Im incredibly competitive (primarily with myself), and Im in a constant battle with my mind during workouts. With the launch of WHOOP 4.0, the company also released a new flagship band called the SuperKnit strap. During the first couple of days of using the new WHOOP strap, I noticed that the battery would drain within a day or two. The skin conductance sensor keeps tabs on changes in how your skin conducts electricity. But coincidentally, both sensors automatically detected the bike ride, and logged it. While I was already aware of the negative impact alcohol has on my biometrics and sleep quality, I consider the Health Monitor an invaluable tool for the early detection of infections. Just received my WHOOP 3.0 and have not found in any literature what is the preferred hand to wear the device. I do have a bicep strap on order for the Whoop and will benchmark again versus the bicep strap. In other words, if I wear WHOOP on my hip, then chopping onions, clapping or tapping no longer causes inflated heart rate readings and strain scores. I have started initial training to be able to work up to real, age appropriate exercise and making better life/work decisions on my time and activities. Wi-fi and Bluetooth operate on an entirely different frequency than the critical systems of an airplane. Thats why I dont bother with WHOOPs strain scores. I say that because my chest strap tends to move around a bit as well. I started Ticker training about a week ago and have been wearing 3 heart rate monitors during exercise: Apple Watch, WHOOP, and a chest-strap that connects to my iPhone. I tried the Oura ring but it had large gaps that took about 2/3 of fmy sleep time. Is the whoop giving me bum data? I just finished drafting an article that goes into more details about the technology used by sleep trackers and why I think WHOOP is one of the best consumer-grade devices out there so stay tuned for that. Thats helpful for certain types of exercises, like lifting weights, that increase your heart rate only moderately. Yellow = Adequate Recovery. Because we're desk-bound, lazy, half-slept or distracted, this turns out to . Appears there might be some accuracy deficiencies that no product has resolved. It shouldnt be surprising that EEG-based monitoring is relatively accurate, especially when paired with additional (wrist-worn) sensors. The latter is similar to WHOOPs recovery feature, taking into account such parameters as: I really like the form-factor of Oura Ring and the data it provides, even though its sleep tracking appeared to be less accurate in my tests compared to WHOOP. Thats a limitation that pretty much all fitness trackers have. Overall, the app knows dozens of behaviors, from CBD use to the consumption of your last paleo meal to air travel. In comparison, the Apple Watch only collects heart-rate data at a high frequency during workouts. Practically, I dont think it makes much of a difference. Of course, "high" and "low" are relative to you and your baseline. Thought I was going nuts. You probably already know that if you consume more calories than you expend you will gain mass (either muscle or fat), if you consume fewer calories than you expend you will lose mass, and if you match input to output your weight stays the same. For reference, I usually accumulate a strain level of 8 to 12 during CrossFit workouts. This has become an important issue lately. While I havent had any issues with my WHOOP 4.0 battery pack, I have heard from some users whose battery packs suddenly stopped working. e.g. I have tested it against other competitive products which has led me to this conclusion. Example: yesterday I did an hour long home spin class and burned ~430 calories. The overall score displayed represents the Strain you have accumulated over the course of your entire day. I also wear my Polar watch on my left hand so when my Whoop arrives tomorrow I plan to wear it on my right hand. I dont know for certain which sensor is right, but Im leaning towards WHOOP 4.0 just based on my own assessment. If you are consistently exerting high strain days and not allowing room for recovery, you will not make the same fitness gains if you were to take a day of active rest. What works for someone may not work for someone else. Im sorry to hear about your troubles! My HRV is a reliable indicator of when Im about to get sick (and when I recover). Your strain score is strictly based on your heart rate data and the amount of time spent in each heart rate zone. Thanks for stopping by! This update primarily impacts periods of time in which your heart rate is between 30% and 40% of your heart rate reserve the range from your resting heart rate (0%) to your max HR (100%) which is above resting/restful activities but below the level at which people typically exercise. Over the past few months, that has impacted numerous apps and developers. While there are many reasons to love this device, what's most interesting is the. Theres no way to interact with the device, other than double-tapping it to see the remaining battery life via a tiny LED on the side. If you are looking to increase your Strain, we recommend spending more time in the 70% + Heart Rate Zones as these will have a greater impact on your overall Strain score. But high-intensity workouts like CrossFit often cause massive HR fluctuations (combined with wrist movements) that can make it difficult for any wrist-worn device to get a good reading. I strap on a Wahoo TickerX for my HRM during my Crossfit workouts. Your skin temperature may reflect that, which is one of the reasons why I use a mattress cooling solution to ensure I support my body by regulating its core temperature during sleep. WHOOP detects fluctuations in these metrics, which in turn affect your overall Recovery. Additionally, you can also tell the app exactly how much alcohol you had (and when you had it). NOTE: These averages will continuously change throughout the day, especially your calories. However Whoop refuses to activate it unless I give them my personal credit card and authorize them to charge it for either a 12 month extension at the end of the six months or agree to let them charge me for month to month membership at the end. I am looking for a fitness monitor that is accurate enough for my profile (not a competitor/athlete) the will provide a more fully featured range of health metrics and the Whoop sees to fit the bill. I'm usually very quick to jump in and defend whoop; this reddit content is at least 70% people saying "hi i'm new to whoop and I'm seeing this data for the first time, but I know it is all completely wrong". Regarding sleep and in line with the post you replied to, Whoop gives me far less sleep than the Oura ring, much higher deep sleep, so I do not know which one is right. ? For all these reasons, WHOOP always recommends mindful eating that is paying attention to portion sizes and checking in with yourself if you feel full. 5. I have used Whoop for a couple of years and have benchmarked it with chest straps and/or Apple Watch for Crossfit, running, and cycling and the Polar OH1 HRM against the temple and on the goggle strap for swimming. Ive worn WHOOP since January 2019, and the data it has provided has helped me optimize my diet, workouts and lifestyle habits. VoW works like your in-app personal trainer, and pulls data from your journal entries/past 30 days to help better understand your day to day capabilities. However, WHOOP also uses the accelerometer to assist with heart rate monitoring (the sensor is sensitive enough to pick up individual heart beats) and to keep tabs on your respiration rate while sleeping. Even months later, they are still receiving too high a volume of calls to respondlet that be your warning. I really like Biostraps support for chest strap HR monitors and the shoe pod to capture leg movement (especially while sleeping). Hi, It would stand to reason that the biceps would give it a more consistent contact with less flexion during the workout. It is impossible to gain a truly accurate picture of total health and wellbeing without blood sugar, hydration, weight, muscle mass, body fat, basal metabolism and many other factors which need to be measured and analysed constantly as part of the holistic health equation. If so, youll see higher-than-expected recovery scores. how does one take shower after the Workout? 14. Late meals decrease the quality of my sleep (they result in less slow-wave and REM sleep). As a result, I firmly believe that WHOOP 4.0 more accurately captured my HR data, calorie burn and cardiovascular strain. Whats important to understand is that your skin temperature is usually a bit lower than your core temperature. I just took my pulse manually after reading all previous comments while seated in front of Maybe its due to more processing happening in the 3.0 strap or the BLE connection. My thoughts are that the band would loose contact or its performance hindered by copious amounts of sweat, regardless of the type of band and where its worn. Now, heres the caveat: the more you have sleep disturbances the more these models get wrong. Those 2000 calories you believe you consumed could easily have been 2400, an error bar approximately the size of a McDonalds Double Cheeseburger. Maybe its only an option for existing lifetime members. Initially the customer support was attentive however when requesting a refund, as I had prepaid, there were crickets. The practical difference is small, but in the WHOOP world, we use BMR and then account for things like the different caloric needs of someone with a desk job versus an Emergency Room nurse on their feet all day in our Active Burn calculation. My daughter gave me the gift of a 6 month membership of Whoop. Have you tried the Biostrap? In theory, the additional LEDs and photodiodes should improve WHOOPs HR measurements, especially under less-than-ideal conditions. I may dive into that next. WHOOP can also correlate skin temperature measurements with sleep quality and recovery scores. You have to see your recovery score in the context of what youre trying to achieve. For now, WHOOP and its additional sensors (skin conductance, ambient temperature) is your best bet imho. As the optical sensors are pretty standard stuff I highly doubt Whoop cannot make any difference. Idk man i burn like 4000 a day. So far, every fitness band Ive tested suffers from it. However, my wife feels best with 8 to 9 hours of sleep much more than Sleep Coach recommends. I stores all data on the band until it reconnects to the phone to transfer it. 100% bum data. Moderate Strain (10-13) - This category indicates moderate stress is being put on the body, which helps maintain fitness. Like Whoop 3.0, Whoop 4.0 works off two metrics Strain and Recovery. BMR is, as mentioned above, the calories associated with maintaining the necessary functions of sustaining life (things like breathing) while RMR is used as an estimate of ordinary non-workout caloric consumption, and therefore includes all forms of ordinary activity (things like cooking breakfast). As mentioned above, I recorded my highest-ever strain score while building a chicken coop. 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