23/09/2026
Everyone’s obsessed with recovery scores right now.
Green means go, red means rest, and we’ve handed the decision over to it.
Here’s what the data doesn’t tell you.
Those scores are built on averages and trends. They read your HRV, your resting heart rate, your sleep, and they’re genuinely useful for spotting when something’s off over time. But they measure your body against itself on a normal day. They were never built for the abnormal. For selection. For nights. For the deliberate, temporary overreaching that actually forces adaptation.
You have to train in a fatigued state to teach your body to perform in one. Every hard block, every bit of real progress, happens while your recovery metrics look bad, because that’s what stress and adaptation actually is. If you only ever trained on green, you’d never overload enough to improve.
The skill isn’t reading the watch. It’s knowing the difference between fatigue you push through and fatigue you respect. Injured or ill, rest, But flat, tired, unmotivated, and looking for a reason not to go? That reason shouldn’t come from a screen.
Because the day it matters, nobody’s going to check if you were ready. You’ll just have to be.
