Recovery Zone
The Recovery Zone tells you what the optimal amount of Recovery is.
The Recovery Zone guides you toward your optimal amount of recovery. Too little recovery can be deleterious for your health. But how much Recovery is enough? And when do I waste my time with too much sleep? These are questions answered by the Recovery Zone.
The Recovery Zone highlights an area on your Recovery Score. The closer you get to the Recovery Zone the better.
The Recovery Zone uses the sleep duration data collected during the last week. Think of the core of the Recovery Zone as a “sleep reservoir”. A shorter sleep (negative sleep debt) decreases your reservoir, while a longer sleep (positive sleep debt) increases it. Keep in mind, that your sleep debt also depends on the state of HRV and your activity.
Although it is true that you can’t bank sleep in advance, it is also true that having a baseline of good sleep with adequate length makes it easier for your body to compensate for one night with a short sleep duration.
Recovery Score
The Recovery Score shows how well you recovered last night.
Good recovery is key to being in balance. If you are active and/or have stress, your need for recovery increases. More Info: 🤔Why you should care about your recovery
The higher the score the better your recovery. The lower the score the worse your recovery.
What is optimal depends on your individual Recovery Zone. The Recovery Zone depends on your Activity Score and your Recovery Score on previous days.
- The more active you have been the days before, the higher your need for a good recovery
- The worse your recovery was on previous days, the higher your need for a good recovery
You can improve your Recovery Score by improving your Sleep Score and your Readiness Score. Check out 😴Recovery Improvements 101 for more information.
The Recovery Score is calculated by using data from the Sleep Score and the Readiness Score.
If you check out the pages (coming soon) for the Sleep Score and Readiness Score you will get a detailed explanation of the influencing variables.
- Sleep Efficiency (= time actually spend asleep while in bed)
- Sleep Duration (= total time spent asleep during one night)
- Raw Needed Sleep (= baseline sleep need in contrast to actual sleep time)
- HRV (= heart rate variability)
- RHR (= resting heart rate)
- Respiratory Rate
- Recovery Zone
- Activity Zone
- Stress Zone
The Recovery Zone is based on following Data
- HRV
- Resting Heart Rate
- Respiratory Rate
- Bedtime
- Wakeup time
The Recovery Score is based on following Data
- HRV
- Resting Heart Rate
- Respiratory Rate
- Sleep Score
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