Wahoo launches My Readiness with Oura data and training context

Wahoo Fitness and Oura have announced a partnership that brings Oura data into My Readiness, a new feature in the Wahoo App.

Oura Readiness Score provides insights into overall recovery, while Wahoo’s My Readiness combines physiological data from Oura with an athlete’s training history to put recovery in the context of training. It integrates heart rate variability, resting heart rate and sleep data from Oura and reads it against each athlete’s training history using Wahoo’s sports science.

The Wahoo App then recommends activities to match how ready the athlete is that day.

Readiness built around training

Wahoo says My Readiness brings recovery and training together by combining physiological data from Oura with training history to calculate a Recovery Response score, regardless of which device or platform recorded the workouts.

Recovery Response is considered alongside Training Capacity and Mental Capacity to determine the athlete’s overall My Readiness state.

For example, a drop in HRV and a rise in resting heart rate after hard VO2 max intervals can be treated as the expected cost of that session, leading to an endurance-ride recommendation. If the same dip appears after an easy week, with no training load to explain it, My Readiness can flag it as an anomaly and recommend holding back.

Three measures

• Recovery Response: how well the body is responding to training, based on HRV, resting heart rate and sleep data.
• Training Capacity: the balance between long-term and short-term training load, calculated from Wahoo App history using Dimensional Training Load and its 4DP and 3DP profiles for running and cycling.
• Mental Capacity: how ready the mind is to perform, based on a 90-second daily reaction-time test and check-in.

Wahoo also calculates each athlete’s sleep needs from training intensity and accumulated sleep debt.

Oura members can connect their account in the Wahoo App and import up to 90 days of history to establish a personal baseline. All generations of Oura Ring are supported. My Readiness is free for Wahoo App users, while an active Oura membership is required.

Gareth Joyce, CEO at Wahoo, said: “Athletes have increasingly more data. What they’re often missing is context. My Readiness from Wahoo reads recovery data from Oura against every workout an athlete has done, using the same power-based sports science behind 4DP/3DP.”

Holly Shelton, chief product officer at Oura, said: “By bringing Oura data into My Readiness, Wahoo gives that data the context of the work an athlete has actually done. We’re excited to be the first wearable to connect, and to help our members turn their recovery insights into confident decisions about when to push and when to rest.”