Sense - How do I interpret daily readiness score?

[PumpkinPi]

Can someone please help shed some light on the daily readiness score. It doesn't make sense at all...most days I have a good sleep score because I slept enough, but my sleep always averages at below my target.

And now today, it is showing my activity intensity is high so I'm not ready to exercise, yet my total active minutes for the last week was 1 minute 2 days ago...

It just feels to me the scores are getting all mixed up like they've confused sleep with activity 🤷🏻‍:female_sign:. All other functions and tiles track fine. Just readiness that completely confused me.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[Hingane]

@t.parker thank you for this. I need to think what is my next "move"........

[Hingane]

Ok, thank you for this information.

Yes i have done the same with my suunto cheststrap years ago and now i just hoped that i could have done the same with fitbit.

I just need to think what is my next move.

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi everyone, and welcome to our new members.

Thanks for taking the time to share your insights about the daily readiness score, and the screenshots provided. I understand your concerns and appreciate your efforts while researching more about this stat. As you may know, this score is generated based on the activities that raise your heart rate to fat burn, cardio or peak heart-rate zones, your sleep and heart-rate variability; which at the end will show you whether you're ready to work out, or if you need to rest instead.

Please note that those three elements are required and each of them will impact your score. If you haven't done so, I'd recommend reviewing this help article so you can learn more about the daily readiness score, the ranges and how it's calculated.

@t.parker and @eezeepee Thanks for your great insights and suggestions.

[Hingane]

My daily sleep avarage is 5h42min its been ruff week and my last two days has been 3 hours of sleep and my recent sleep score is High almost full, there has to be something wrong with this.....

[Hingane]

@LizzyFitbit 

@t.parker 

How is this possible? Resent sleep high?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[eezeepee]

What did you set your your sleep hours go to?

[Hingane]

@eezeepee what do you mean?

[eezeepee]

@Hingane Had a few typos. What do you set your "Time asleep goal" to? If it's only 5 hours, then I can see why it's saying high.

[Hingane]

@eezeepee It is 8 hours

[eezeepee]

Yeah that makes no sense at all. 

[Gr4ndp4]

Hi, @Hingane, you may find this article on "Sleep" of interest How do I track my sleep with my Fitbit device? 

I hope this helps.

Cheers

[Hingane]

@Gr4ndp4 Thank you for your input but the article did not help in anyway, my settings and logs are correct just the resent sleep is giving me way too hight points.

I'll try to change the sleepgoat from 8 hours to 8hours and 1 minute, if there is a bug i hope this will make it to work.

[eezeepee]

@Hingane How's your actual sleep scores and restoration numbers? Maybe those are still "good" even though you're not hitting your sleep goal.

[Hingane]

@eezeepee nothing changed after i changed my sleep settings, recent sleep is stil hight and maxed out and my actual sleepscore is Good (80) This is so weird.....

[eezeepee]

@Hingane Yeah I'm willing to bet that as long as you have good actors (80-89), it'll still get you to a "high" sleep in readiness.

[Hingane]

@eezeepee My sleapscore is fair and in daily rediness Recent sleep is high, there has to be something wrong

[eezeepee]

@Hingane  But you had said sleep score good previously. Are you getting mostly fair or mostly good?

[Hingane]

@eezeepee i dont know how it can bee good if my sleep is 5 hours?

this week my sleep has been 6-7 last week it was 5 hours.

[Tawny0528]

I agree it doesn't make sense to me either. I've also noticed that no matter what my readiness score is it tells me to exercise about the same amount of time which is a range of thirty something minutes to forty something minutes...except one day it told me not to exercise at all because I only got 3 hours of sleep the night before. At this point I'm listening to my body more than anything and I just only cut my treadmill time short if both my body and fitbit agree my score is low and recuperation is needed.

[rbittman]

My impression, after using this Fitbit Readiness score AND Garmin’s  Body Battery feature for a longish time,(about a year on both) that Readiness needs a tuneup.
Body Battery seemed to score more on HR and HRV, giving a more accurate report on how much energy a person has left. It was also “continuous,“ meaning it offered a graph over the day, so you could see how you were doing over time. 
In contrast, Readiness seems to not account much (or not heavily enough) for anything other than yesterday’s AZM. As we know, AZM are easy to acquire by just walking fast, for example. In other words, your Readiness score will decrease rapidly even with lower intensity workouts, so long as you accumulate AZM. I think this needs fixing. Readiness should focus more on gas left in the tank, not on yesterdays minutes. That can be measured using real time physiological factors. Fitbit needs to change this.