Blog · October 17, 2026

Readiness, explained: why your score says 62

A readiness score is only useful if you know what’s in it. Here’s exactly what Aurek counts, why, and where the limits are.

General information, not medical advice. Check with a doctor before starting a new program, especially with an injury or a medical condition.

The four parts

Aurek’s readiness is a score from 1 to 100, from four parts, each scored 0 to 100:

1. How you feel: energy and mood from a 10-second morning check-in.
2. Soreness: from the same check-in.
3. Sleep: last night against your own need, your recent sleep debt, how regular your nights are and how well you slept.
4. Nutrition: yesterday’s calories, protein and water against your own targets.

Sleep counts most. The lowest part gets a little extra say, so one bad night isn’t averaged away by a good mood. Anything you haven’t logged is left out, not guessed, and a food day that doesn’t look fully logged isn’t judged.

Why a check-in, not just a watch

It’s tempting to trust a sensor over a feeling. But a systematic review of how athletes respond to training found that simple self-reported measures, like mood, perceived stress, soreness and fatigue, tracked training load more reliably than many common objective markers [1]. Questionnaires on sleep, fatigue, stress and soreness have been used to watch for overtraining for decades [2]. That’s why the check-in carries real weight.

Why sleep counts most

Adults are advised to sleep 7 or more hours a night regularly [3]. In athletes, sleep loss is linked with worse performance on some tasks and with how hard exercise feels [4]. Aurek judges sleep against your own need and your recent debt, rather than one fixed number.

Why yesterday’s food

Training well needs enough energy and protein, matched to the work [5]. A day well under your targets is a reason to go a little easier; it isn’t a judgment on what you ate.

So why does it say 62?

Tap “Why 62?” on Today. Each part shows its score and its share. Often it’s one part: a short night, or a lot of soreness after a hard day. A 62 doesn’t mean skip the gym; it means the plan holds back a little, and it tells you what it changed.

What readiness can’t do

• It’s a wellness estimate to guide training, not a medical measurement. It doesn’t detect illness or injury.
• It only knows what you log. A night you don’t log isn’t counted.
• If you feel unwell or something hurts, rest or see a professional, whatever the score says.

Sources

1. Saw AE, Main LC, Gastin PB. Monitoring the athlete training response: subjective self-reported measures trump commonly used objective measures: a systematic review. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016;50(5):281–291.
2. Hooper SL, Mackinnon LT. Monitoring overtraining in athletes: recommendations. Sports Medicine. 1995;20(5):321–327.
3. Watson NF, et al. Recommended amount of sleep for a healthy adult: a joint consensus statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society. Sleep. 2015;38(6):843–844.
4. Fullagar HHK, et al. Sleep and athletic performance: the effects of sleep loss on exercise performance, and physiological and cognitive responses to exercise. Sports Medicine. 2015;45(2):161–186.
5. Thomas DT, Erdman KA, Burke LM. American College of Sports Medicine joint position statement: nutrition and athletic performance. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 2016;48(3):543–568.

Written by the Aurek team. This post describes how the app works today; the app’s own “Why?” sheets show the same numbers.