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Readiness Score Doesn’t Take Into Account Swimming

‎04-01-2023 23:38

‎04-01-2023 23:38

I’ve been swimming regularly for 6 months now and have noticed that it doesn’t impact my daily readiness score the next day.

For example, yesterday I swam 1 mile (64 lengths, 1600 metres). It took 50 minutes and I gained 70 zone minutes. I felt tired and achy after it (in a good way!). However, I’ve woken up to a readiness score of 100 because it says I did very low activity yesterday. 

Compare this with Tuesday, when I did 30 mins of running on the treadmill, gaining 58 zone minutes. On Wednesday, I had a readiness score of 1 the, saying my activity was super high.

 

Does anyone know why this is?

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‎04-02-2023 03:52 - edited ‎04-02-2023 03:57

‎04-02-2023 03:52 - edited ‎04-02-2023 03:57

It's because Readiness Score is BS.

 

Edit: I will add little more. DRS uses AZM which is already a wrong thing to do as it blends together too many level of efforts. Swimming doesn't use HR, doesn't detect rest/swim, can't tell drills, can't even tell what stroke I swim which matters when it comes to energy efficiency (ie. butterfly has totally different impact from freestyle). AZM for swimming are at best imaginary and going back to the first thing - they shouldn't be used for DRS, it makes DRS useless.

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‎04-02-2023 04:07

In response to t.parker

‎04-02-2023 04:07

😂 I had a feeling this would be the case, but good to have someone else confirm it thank you.

 

Reminds me I should listen to what my body tells me re readiness/rest and not my Fitbit!

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