Wearables and check-ins give you plenty of recovery data. Use it to ask better questions, not to rewrite a plan from one reading.
What to read
- Sleep hours, from a wearable or from the client.
- Resting heart rate and HRV, if the client wears a band.
- Soreness and mood, from the weekly check-in.
- Effort on the main lifts, from the session log.
Read the trend
One low reading means little. A week of lower readings is worth a message.
Compare each client with their own average. A score that is normal for one person is a bad week for another.
Read it against the training
Poor recovery and easy sessions is a quiet week. Poor recovery and sessions that felt harder than written is a reason to act.
That second case is the one to look for. It needs recovery and effort side by side.
When to change the plan
- Message the client first and ask how they feel.
- If effort is also running high, lower the load for one session.
- If it holds for two weeks, look at sleep, stress and food before the programme.
What a band cannot tell you
A band measures the body overnight. It does not know about a bad day at work or a sore knee.
Treat the score as a prompt to ask, and let the client answer.
Where Trainersight fits
Trainersight reads Whoop, Oura and Polar data next to the logged effort for each session. The coach sees both on one page.
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