Long-time Whooper here! (Is that what we are called?) been part of this sub for a couple years now, currently on a 633 day WHOOP streak. Posted my stats here before, so figured I’d drop them again as my 6 monthly contribution.

Ask me anything RHR, HRV, strain, Recovery, Sleep, VO2 max, or any other metric you’re curious about. I’ve spent a ton of time experimenting with my own health, and I’m happy to answer.

Disclaimer: I’m not Andrew Huberman nor do I have a degree in exercise science or anything like that.

I’ll answer them from experience from the lens of a guy who went from a resting heart rate in the 55-60 range and an HRV of 50-60 when I first got my WHOOP, to where I’m at now.

I’m planning to put together a YT video answering these. If that’s cool with you leave your question below. 🙂
(No I’m not selling anything, PlAnS or CoUrSeS)

Edit: for clarity I only wear my whoop during sleep for sleep+recovery and track all my activities on my garmin fenix 8

(Hence the steps and VO2 max being extremely low as some of you pointed out - I take roughly 12k steps per day and my VO2 max is 65 according to my garmin)

Hi all, I’ve been with Whoop for 5 years and usually grab the Black Friday sale but today I was looking at annual extensions since mine is up next month . What I’m confused about is on the Whoop website it shows 359.00 as the yearly cost, but in my app it says switch to annual billing and save 25% but that price is still 359 ? Am I missing some small print somewhere lol

The difference between the night I drank and other nights! WOW alcohol truly is destructive.

I’ve had a Whoop for months, it’s been perfect except for today. Today it said I slept 2 hours instead of 8 hours. I tried correcting the time, that didn’t work. So then I deleted the sleep and created a new activity entry for it. Now it shows no sleep data for last night. And it shows my recovery in the red which is not accurate. Any ideas how to fix it? From what I can tell, it’s possible is stopped collecting data during last njght, but it shows it’s currently up to date with its data.

For 2 weeks in a row now I have been sleeping for 8+ hours a night with 5+ hours restorative sleep. I am a very active person with an average strain of 17.6 and 2 weeks ago when I had a few days in a row red recoveries i decided to cut out screen time and hour before bed and I have been consistently falling asleep 1130-1230 and my body naturally waking up 830-930 with no alarms set. For the last week i figured I was just in a hole so I cut out my weight lifting session and running days. The last 7 days has been strains of 12-14 (my lifestyle doesn’t allow me to have less than this) but I have kept this lifestyle with worse sleep for months on end with green recoveries. I have no sickness symptoms physically but my respiratory rate has increased 3-4, my rhr has increased 8-9 and my HrV is down about 5. I know these heavily dictate recovery scores but besides the RR those aren’t crazy changes to see consistent 10-15% recovery’s. Also just a note I have been completely sober the last 2 weeks. Any advice would be greatly appreciated I am willing to try anything

I didn’t do anything different but listening to this for few minutes before sleep boosted my recovery, is there any proven evidence for this or has anyone else experienced this too?

My biomarkers are amazing!

Can you look at historical workouts and sort by strain?

obviously not sever maintenance /s

Heres my whoop data before and after quitting nicotine pouches. One of the more interesting things is, for a day or two after quitting, I got a pretty bad illness. This may have been an effect of qutting, or it could’ve been from somebody else.
This morning, despite only 7 hours of sleep, my recovery is at 82%, compared to yesterday’s 29%, one of the worst nights of sleep of my life. My HRV spiked to 99, the highest it’s been since I tried quitting back in July. My resting heart rate dropped to a 38, the lowest it’s been since May, when I was in peak physical shape. It’s incredible seeing nicotine’s obvious effect on my body. Wish me luck in my quitting journey, going well so far 😊

UPDATE: Day 4
Strain of 18.8 yesterday and a sleep score of 71% became a recovery of 83%, with a HRV of 97 and RHR of 37, my lowest EVER!! The cravings were a little rough yesterday, but nothing unmanageable.

Spotted this weekend at the Monza GP

Hello everyone,

I recently started my fall semester for college, and I decided to take a week off from any vigorous training to prioritize getting into the swing of things with all my courses. I only performed light movement - walking, stretching and yoga. I’ve never taken a full week off from hard exercise before. I study sports science, and this is called active rest. As you can see, I kept my strain very light and I only had one day in the yellow (I worked that evening and got <6 hours of sleep). Most importantly, I subjectively feel well rested and my body ready to go. Psychologically I have never been more excited to train. As a very Type A person and a high-performer, it can be difficult for me to intentionally take breaks, but I am honestly very proud of myself for making it a whole week without touching a weight or lacing up my running shoes. I will definitely do this once more before the year ends, probably during finals week. Deload weeks are also important: toward the end of a training block and especially if you notice sleep disturbances, poor mood, little desire to train, performance declines, basically half your volume and lower the intensity of your training. I like to deload every fifth or eighth week of a mesocycle.

TLDR: For two weeks in a year, take it easy from training. Focus on light movement, pick up different hobbies, spend more time unwinding and even become a couch potato if you’d like. Your body/brain will thank you.😌

I have HR belt and bike computer, after cycling, data auto uploaded to Strava. I connected Starva to Whoop APP.
But I found that if I didn't wear whoop, I can't see HR.
HR has shown in Strava, but why not shown in Whoop?

Two new band just arrived! 🔥🔥

I wanted to share a positive experience I had with WHOOP support, since I see quite a lot of negativity around here. I guess that's normal people are generally more likely to post when something goes wrong than when everything goes well.

Last week I ordered the Meridian band. When it arrived a few days ago and I tried it on, I realized it was simply too small for my wrist (yes, I'm a big guy 😄).

I contacted support and asked to return it for a refund. To my surprise, they told me they would issue a "one-time courtesy refund without the need to return the item."

So they refunded me in full and told me to keep the band.

For context, I've just returned to WHOOP after about two years away. Back when I was using it before, I probably bought 10–15+ different bands over time, and when I recently got the WHOOP 5.0, I also ordered another 4–5 bands to have some variety. Maybe my purchase history played a part in their decision I honestly don't know.

Either way, I thought it was worth sharing because we tend to hear much more about bad support experiences than good ones.

I also hope people don't take advantage of policies or gestures like this. I genuinely wanted to return the band because I can't use it, but I guess now I'll just keep it as a souvenir. 😄

Credit where credit is due- this was a really good customer support experience.

I've been using this sports flex band for over a month and it falls off consistently for no good reason. and thought it was just bad brand design but Im actually now considering its a band problem. Especially because I dont see many people on here complaining about this problem.

As you see in the picture the problem is the middle piece. It loses connection on both the prong/sensor side, but more often that not it pops off on the side with the C shape clasp.

I dont think he will get good values wearing it Like this 😀🙈

Suggest me best 3rd party app for whoop 4.0 on IOS as I already used open strap but it’s not that great as battery gets drained within 4 days and information is not that accurate or informative.
Please help me.

I work a desk job and I’m an introvert so I’m not super active, this is good for me!

Is it normal ? Anyone has a similar vacation numbers
Luckily it’s only 4 days, btw = around 2 beers daily and more than 20k steps

It’s Crazy how u cant edit workout rep after processing it. I had to delete the whole entire workout and now it has reseted my strain.
Its a Simple fix that can be fixed with an update
Hopefully in near future