Stress Duration – NOWATCH Help

Learn what Stress Duration is, how to read the chart in the Overview, the baseline, and the wearing requirements.

What is Stress Duration
How to read the Stress Duration chart

What is Stress Duration

Stress Duration shows how much time your body spends in a reactive state due to stress responses.

It is influenced by two metrics:

Stress Frequency: how often you experience stress responses.
Stress Recovery: how quickly your body returns to balance or Homeostasis after stress responses.

How to read the Stress Duration chart

Overloaded

The purple area represents the overloaded state. Your body may be under added pressure. This is when your Stress Duration is over 3 hours.

Resilient

The blue area represents the resilient state. Your body has been handling daily demands well. This is when your Stress Duration is under 3 hours.

Daily Stress Duration

Each grey bar represents your stress duration for that day: how much time your body spent in a reactive state due to stress responses.

Under 3 hours: You’re handling daily demands well.
Over 3 hours: Your body may be struggling to keep up.

Typical Stress Duration

Your Typical Stress Duration is shown as the purple and blue line, and reflects how your body's stress levels have trended over time. Shifts in this trend may signal that daily demands feel heavier, or that you need more rest.

This is the main part of the chart to keep an eye on.

Low Typical (blue line): You’re handling daily demands well.
High Typical (purple line): Your body may be under more pressure than it can manage.

Typical Range

Your Typical Range is shown as the purple and blue bars, and reflects how much your Daily Stress Duration varies from day to day.

Narrow Typical Range: More consistent Stress Duration, suggesting steady ability to handle daily challenges.
Wide Typical Range: More fluctuation, which may mean your body needs extra support to maintain balance.

Wear requirement

You need at least 10 hours of wear in the past month to view your Typical Stress Duration and Typical Range.

To better understand the science behind stress and why your perception of it matters, you can read Reframing Stress: Why Your Mindset Matters More Than the Stressor.