Know whento push.
Elite Hockey HQ reads your WHOOP recovery, your HRV trend, your sleep, your training load, and your game schedule, and turns them into one readiness score with a plain call for today: push, maintain, pull back, or recover.
From last night's data to today's session.
Connect WHOOP, or just log
Link your WHOOP for recovery, HRV, and sleep. No wearable? The sessions and games you log still feed the score.
We combine what you have
Recovery, HRV trend, sleep, training load, and your game schedule are weighed into one readiness score from 0 to 100.
You get a call for today
The score maps to push, maintain, pull back, or recover, with a short recommendation for the session in front of you.
One score, one call for today.
Your readiness score lands in one of four bands, and each band is a training signal. On a pull-back or recover day with a program running, the app suggests a lighter variation of that session.
- Score 70–100Push
Recovered and ready. A good day for the hard part of the plan.
- Score 50–69Maintain
Train as planned, without adding extra volume or intensity.
- Score 30–49Pull back
Trim the session: lighter loads and fewer hard efforts.
- Score 0–29Recover
Keep today to recovery work and come back to the plan tomorrow.
Six inputs, weighed together.
Each input you have data for counts toward the score. Missing one — no wearable, no sleep data, no check-in — leaves it out instead of filling in a guess.
WHOOP recovery
Your recovery score, read from your connected WHOOP.
HRV trend
Your last three days of heart rate variability against your 14-day average.
Sleep
How long you slept and how efficiently.
Training load
Your recent load against your longer-term load, from the sessions you log plus the workouts WHOOP records — each session counted once.
Schedule
Where today sits around your games: game day, the day before, or the days after.
Daily check-in
How you feel this morning: energy, sleep quality and soreness, in a few taps.
Questions, answered.
- What is HRV and why does it matter for hockey?
- Heart rate variability reflects the state of your autonomic nervous system. Against your own baseline, a higher HRV usually means you are better recovered and a drop means you are carrying fatigue — which is why the readiness score reads your trend, not a single night.
- How accurate is Whoop's recovery score?
- WHOOP measures HRV, resting heart rate and sleep through the strap. No wrist wearable is a lab device, so the readiness score leans on your trend over several days rather than any single reading.
- Do I need a Whoop to use Elite Hockey HQ?
- No. Elite Hockey HQ works without a wearable — the sessions and games you log still feed your training load and readiness. WHOOP adds recovery, HRV and sleep on top.
- When should I check my recovery readiness?
- First thing in the morning, before caffeine or training. Whoop auto-computes recovery on wake so the score is ready before you decide how to train.
Keep exploring.
Train hard on the days
you're ready.
Connect a WHOOP or start logging, and let your readiness score make the call on how hard to go today.