Guidance is a short card at the top of the FitRest Dashboard that answers one question: what should I do today? It reads your recovery, sleep, stress, effort and pace together and gives you one action, with a sentence that explains why using your own numbers.
The Guidance card has three parts. A small coloured eyebrow sums up your state, for example "GOOD RECOVERY, LOW EXERTION". A short verdict tells you what to do. A sentence underneath explains it, quoting your own figures so you can see where the advice came from. Some of the verdicts you might see:
Scores are useful, but on a busy morning nobody wants to weigh Recovery against Sleep against Stress and work out what it all means. The scores can also point in different directions: a decent Recovery after a short night, or a fresh body on a day that is already running high on stress. Guidance does that weighing for you and lands on one thing to do.
Consistently matching effort to readiness is one of the simplest ways to keep improving without burning out. Training hard when you are well recovered and easing off when you are not tends to beat sticking rigidly to a plan. Guidance makes that habit easy by turning your data into a plain decision you can act on in seconds.
Guidance would rather tell you why it cannot help than give you a wrong answer. If something is missing you see a reason instead, such as "Check Health access.", "Recovery needs overnight data.", "Last night is still syncing." or "Wear your tracker to bed tonight."
It works best with a watch worn overnight, because your overnight data makes the advice more personal. With iPhone alone, Guidance falls back to movement-only advice: your steps and workouts still count.
The same suggestion appears as the Guidance row on the Today page of the FitRest Apple Watch app, so you can check it on the way out of the door. If a suggestion is not right for your day, long-press the card on iPhone and choose Not today to dismiss it.
Guidance reads your recovery, sleep, stress, exertion and activity pace together and picks the one action that fits them best. The explanation under each verdict quotes the numbers it used.
Partly. Recovery and stress need a watch worn overnight, so with iPhone alone Guidance gives movement-only advice based on your steps and workouts.
Your watch has not finished passing last night's sleep and heart data to Apple Health yet. Give it a few minutes with your iPhone nearby and the suggestion will update.
No. Guidance is about what to do today, so it appears for today only.
A 0-100 readiness score each morning that tells you how well your body recovered overnight, judged against your own normal.
A 0-10 score for today's cardiovascular load, with a daily target zone that fits how ready you are.
A 0-100 reading of the physical stress your body is carrying, with a 24-hour curve and a longer-term trend.
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FitRest reads the data already in Apple Health, so there is nothing to set up beyond granting access.
iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Requires iOS 17 or later.