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Training Readiness: Know When to Push, Know When to Back Off

Training Readiness is a daily score that reflects how prepared your body actually is to train. It pulls from four inputs: recent and long-term training load, sleep quality, and overnight body metrics including sleeping heart rate, HRV, wrist temperature, and respiratory rate. It also tracks short-term shifts in those metrics, catching trends before they become problems.

What to Do With It

The score maps to five levels, from Poor to Prime, each with a clear direction for the day. High readiness is a green light for demanding work. Low or poor means rest is the plan, not a suggestion.

Knowing why your readiness is where it is matters as much as the number itself. A hard training block, a few rough nights, or a body metric trending the wrong way all tell a different story and point to a different response.

Why It Is Worth Tracking Daily

Recovery is where adaptation happens. The most common way athletes stall long-term progress is accumulated overreach, not laziness. A readiness score gives you a clear basis to back off when needed and to push when you genuinely have the capacity.

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