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Sleep & body.

How your sleep score and morning readiness are worked out, what your resting heart rate is compared with, and how weigh-ins, body fat and your goal weight turn into progress and XP.

Sleep: last night scored 88, Excellent, 7 hours 32 minutes

Sleep score

Each night gets a score out of 100 from four parts: how long you slept, how you felt, how close you went to bed to your usual time, and how close you went to bed to your target bedtime.

PartMaxHow it's scored
Duration50Full 50 at your goal or up to 2 hours over it; under your goal, 50 × (hours ÷ goal)^1.6; more than 2 hours over loses 5 points an hour, to no less than 40
How you felt20Awful 0 · Poor 5 · OK 10 · Good 15 · Great 20 · not rated 12
Consistency1515 × (1 − minutes from your usual bedtime ÷ 120). Usual = median of the 8 nights before (needs 3, else 12)
Timing1515 × (1 − minutes from your target bedtime ÷ 150)

85 and up is Excellent, 70–84 Good, 55–69 Fair and under 55 Poor. With an 8-hour goal, duration is worth 24 points at 5 hours, 32 at 6, 40 at 7 and the full 50 from 8 to 10 hours.

Worked example 7 h 32 m, goal 8 h, felt Good, in bed 30 minutes after a 10:30 PM target, first nights logged
Duration: 50 × (7.53 ÷ 8)^1.645
Felt Good15
Consistency: not enough nights yet12
Timing: 15 × (1 − 30 ÷ 150)12
Sleep score84 · Good

Sleep week and debt

Your sleep week covers the last 7 mornings you woke up. A night belongs to the day you woke, and if two sleeps end the same day, the longer one counts.

Your sleep weeklast 7 wake-up days
7-day average = mean hours of the nights logged
sleep debt    = Σ max(0, goal − hours)   (nights not logged add nothing)
consistency   = 100 − 1.1 × spread of bedtimes in minutes   (standard deviation, needs 3 nights)

Your sleep goal is 8 hours by default (7–10), with bedtime 10:30 PM and wake-up 6:30 AM. Insights unlock after 3 nights, such as how a tag like caffeine or a late meal changes your sleep.

Logging sleep and XP

  • Tap Going to bed at night and I'm awake in the morning, log a night by hand, or let your watch or ring send it through Health Connect, with sleep stages.
  • Health Connect nights from the last 14 days are read. Stretches of sleep less than an hour apart join into one night, and anything under 2 hours is skipped.
Sleep XPRuleXP
Night logged3 hours or more+15
Sleep goal reachedWithin 15 minutes of your goal+40
In bed on timeWithin 30 minutes of your target bedtime+15

A logged night is also one of the things that keep your activity streak going, and some Trials ask for more sleep.

The sleep score is a simple guide based on your hours, how you felt, your timing and your consistency. It isn't a medical sleep test.

Readiness

Each morning Body › Today gives you a readiness score from last night's sleep, your resting heart rate and your training over the last two days.

Readinessweighted average
readiness = 0.5 × sleep score + 0.3 × heart + 0.2 × training

heart    = 94 − 9 × (bpm above usual) + 2 × (bpm below usual)   (0 to 100)
training = 100 − 0.7 × (minutes in the last 48 h − 30)          (25 to 100)

If a part is missing, the others are averaged with their own weights. It needs sleep or resting heart rate; training alone gives no score. 75 and up is "Ready to go", 50–74 "Take it steady" and under 50 "Recover today".

Worked example Sleep 84, resting heart rate 62 against a usual 59, 60 minutes trained in 2 days
Heart: 94 − 3 × 967
Training: 100 − 30 × 0.779
0.5 × 84 + 0.3 × 67 + 0.2 × 7977.9
Readiness78 · Ready to go

Heart rate

  • Your usual resting heart rate is the average of your readings from the 14 days before today. It needs at least 3.
  • Today's reading is today's, or yesterday's if there's none yet. A reading you type in beats one from your watch.
  • Labels: under 60 low (common in fit people), 60–80 typical, 81–100 the higher end, over 100 above the usual range.
  • Heart rate zones use a maximum of 220 − your age (at least 140), in bands of 50–60, 60–70, 70–80, 80–90 and 90–100%.

Weight, BMI and body fat

  • Weigh-ins come from you or from a smart scale through Health Connect, one a day. The chart's thick line is the average of your last 7 weigh-ins.
  • Change compares today with your latest weigh-in at least 7 days ago, and at least 30 days ago.
  • BMI = kg ÷ m². It's a rough guide: 18.5–24.9 is the usual healthy range, but it doesn't account for muscle.
  • Body fat on the Weight card is always a real reading. When you have no reading from the last 60 days, your avatar's body uses an estimate instead:
Estimated body fatDeurenberg, avatar only
body fat % = 1.2 × BMI + 0.23 × age − 10.8 × sex − 5.4
sex: 1 men · 0 women · kept between 6% (men) or 12% (women) and 55%

A 30-year-old woman at 5 ft 5 in and 140 lb has a BMI of 23.3 and an estimated 29.5%.

Goal weight

  • Goal weights go with Lose weight (below your latest weigh-in) or Build muscle (above it). Maintain and Endurance have none.
  • The goal has to be at least 2 lb (1 kg) away. A weight-loss goal can't go below a BMI of 18.5 for your height. A muscle goal can't be more than 20% above your current weight.
  • Goal body fat has to be at least 1% below your latest reading, and no lower than 6% for men or 14% for women.

Body XP

Progress toward your goal pays in steps of 1 lb (or 0.5 kg), counted from your best weigh-in. Losing or gaining too fast pays half, because slow and steady wins.

Body goal XPper 1 lb / 0.5 kg
toward your goal, healthy pace   +120
toward your goal, too fast       +60   (over 1% of your weight a week losing, 0.5% gaining)
moving away from your goal       −60   (won back when you return)
Body XPRuleXP
Weigh-inOnce a day+15
Body fat downEach 0.5% below your first reading+100
Lean mass upEach 0.5 kg, from weight × (1 − body fat)+120
Holding steadyMaintain or Endurance: 2+ weigh-ins a week, all within 2% of your start+80 a week
Goal weight reached25 per lb (or 0.5 kg) between your start and your goal100 to 1,000
Goal body fat reached50 per 0.5% between your start and your goal100 to 1,000
Worked examples
200 → 197 lb at 0.7% a week: 3 × 120360 XP
200 → 195 lb in a week (2.6%): 5 × 60300 XP
Goal reached, 200 → 180 lb: 20 × 25500 XP bonus

When you reach your goal weight, your goal switches to Maintain. Keep losing or Keep building puts the old goal back.

Health Connect

Levelwell only reads, and never writes, these seven types:

DataWhat's readWhere it goes
StepsDaily totals, last 7 daysSteps, step XP and quests, calories estimate
WeightUp to a year of weigh-insWeight chart, BMI, body goal XP
Body fatUp to a year of readingsWeight card, body fat XP, your avatar
Active caloriesToday's totalCalories burned
Heart rateToday and yesterdayHeart rate today
Resting heart rateLast 30 daysResting heart rate, readiness
SleepLast 14 days, with stagesSleep log, sleep score, readiness