WHOOP - Strap 3.0

I’m testing the waters right now. 3 years with an AWU and Whoop to a F8 Pro. I’ve had a Garmin watch with LTE on my wish list for a while now and jumped at the opportunity when it was released. Satellite connectivity made it a no brainer. I spend a considerable amount of time away from cellular reception. I got rid of my inReach when the iPhone got satellite capabilities. I was leaning on LTE on my AWU for emergency rescue when I was near civilization but it burned me once in rural Kansas when I didn’t have my phone. I prefer not to carry a phone with me while on long distance bike rides (gravel) or ultra distance trail runs. I’m getting used to Garmin body battery and similar from Whoop strain and recovery metrics. The golf experience on Garmin is kind of great. Battery life is a HUGE win over AWU. Heart rate broadcast fills a small void that kept me from ditching Whoop, and Whoop could never keep up with HIIT and rapid HR changes. I haaaaate notifications on my wrist; that’s the first thing I turned off when I got the AWU or F8Pro. If I don’t have my phone with me, I don’t want to be reachable. I still have my AWU but I think it’s going to end up on eBay.

I have been a Whoop wearer for 4 years. I have had a Garmin 945 for 5. This is exactly my use case—run and strength (and whatever else) with the Garmin and whoop for the overall experience.

I wear my BB58 and other watches in my collection on my left. Whoop strap on my right. It's the perfect product for me. Decent battery life, all the fitness tracking data I want and it doesnt look like a watch so works with a watch on the other wrist. Highly recommend.

I use a WHOOP fitness strap. It has the zones and activities

I was upset when it was 3.0 to 4.0. I've been a loyal follower since the beginning. But this really is a slap in the face to people who have paid the subscription prices and also bought all the accessories each time they put out a new f****** b******* upgrade with substandard hardware. Had had to rebuy everything (3 to 4). Frankly, I don't care what they've done. I'm tired of this. What's next? 2 years it's 6? Buy everything again. Get chipped on the f****** prices we've paid. No thank you. Cut your losses. Go to Garmin, go to an apple, go to anything but whoop.

It’s always been way behind the market. As recently as the 3.0 it would register routine walks as stress stress workouts because the motion made it think HR was 160+

It's fun, learning metrics and knowing your body throughout your life. Allows you to be more productive. However, it would be nice to have interoperability. The challenge is there, and could make it possible to reach as many whoopers as possible, to cross-reference data from different health and sports tools, to combine Garmin + Whoop in order to have a more advanced algorithm. Do not immerse yourself in a closed ecosystem. Let us not forget that Europe is fighting in this direction. To talk about connected rings, autonomy is the first negative point, another negative point is congestion in the hands and fingers. Incompatibility with bodybuilding, climbing and other sports. From the moment you choose this type of product, you must be aware that it will be scratched, removing it in certain conditions is difficult. In addition to the negative points that I mentioned and many others that I did not mention. We must salute the work in R&D and engineering in terms of miniaturization. It remains quite niche. To conclude, I use Whoop 24/7 - 7 days a week, for its lightness, the metrics, the explanations. I do the combo with a Garmin Tactix 7 AMOLED. I really wish Whoop would work with Garmin integration like you would with Strava. If you do, I'm signing for life.

I wear a whoop when climbing. It doesn’t have a screen, so I don’t worry about it. I’ve jammed it in cracks quite a few times without issue.

I’ve tried quite a few and have landed on whoop. Whoop is solid for tracking recovery and overall activity levels, and is great at tracking long term trends. I do question the accuracy of the data, but the data is consistently tracking the same thing, and is tracking something meaningful, so it works well for me. I also don’t always love the interpretation of the data, but once I worked all that out I could use what I have perfectly well. I like the screen less design, I can jam it in cracks without an issue, and I like how it feels on my wrist. I don’t even notice it anymore.

Truthfully I wear my  watch only when I’m working out. I don’t use it when sleeping or everyday errands, I use my whoop almost 24/7 cause I do take it off when showering.

This is the reason I got a whoop. They have a bicep band you can get and I can wear it 24/7 without it getting in the way