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What it means
Training readiness answers a simple question: how reasonable is it to give your body serious load today?
It is useful when you can see what affected it: sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, or recent load.
Readiness helps choose the day’s intensity: keep load high, hold it moderate, or reduce it.
How it differs from recovery
Recovery describes your state after sleep, stress, and load. Readiness indicates whether that state supports changing today's training.
It can also matter on a day with unusually high work or life stress.
What signals it needs
- sleep and sleep quality;
- HRV compared with your baseline;
- resting heart rate;
- recent training load;
- how you feel and your general stress level.
Readiness becomes easier to trust when sleep, HRV, heart rate, and load are seen together.
How to use readiness
Check the score and the readings under it in the morning, compare them with how you feel, then adjust training or the overall load of the day.
How to use readiness without fooling yourself
- Do not read readiness away from sleep and load.
- Do not cancel the whole plan because of one bad morning.
- Look for repeated signals.
- Use it as an adjustment, not as the only rule.
Where to go next
To see how this appears in Arry, open the Apple Watch readiness page. If you want to see how readiness connects to fatigue and volume, open the training load page.
Check readiness in the morning, then adjust the load
Arry shows sleep, HRV, heart rate, and recent load beside the score.