Topic Guide
Recovery & training: complete guide
Your body adapts to training during rest, not during the workout. Recovery is the variable that decides whether stress turns into stronger or weaker. This page collects every article on knowing when you are ready to train, when to back off, and how to read the metrics your wearable now shows.
Start here: foundational reading
Core concepts
Glossary
Readiness Score
The single number that summarizes whether to push or rest today.
Glossary
Training Load
Acute vs chronic load, the ratio that predicts injury risk.
Glossary
Strain Score
How wearables convert your day into a single workload number.
Glossary
Active Recovery
Why low-intensity work beats total rest for restoring HRV faster.
Glossary
Zone 2 Training
The slow cardio that mitochondria love, and the foundation of long-term aerobic fitness.
Glossary
Body Battery
Garmin's energy gauge, what feeds it and what drains it.
Calculators & tools
Tool
Recovery Score
Quick check of where today's recovery sits relative to your baseline.
Tool
Overtraining Check
Self-assessment with HRV-based criteria to flag chronic overload early.
Tool
Heart Rate Zones
Calculate your personalized HR zones from age, RHR, and max HR.
Tool
Training Readiness Guide
Step-by-step interpretation of all readiness signals on a single morning.
Related topics
MyBodyAI combines HRV, sleep, training load, and stress into one daily readiness score, across whichever wearables you use.
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