What does Risk mean?

TritonWear calculates your risk of injury based on your Readiness trends

In sports, some injuries are accidents or unavoidable, but some can be avoided easily by monitoring your training load. Our Readiness tool calculates training load over the last 28 days and uses established sports science to let you know if you are over or under-training.

Even if you are in the Safe Zone of training you will always have some injury risk. However, as you get into over or under-training territory, your risk rises. As Risk only indicates how elevated risk is, it needs to be combined with Status to know if the risk is due to over or under-training, so that it can be properly corrected. You can see some example states below:

The levels of Risk are:

Minimal: training load over the last 7 days is between 80 - 130% of the load incurred in the past 28 days. This is in the Safe Zone.

Slight: training load is either between 50 - 80% or 130 - 150%. Not a big concern, but try to increase or decrease load slightly in the coming days to return to the safe zone.

Moderate: the past 7 days training load is between 150 - 200% of the last 28 days. At this point action should be taken to return to the safe zone. Use the Readiness Recommendations and Readiness to Train Graph to correct this.

High: Training is well outside of the Safe Zone at 200 - 300% of your average load in the past 28 days. Your training is ramping up or tapering down too drastically. Use your recommendations to make the necessary corrections to your training plan to reduce this risk.

Severe: Training has changed to drastically in the past 7 days, more than 300% of your last 28 days. You cannot recover from this level quickly. Slowly increase or decrease by modifying volume or intensity, or both, over the next week or two to return to the safe zone. DO NOT STOP TRAINING, or suddenly do a ton of extra exercise, this will backfire.