Incorrectly “Intense” Active Minutes Lowering My Readiness Score

[emoonae]

My Readiness Score frequently seems to be arbitrarily low when I have any Zone Minutes the day before. For example today, my readiness is 20; my Recent Sleep is “High” and my HRV is “Average”, but my Activity shows as “Intense”. Yesterday, I took a walk, during which I earned 12 Zone Minutes, which is less than half of my daily average of 28. A similar thing happened three days ago where my Readiness Score was 25 because my Activity registered as “Intense”, and I had earned a grand total of 5 Zone Minutes the day before—I don’t even know how I earned them. Why is this happening? Is there any way to fix it?

[LokeAa]

You can find information about "Daily readiness score, and how it is calculated HERE.

[emoonae]

I’ve looked at that, and based on this sentence: “Note that only activities that raise your heart rate to fat burn, cardio, or peak heart-rate zones impact your score,” I don’t think my measly 12 Active Minutes, which were all at the lowest “fat burn” level, should qualify as “Intense”. A couple weeks ago, I had a Readiness Score of 86 the day after 13 Active Minutes, with Sleep and HRV at the same level (“High” and “Average”, respectively) but, for some reason, those 13 minutes registered correctly as “Light”. There just doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.

[LokeAa]

You are sure your personal settings (gender,age....)are coorect? Same with Heart Rate Zones. If one or more basic data settings is incorrect, Daily....Score will be false.

[MajorTawm]

I'd say that since this is a personal device it was intense for your past activity, I am not a very active person so any day I "overdo"  myself it will lower my readyness score.

Si you can see as intense for your avg activity daily. That's how I see it. 

[emoonae]

My current average Zone Minutes is 26. Yesterday, it showed as 28, and since 12 minutes is quite a bit lower than that, I don’t think that is the issue.

[emoonae · Accepted solution]

Yep. I’m coming up on my eight year anniversary as a Fitbit owner, and all my details are correct (I just checked). There was a Sense update this morning, and one of the updates listed in the app concerned the Readiness Score, so I’m hopeful that whatever was making it wonky has been addressed.