Treat readiness as a signal for today's decision
A readiness score usually blends sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, recent activity and how tired you are. Every product weights them differently, but the question to ask is always the same: does this change what I do today?
We treat readiness as one input next to your recent workouts, load, schedule, race timing, injury notes and anything you tell us. One number never runs the whole plan.
What a low score can actually mean
A low score might mean a rough night, a hard week, travel, stress, a cold coming on, or a sensor having an off morning. What to do about it depends on today's workout and the week around it.
If today was an easy aerobic run anyway, we may leave it alone. If it was intervals or a long brick, we might lower the intensity, shorten it or put an extra easy day before the next hard one, as long as the rest of your data points the same way.
What a high score doesn't mean
A high score doesn't mean you can hammer every session. You still need steady progression, balance between sports, a taper that respects the calendar and enough easy volume to absorb the hard days.
Use a high score as confidence. If readiness is good and your recent load is under control, that's a good reason to run your big session exactly as planned.
Trends matter more than one odd morning
Three bad nights, fatigue that keeps creeping up and a couple of missed workouts tell a much clearer story than one strange score after a sensor blip.
We explain trends in training terms: keep this week easy, move the hard session, hold steady, or start adding race-specific work.
Restraint is where the performance comes from
Readiness helps most when it stops you from forcing hard work on the wrong day. Monday's chart doesn't matter much. The next session does.
So CorrCoach ties readiness to the workouts on your plan. Its job is to change a session when that's the right call.
Questions athletes ask
Is readiness the same as fitness?
No. Fitness is the capacity you build over months. Readiness is how prepared you look for training today, based on recent recovery and load.
Can readiness metrics be wrong?
Yes. Sensor quality, missing sleep data, travel, illness and odd schedules can all throw it off. We read it next to the rest of your data so one number never runs the plan.