Understand your readiness score on Apple Watch

In the Readiness app on Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, you can view a readiness score and a classification that helps you understand your capacity to take on activities during the day.

Readiness score classifications

Your readiness score ranges from 0-10:

• Go for it: 8–10

• Ready: 5–7

• Pace Yourself: 2–4

• Recover: 0–1

If you don't receive a readiness score

Make sure you've done the following:

• Entered your height, weight, and age under your Health Details.

• Set up Activity.

• Set up overnight vitals, and worn your watch while sleeping for at least 7 nights.

• Set up and enabled Sleep, and slept with your watch last night.

Learn how your readiness score is calculated

Your Activity data, daytime and overnight vitals, and sleep data factor into your overall readiness score.

• Activity: Activity from both today and your recent history can impact your readiness score. Active calories, workout effort ratings, and Training Load data are all used to calculate the score. Increased activity in general can reduce your score, while steady or reduced activity raises it. Additionally, you might see your score go down during the day after a workout or activity.

• Vitals: Readiness considers the status of your daytime and overnight metrics from the Vitals app. When your vitals indicate you're Notably or Slightly off, your score is reduced. When all of your metrics are Typical or Favorable, your score is raised. Higher-than-usual heart rate variability (HRV) can lead to Favorable vitals and a high readiness score.

• Sleep: Your sleep score from the previous night and your recent history can impact your readiness score. A low sleep score from poor-quality or inconsistent sleep can reduce your readiness score, while a high sleep score, or an improved sleep score, can raise your readiness score.