Training readiness would be great for an upcoming update !
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Hello everyone,
I have the Suunto Race for a few months and it is a great watch, very comfortable to wear and the metrics are quite accurate and now especially sleep tracking which has been an issue for lots of people. Even though the sleep stages differ from other devices but sleep and wake up time are on point.
As far as recovery is concerned, I genuinely think that a training readiness score would be great for the users to know if we are ready for our next adventure. All the competitors like Garmin or Amazfit have this feature native or from updated software. It would help us in staying consistent with our sport schedule and achieve our goals better and faster.
What do you guys think ? Do you want a training readiness score too ?
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@d-v You may benefit from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UULahZUMQM&t=1063s
The following features can be used to determine readiness:
First, your overall sleep data, primarily how long you slept.
Second, your gained resources overnight.
Third, your nightly HRV score
Fourth, your current Form result (the difference of CTL and ATL from previous day)I may be temporarily forgetting some other factors as my coffee starts its morning magic on me.
While I understand this is not one discrete number to use, for me I look at all of this data anyway, and a readiness number would unlikely tell me more than what the above does. I can see where Suunto may want to have such a feature to appeal to new users looking at Garmin, etc. from a feature standpoint, but as individuals, we are better served understanding the above factors for our training.
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@d-v I don’t think it will fit with Suunto’s approach to training - as I understand it.
There is that saying “Your Garmin will judge you”. Your Suunto won’t do this. Suunto will give you all the data needed, as @raven already wrote, and will happily educate you to judge for yourself whether you are ready or not. Also you get the Suunto Coach, that tells you some of the things that you might look closer at.
I think the education and the support to understand what you are actually doing is worth more than such a score. Like telling you the training model that you are following, but leaving you the freedom to decide, whether it is actually a good or a bad thing in the bigger picture…
However, what I love to see is a current recovery time. I’ve seen a video on an older version of the Race software and it seems like it has been in the Resources widget. But in the current version it isn’t there anymore…
