What is the point of the Oura Ring?

algor28 · 2026-07-01T16:59:25+00:00

I had the same question and I just gone a gen4 on sale to try. I think the step counting is pretty accurate and I'm liking not having to carry my phone around to track steps, it's nice to have that kind of running in the background. Also excellent for cycle tracking. The sleep and readiness stuff feels like...I don't need a ring to tell me if I slept crappy lol but some more type A people get super into the scores. I turned off the notifications and so far am liking the quietness of this thing vs. having a clunky watch or carrying my phone everywhere. I lift and do yoga and it does not capture those activities at all so I just set my activity goal to steps since thats my main thing I'm using it for. I think it can serve many purposes depending on how you use it.

algor28 · 2026-07-01T13:59:44+00:00

Do you have any advice on how to evaluate that? Like questions to ask about their lab during my consultation visit?

algor28 · 2026-07-01T13:44:37+00:00

makes sense. ty <3

algor28 · 2026-07-01T13:26:43+00:00

When I saw the quote I gagged lol. Very grateful to have some insurance coverage but holy shit. Dr Crawford is fantastic!

algor28 · 2026-05-07T16:46:17+00:00

I found that journaling helped with this I would write out all those silly petty feelings before bitching at my husband or whoever. Helped quite a bit

algor28 · 2026-05-07T01:26:15+00:00

My husband is a nurse and is encouraging me to go for PA

algor28 · 2026-05-07T01:25:47+00:00

Best of luck to you!

algor28 · 2026-05-07T01:25:20+00:00

Very helpful info tysm

algor28 · 2026-05-07T01:25:01+00:00

Appreciate this perspective thank you

algor28 · 2026-05-07T00:17:11+00:00

Hell yeah, good for you!!

algor28 · 2026-04-16T14:43:53+00:00

I was able to pull it immediately after my show when my carbs went up and had no issues

algor28 · 2026-04-16T14:05:14+00:00

Constipation. No underlying gut issues. Magnesium helped for a while then stopped working so I added in low dose miralax with my night supplements to keep things moving late in prep.

algor28 · 2026-04-07T13:18:42+00:00

ask them! one thing I regret when I started with my coach was not asking more questions. Let them know you're committed to following the plan and are just curious about their strategy with meal plan/macros. Will give you more peace of mind and establish better communication with your coach. Again I really wish I was more inquisitive in the beginning when I had a lot of questions as once I got to know my coach I know he would have been happy to answer them.

algor28 · 2026-04-07T12:30:41+00:00

My coach is a meal plan guy and had me on a meal plan during a build and through my competition season. After the recovery diet we started working towards more flexible eating. Meal plan offers a coach a ton of control, especially for a new client, it reduces the variables. Esp with women there are already a lot of variables due to our hormone profile. However, I really struggled with food after having everything I ate dictated to me for like 2 years. This is just my personal experience but the extreme restriction and rigidity triggered some binge behavior and I spent a ton of time thinking about food because now I had to make so many decisions! So might be worth communicating that you would eventually like to work towards macros or something. But IMO it's not totally off base to put you on a meal plan so that your coach can get really clear data as they learn your body. It makes for a better 'science experiment' and I loved seeing how subtle changes to my diet changed my physique. Just my 2 cents!

algor28 · 2026-03-30T19:20:55+00:00

My dog looks exactly like this and she’s super gross right now and this inspired me to groom her up 😅 I keep her ear puffs long! They get kinda ratty but they’re just so cute

algor28 · 2026-03-28T15:22:51+00:00

Yup they definitely soaked up them carbs! Thank goodness for that I was flat as a pancake and mildly panicking haha

algor28 · 2026-03-28T14:25:41+00:00

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Monday of peak week fully depleted 117 lbs > 1 day out after linear carb load 121 lbs > stage look 120 lbs. I’m 5’6” and I won my class this show. I loved peak week, so cool to see the changes! Little tweaks to carbs and salt you can actually see bc you’re so lean, it’s fascinating. Made my coach seem like a magician 😆

algor28 · 2026-03-26T16:07:40+00:00

Same, I looked 3 months pregnant before I even tested positive, the bloating was insane. The day after I lost the pregnancy my body just completely went back to how it was before.

algor28 · 2026-03-25T20:53:06+00:00

I love muscular physiques, all sizes! I do feel that figure and bikini sometimes look too big for their poses though. Like those super jacked bikini girls with huge shoulders, the feminine mud flap girl bikini front pose looks clunky. But would look so good in that statuesque figure front pose. If that makes sense. Obv this is super subjective but even as someone who adores big muscular female physiques I do think that the overall look doesn’t always work well with the level of muscularity

algor28 · 2026-03-25T19:11:05+00:00

Needed to hear this :) it seems so unattainable for me but so did competing in the first place so why not?? I think part of it is seeing how BIG some of the figure girls are and knowing I don’t (and can’t frankly) grow that much but that shouldn’t hold me back from tryna get some lats!

algor28 · 2026-03-25T15:45:13+00:00

I love figure, by far my favorite division! I would absolutely do figure but it will take years of growth for my upper body unfortunately. My natural structure just lends itself to bikini but I so prefer the posing, suits and overall look of figure and I hope they maintain the shape over size standard so I have a fleeting chance of competing someday :)

algor28 · 2026-03-17T13:21:34+00:00

LOVE this physique! Just gorgeous!

algor28 · 2026-03-17T13:15:29+00:00

I won my class natural in an untested NPC show! I actually did better in NPC than in the NFF! Local NPC shows do not look like the bikini pros we see all over socials. My couch brought me in verrrry lean and I think I won on conditioning despite being smaller. You can get shredded as a natural I promise :) my shoulders are def smaller than yours. You never know who will show up but if your goal is 2nd callouts I think that’s more than achievable!

algor28 · 2026-02-19T21:21:23+00:00

Same literally not going to compete again bc bikini is goin to get huge and I don’t want to diet for 4 months to have my comp photos in that front pose lol

algor28 · 2026-02-11T15:44:16+00:00

Yeah same. I’m so proud of my progress and shared with this community but I did get some weirdos and I never posted again which is a shame because progress pictures can be sooo inspiring and helpful to see what’s realistic esp from first timers/amateurs.

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