What is the Readiness Score and what do I do with it?

The Readiness Score on the home screen is your daily steering wheel for the plan. It shows how ready Trait thinks you are for today's planned training.

What Trait takes into account

Trait also factors in extra strain that wasn't part of the plan – say, yesterday's tennis match that you gave a subjective rating. In a case like that, Trait lowers the score on its own, for example to 30% instead of the expected 70%.

What you can do yourself

• Lower the score: If you feel worse than Trait assumes (e.g. 30% instead of 60%), set the score lower yourself. That tells Trait: "I'm not where the plan says I should be today."
• Check out alternatives: Then tap today's session and choose Alternatives. Trait suggests options that match your score – from an easier session to a complete rest day. You can still run the session as planned if you want to. Details: I don't feel fit today – what should I do?
• Report sickness or injury: If you drag the score all the way down to 0%, Trait asks "What's going on?" and offers to pause your plan. See Sick or injured: pausing your plan and getting back into it.

If the score is missing or doesn't change

• There's no score at the very beginning: With a new account or after a fresh install without any history, Trait initially only shows that the score is still waiting for information. Trait doesn't yet know how your body responds to training load – the score only settles in after a few sessions. That's normal, not a bug.
• After training, the score is "locked" for the day: Once you've trained, Trait assumes that today's load is done and that the rest of the day plus the night are for recovery. The next morning, the score is recalculated with that recovery factored in. The time of day you train doesn't matter – whether you ran in the morning or at 9 pm.

Many users don't know about this flow because it isn't obvious at first glance – yet it lets you adapt the plan to your form and your daily life practically every day. Why Trait doesn't simply rewrite the plan for you instead is explained in Why doesn't Trait automatically rewrite my plan?