Readiness is Kenso's daily read on how recovered you are, shown as a score out of 100 with a short summary and the reasons behind it. It draws on your connected health data when available, and on your recent training when it isn't, so you always get a reading even without a wearable connected.

Where to find it

Home screen (the readiness dial) and Recovery page (the readiness ring at the top).

What feeds it

When a wearable or Apple Health is connected, readiness draws primarily on your biometrics (HRV, sleep, and resting heart rate) with your recent training folded in as a modifier. Without a connected source, it estimates from your training pattern alone: how often you've trained, how recently, and how those sessions went. A reading built this way is marked as an estimate, and improves once you connect Apple Health, Oura, or Whoop.

Reading the score

The score sits in one of three bands (green, yellow, or red) with a plain-language summary above a short list of reasons. Tapping into the reading opens a fuller breakdown ranked by how much each signal is driving today's number: things like HRV, sleep, resting heart rate, and training load, each labeled with how it compares to what's typical for you (Strong, Low, Expected, and so on).

Alongside the readiness score, Recovery also shows two related reads: Fatigue (how your recent training load compares to your baseline, a Pro feature) and Energy (whether you're in a calorie deficit or surplus today, free for everyone).

Effect on your training targets

A low readiness reading is one of the inputs Kenso weighs when deciding whether to hold or reduce your targets for a session, alongside your recent performance on that exercise. It's an input, not an override: you can still train harder than a low reading suggests, and Kenso won't stop you. See Why Kenso lowered my weight or held my targets for the full picture of when targets move.

Good to know

  • If you don't have a connected wearable yet, Home and Recovery both offer a Connect Apple Health prompt right from the empty state.
  • Per-muscle recovery is a separate, related reading. See Muscle recovery: which muscles are ready today.