important to get an external reminder to push the focus back on track. It’s also better for productivity.
The ring sends gentle reminders to move if I have been inactive for too long. Trust me, this feature is a savior! It has helped me make better choices in real-time. It also helps me keep track of my water intake. For example, I always forget to drink water, ending up with a bad headache. This ring helps me by reminding me to drink water and increase my water intake throughout the day.
8. Metabolism Tracking with Ultrahuman M1
If you’re someone struggling with diabetes or low blood sugar, Ultrahuman’s M1, in conjunction with the Ring AIR, is a godsend.
The combination of the two uses a real-time glucose biomarker to help you discover a personalized way to eat better and exercise smarter. It will give you personalized food suggestions, fuel for your next workout, and an optimized sleep time glucose. Wondering How? Through these:
- Real-time glucose monitoring
- Metabolic Score
- Food Score
- Fueling Score
- Performance Coaches
- Track Sleep, Stress, Fasting
- Metabolic Nudge
- Metabolic Vector
Also, the stimulant window in the app tells you the best time to consume and not consume caffeine so your sleep is not affected. A personal nutritionist right in your hand.
9. Navigate the Stress Cycle by Breathing
By using Ultrahuman’s Stress Rhythm Score, I can now discover stress patterns and understand how stress flows naturally with my body’s circadian rhythm throughout the day.
Mondays are usually the most stressful. So, I use Breathwork work mode that helps me with my stress management. It helps me modulate the vagus nerve to impact critical functions like the immune function. I can now find protocols that work for me by utilizing real-time HRV, temperature, and HR biofeedback through the Breathwork mode.
I promise you, it’s fascinating to watch how different breathing techniques alter your body’s indicators. Also, these devices focus on the importance of meditation in today’s hectic world.
Frequently Asked Questions
Wrap Up
Although Ultrahuman Ring is capable of tracking sleep insights, movement, skin temperature, and body recovery, it has some advanced features, like Real-time glucose monitoring, AFib detection, and Phase Response Curve (PRC) insights. So, whether you are a fitness enthusiast or a seasoned athlete, Ultrahuman Ring seems to be a good pick!
Although a few features of the Ultrahuman feels half baked, what impresses me the most is the company’s dedication to constantly improving and taking in customer feedback. The founder of Ultrahuman, Mohit Kumar, actively addresses feedback and reviews from people on online forums such as Reddit.
This leads me to believe that such a dedicated approach will soon put Ultrahuman at the forefront of the smart ring market.
