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Recovery & HRV

Recovery score

DERecovery Score

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Recovery score is a generic category for vendor-defined composite metrics that estimate how well the body has recuperated from prior strain. Branding differs by device: Whoop calls its score Recovery, Garmin uses Body Battery and Training Readiness, and Oura uses Readiness. Inputs commonly include HRV, resting heart rate, respiratory rate, sleep duration, and sleep stages, though exact algorithms are proprietary. There is no scientific consensus on a standardized recovery score; values are not directly comparable across devices and should be interpreted as vendor-specific trends rather than diagnostic measurements.

Sources

  1. Halson SL. (2014). Monitoring Training Load to Understand Fatigue in Athletes. *Sports Medicine*doi:10.1007/s40279-014-0253-z
  2. Saw AE, Main LC, Gastin PB. (2016). Monitoring the athlete training response: subjective self-reported measures trump commonly used objective measures: a systematic review. *British Journal of Sports Medicine*doi:10.1136/bjsports-2015-094758