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WHOOP - 4.0

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"It’s been great for balancing strain/recovery/sleep. ... so having Whoop tell me which days I should go harder or lighter has made such a difference in my training regiment!"


"I do like the sleep metics. ... It’s not as simple as “did I sleep well” or “did I get enough sleep”. To me anyway, actual numbers are more informative. ... And keeping up with the journal helps — I found that my sleep was generally worse on work-from-home days, for example. Then I could modify and be sure I was active during the day."


"I’d say the behavior journaling/insights is a killer feature that distinguishes whoop from its competitors. ... a ton of whoop users reduce their alcohol consumption substantially because this feature is great at showing you how alcohol impacts recovery. in money saved on booze, whoop probably pays for itself for a good chunk of its users."

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"Whoop is significantly more comfortable for 24/7 wear ... After 5 years of continuous use, comfort has never been an issue"


"Additionally Whoop is simply comfortable to use 24/7."


"And I particularly like wearing it for weeks without taking it off."

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"I love how it… has no screen"


"Why didn’t you try Whoop? This is exactly what you want"


"no other device gives me the distraction free data I crave."

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"I do like the sleep metics. ... It’s not as simple as “did I sleep well” or “did I get enough sleep”. To me anyway, actual numbers are more informative. ... And keeping up with the journal helps — I found that my sleep was generally worse on work-from-home days, for example. Then I could modify and be sure I was active during the day."


"It’s been great for balancing strain/recovery/sleep. ... so having Whoop tell me which days I should go harder or lighter has made such a difference in my training regiment!"


"It’s really the whole scoring system I pay attention to. Not just sleep. I use it to adjust habits. ... - I’ve reduced drinking to only a few times a month. ... - I have added magnesium before bed for deeper sleep ... - I move rest days around if I need to if readiness is low ... - I add in extra cardio if the activity goal suggest more movement"

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"wireless charging while in use"


"The charging is on-wrist which is amazing for consistency. If you never take it off, you never forget to put it back on."


"wireless charging while in use"

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"Support had me go through all the usual troubleshooting steps — no fix. ... I was told a replacement had been “processed” and would ship. ... It’s now been nearly two weeks and my order is still showing as “processing”. ... I’ve exchanged 24+ emails with Support. The replies are all scripted apologies and vague “please wait” responses. ... Their site promises 3–5 days for new orders, yet for a replacement I’ve paid almost $500 for, I’ve received nothing. ... I’ve asked for a refund policy and escalation, but I keep getting ignored."


"Ecovacs has the worst after sales of any company in any place of the world I have ever experienced. ... The company won’t take responsibility and goi around in circles. ... They wasted more than 6 months after talk to multiple people and site visits and it was escalated till the head of the after sales who I will name clearly: Tanmay Gangani, who is an absolute unprofessional and blatant liar with no sense of responsibility and ethics."


"I have never faced such a horrible service from any products in my life. ... Their service is ridiculous. ... The technician would come home and then inspect the device and raise a ticket for the spare part. So the spare part will be couriered to the customer directly after 2 or 3 weeks. Once this reaches your home, the technician will come again and replace that part. This is ridiculous. ... They don't provide service, they don't provide warranty. ... n one of my friends case, they had denied warranty saying there is fungus on board and its caused by water damage."

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"The thing whoop is giving me is wildly inaccurate HR readings. ... Did a casual bike ride with my child yesterday afternoon and whoop gave me a 187 high HR. This was a really slow like 4 block bike ride. ... AW said 108hr peak. Ive biked hard, ran as hard as possible doing max HR tests with my H10 chest strap and never hit above high 160s. ... Im not sure whats going on but its been doing this type of odd HR readings all week."


"I had Whoop for three months and it started showing a very bad data. Like catastrophicly bad. ... Bought Polar chest strap to check my HRV, it was VERY different and was showing me my normal data, data that whoop originally showed to me as well until three months into use it stopped."


"HR reading on Whoop are known for being absolutely aweful. ... Better having an accurate reading every 5 minutes than multiple bad readings every seconds. ... Whoop has awesome software and data analysis, but makes it somehow unusable because of bad hr data in. ... If HR accuracy is not a problem for you, and only follow "very general trends", yeah Whoop is a cool product. But if you are at some minimal point serious about HR accuracy, for real sport / performance / improvment, you cannot relly on it. ... If a Polar device, Garmin, apple watch says it's at 80 with readings every minute or so, and whoop says 65 every seconds, your "constant readings" are not worth anything. Garbage in, garbage out. ... Even counting it manually with a timer and my finger on my neck would be more accurate. ... their linear HR sensors are poor quality, and not the ideal way of positioning them (VS circular patern)."

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"the muscular load, the cardio/muscular split, and the intensity didn’t match my perception at all ... and it doesn’t show history/trends per exercise or velocity ... I stopped using it completely, waiting for them to release improvements (which never came - then I cancelled my membership). ... Currently, I don't see how the whoop strength trainer would be *useful* for strength / hypertrophy."


"HRV isn’t a reliable metric of readiness for strength training, to adjust your strength training sessions on a daily basis, based on the current overall body of research ... that wouldn’t really work if the main goal was to maximize strength (and/or muscle growth). ... For my strength training, I'd basically ignore HRV (and whoop recovery / day strain recommendation)"


"wave tracking is shit anyway"

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"got rid of the monthly subscription too"


"This was the promise: You pay for a super-expensive subscription. You don't get enough value for it every month, but when we upgrade our hardware, you get it for free. ... This is what they did: They created a "slightly upgraded" version and called it Whoop 5. And they also created an "actually, significantly upgraded" version, and they called it Whoop MG. And they decided that the "actually upgraded" version will not be free for the people who believed the company's promise and paid the overpriced subscription for years. Instead, if you want the "actually upgraded" version, you will have to pay even more. ... I can't trust you not to release a paywalled Whoop 6 after I upgrade."


"the constant subscription 😭"

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"This was the promise: You pay for a super-expensive subscription. You don't get enough value for it every month, but when we upgrade our hardware, you get it for free. ... This is what they did: They created a "slightly upgraded" version and called it Whoop 5. And they also created an "actually, significantly upgraded" version, and they called it Whoop MG. And they decided that the "actually upgraded" version will not be free for the people who believed the company's promise and paid the overpriced subscription for years. Instead, if you want the "actually upgraded" version, you will have to pay even more. ... I can't trust you not to release a paywalled Whoop 6 after I upgrade."


"upgrading would mean I would lose all the bands I had purchased over the years ... still raging about this"


"Whoop pulling the upgrade fee move was the last straw."

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01chevysil • 11 months ago

honestly not sure why a lot of the reviews here are negative, the only thad thing i could say is the steps tracker but it’s also the beta version🤷🏽‍♂️and im not really worried about steps. I highly recommend whoop to everyone so welcome to the team💪🏽

r/whoop • Ordered a whoop band despite the negative reviews here ->
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1Brick1 • 3 months ago

The only problem I have found with this is it’s very bad a step tracking when on the bicep. It does well when you are running or on a walk but doing regular old stuff it doesn’t do the best at steps

r/whoop • How many wearables is too many?! ->
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1Ohrs • about 1 month ago

yea i wear both aw on the left whoop on the right. they are both good for different things and having the whoop gives me some peace of mind about my apple watch charge like i don’t stress about if it dies cause ik the whoop is running

r/whoop • Wearing an Apple Watch AND a Whoop? ->
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1Ohrs • 25 days ago

currently use aw s8 and whoop. i love the setup, i know ill always have sleep data cause the chances of me letting both die are very small and i know i have the constant metrics from whoop and use aw for daily stuff and workouts

r/whoop • Worth it? Already have Apple Watch ->
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3820096369 • 8 months ago

My HONEST review of the 5 MG. So to start with, I'm not an athlete, I go to the gym every now and again, and try to stay fairly active. What I am... is a tech guy, a stats guy, someone who loves data. Last year, I discovered the Whoop 4 after seeing ads for it on social. I spent most of the year wearing one until I had some health problems in December. I had to have some tests, and one critical piece of information that would have been useful was a baseline ECG reading. I couldn't provide it, and it actually hindered my recovery. That was the day I stopped wearing a Whoop, and bought an Apple Watch. Fast forward to today. My MG arrived a few days ago and I'm now back to all the data I used to love with the addition of an ECG and BP. I'll start with the BP reading. We have a blood pressure machine at home so it was straight forward for me to calibrate the MG. Initial results suggest it's pretty accurate, but time will tell. I'll do comparisons over the next few months. Not onto the ECG. Look.. it's ok, it's not as good as Apple's. It's harder to use, seems to be fairly accurate but can give some odd results if not held very specifically. It does the job for me. Let's talk about the quality of the band and device. The device feels premium, the band and clasp feel cheap AF. Because, let's be real with ourselves, they ARE cheap. The material is cheap. The finish isn't particularly amazing. When third parties produce an MG band I'll be first to try them. The packaging felt cheap, it didn't feel expensive at all. I often keep my tech boxes, I won't be keeping this. As for everything else, the app, the functionality, well yeah it's what I loved before. Now... price. I pay monthly. I pay £39. Is it worth that? No, that's pretty ridiculous in my eyes. Am I willing to pay it? Yeah.. because no other device gives me the distraction free data I crave. Do I agree with all the moaning here and concerns? Yeah, you're all valid, Whoop took the piss and have moved the goalposts. But I'm a sucker for tech, and most of you are too, so even though I disagree with their practices we're all going to fall in line and consume. Let's be honest. Short version: It's a good device, new features are decent, it's overpriced but unique to the market.

r/whoop • My HONEST review of the 5 MG. ->
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666fuckyou • 7 months ago

Whoop works well on Android and is comfortable, haven't taken mine off since I got it last year

r/GarageGym • Best Fitness Tracker Right Now? Help! ->
Negative
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87crz • 4 months ago

Wenn dir valide Daten wichtig sind, würde ich zu einem Gerät greifen, was eine Kompatibilität mit einem Brustgurt vorweisen kann. Die Daten von Whoop fand ich in meinem Vergleich über 4 Wochen damals ziemlich abschreckend, vor allem bei Kraft- und Intervalltraining war Garmin mit und ohne(!) Brustgurt mit wesentlich besseren Daten unterwegs.

r/FitnessDE • Meinungen zum neuen Polar Loop. ->
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9714PB • 4 months ago

Will tell you for sure Helio definitely isn’t for you, sleep tracking is cooked. Can’t even recommend Whoop bc the Step tracking on that is generationally bad. First world problems

r/Polarfitness • Polar Loop Underwhelming? ->
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A1rRa1d • 3 months ago

Does the step tracking normally work for you? To be honest, I’ve never had such an inaccurate tracking like on the whoop

r/whoop • How many wearables is too many?! ->
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aardvark_soup • 6 months ago

If you have an Apple Watch 9, you’re happy with it and it fits you’re lifestyle then why look for hype. If you want hype, buy hype but it should be about what you think is right for your needs. The Apple Watch is a smartwatch + fitness device. The whoop is a fitness device only. I had an Apple Watch for years and I liked it at the start but over time it became less suitable for me. I often work or study in environments where I must take off anything worn on the wrist. The whoop costs me more but I can wear it on the bicep and the battery is significantly longer. I personally prefer the whoop because it is more suitable for me. You have to decide what is right for you based on what you want from your wearable.

r/whoop • Is Whoop actually worth the hype? ->
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aardvark_soup • 3 months ago

If you need a watch you need a watch, but does it have to be smart? I would strongly recommend the bicep band. I only wear my whoop on the bicep as it is needed for work but it is also much more comfortable. If your Fitbit is dying and you are considering a garmin, just replace the Fitbit with a garmin and then decide if you also want a whoop. I don’t have garmin but I’ve seen many users doing side by side comparisons with garmin and whoop and seeing different results because they have different sensors. I can’t tell you if you shouldn’t buy 2 trackers. I myself have considered an Apple Watch addition in recent months because the whoop lacks GPS and carrying your phone while jogging is not always ideal. I bought the whoop because I work and study in environments where I’m not allowed to wear anything on my wrist or hands and regularly have to remove watches; the bicep band gives me something that no other wearable does. Don’t want to have both your wrists taken up, wear your whoop somewhere else; there are multiple options. I just don’t recommend having a whoop, garmin an Fitbit. The Fitbit seems redundant when you already have the two.

r/whoop • How many wearables is too many?! ->
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abstract_groove • 23 days ago

This is why I got a Whoop. All the activity and health tracking you need in a discreet device that has no display you can wear on your other wrist (or bicep) so you can wear a proper watch and sill monitor that data without looking goofy wearing two watches. Obviously you’ll have to give up the ‘wrist computer’ stuff.

r/Watches • [Discussion] Smartwatch Convenience vs. Mechanical Watch Beauty - Your Approach? ->
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abstract_groove • 23 days ago

There’s a lot of third party and different colour / material band options. Can also be worn on bicep so it’s not visible at all. A lot better option than wearing an Apple Watch on your other wrist. Oura ring is another option but I hate rings so discarded that option.

r/Watches • [Discussion] Smartwatch Convenience vs. Mechanical Watch Beauty - Your Approach? ->

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