Readiness Score
Readiness Score is a composite index that combines multiple physiological and behavioral metrics into a single daily summary. The score integrates data from sleep, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, body temperature, activity levels, and other inputs to produce a number typically scaled 0β100. Higher scores indicate more favorable combined metrics; lower scores indicate one or more contributing factors were less favorable.
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Key Takeaways
Represents algorithmic combination of multiple metrics.
Higher scores indicate more favorable combined inputs.
Does not directly measure recovery or readiness capacity.
Individual metrics provide more specific information.
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How It's Measured
Oura calculates Readiness Score using a proprietary algorithm that combines weighted inputs from multiple metrics.
Common Influences
Sleep quality: Poor or insufficient sleep typically reduces the score.
Deep Dive
Readiness Score represents an algorithmic summary of the body's measurable state based on available inputs. It attempts to integrate multiple signals into an easily interpretable single value.
A useful framing is that the readiness score aggregates information. Rather than requiring interpretation of HRV, resting heart rate, sleep quality, and other metrics individually, the score provides a combined summary. The score reflects the algorithm's weighting of these inputs, not a direct measurement of any biological readiness state.
The concept behind readiness scoring draws from research on recovery, autonomic balance, and the relationship between physiological metrics and subsequent performance or adaptation capacity. However, readiness scores are algorithmic constructs rather than validated physiological measurements.
Contributing factors typically include autonomic indicators (HRV, resting heart rate), sleep metrics (duration, efficiency, timing), body temperature, and recent activity levels. Each factor provides partial information about physiological state; the score combines them according to proprietary weighting.
The score reflects measurable inputs, not the full complexity of actual recovery status or capacity.