How readiness is decided
Green, amber and red, and why you can always see the reason.
Readiness is a traffic light on each athlete, and it is deliberately boring. It is a set of rules you could check by hand. There is no model, no score out of 100 built from weights nobody can see.
Red fires if any red trigger fires. Amber fires if any amber trigger fires. Otherwise green. Every status arrives with its reasons attached, and each reason carries the figure behind it.
| Trigger | Level | Who owns the decision |
|---|---|---|
| Active injury in the log | Red | Physiotherapist |
| Wellness composite z below -1.5 | Red | Coach |
| ACWR above 1.5 | Red | S&C |
| Suppressed HRV together with poor wellness | Red | S&C |
| Wellness composite z below -1.0 | Amber | Coach |
| ACWR between 1.3 and 1.5 | Amber | S&C |
| Sleep under 6 hours | Amber | Coach |
| Any wellness item at 0, its worst value | Amber | Coach, or Nutritionist for nutrition and hydration |
| Anything written in the complaints box | Amber | Physiotherapist |
Thresholds are yours to set. The defaults above are reasonable starting points from the monitoring literature, not laws. Your S&C lead should own them and revisit them once you have a season of your own data.
What a red light is not
It is not a diagnosis, a prediction, or an instruction. It means look at this athlete before the session starts. The software will suggest reducing volume or modifying a session. It will never apply that change on its own, and it will never message an athlete without a named practitioner accepting it first.
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