Readiness check
Your readiness score, from the questions the app asks on day one.
Tell us what you train for, how the last four weeks went and how you feel this morning. You get the score the PlayerPulse app would start you on, the reason behind it, what your training load says, and anything in your answers worth keeping an eye on.
Soreness is holding it down. Sleep is lifting it.
What you get
A report on your week, not a score on its own.
Your readiness score.
The figure the app would show on your first morning, with the answer holding it down and the one lifting it.
Your training load.
Your usual week as one number, then this week against your last four weeks. Move next week's plan and watch the score respond.
What to keep an eye on.
Flags from your own answers: too little strength work, one sport only, seasons that overlap, a recent injury, or short sleep.
How the score works
Wellness first. Load can only hold it down.
Two players can fill out an identical wellness report on a given morning, and be walking into very different physical situations.
The score starts from how you feel: four answers, each worth the same. Then your training load is checked against your last four weeks. In the range where this week matches what your body is used to, nothing comes off. Too little recent training, or a jump well above it, and the score is capped.
Sleep1 to 10
Energy1 to 10
Stress1 to 10
Soreness1 to 10Training load is this week against your last four.
Every session gets a load: how hard it felt, from 1 to 10, times the minutes. An hour at 6 is 360. Add up the week and set it against your last four weeks, with the most recent days counting most. That gives one ratio. Near 1, you are doing what your body is used to. Well under it, you are detraining. Well over it, you are overreaching.
How hard it felt1 to 10
Minutesper sessionSession loadone times the otherThe questions
Nine questions, and what each one does.
The same questions the app asks a new player. The ones in green set today's score. The rest go on your record and shape the report, and some of them raise a flag.
- What are you training for?Competitive sport or general fitness.
- Which sports do you play?From a list of forty-odd, or your own.
- When do you play them?The months of each season.
- Anything that kept you out?Injuries that cost you four weeks or more.
- How have you trained lately?Sessions a week, how long, how hard. This is your starting load.
- What have the last two weeks been like?Your usual, so today has something to compare with.
- Days a week in the gym?Lifting or structured resistance work.
- Could you play today?Available, limited or not available.
- How are you today?Your first wellness report. This is the wellness side of the score.
Your training app should know you had a match.
Start with the readiness check. Your report comes at the end, and you choose whether to save it.