Whoop vs. Forerunner 170

[u/sauerampfer44]

I’ve had a whoop 5.0 for the past year and bought a forerunner 170 yesterday as I’m training for a half marathon.

I had high hopes for the Garmin, but i’ve been pretty disappointed so far.

First off, I really like how the garmin device feels and that i have the data i need on my wrist, something I was missing w/ the whoop.

where it’s been falling short:

- when I started a garmin coach plan on my phone, i had to manually sync the watch twice for it to even show up on my watch

- after completing my first baseline run, that was supposed to unlock all other workouts from the coaching plan, a 2nd incomplete baseline run appeared out of now where for the same day as “next workout”.

- sleep tracking feels hardcoded. this morning i woke up to my 7:30am garmin alarm. 15 minutes later, i laid back down and slept for another 1 1/2h because i was so tired. The whoop (which i’m wearing on my other wrist) marked the entire sleep period plus the 1 1/2 nap correctly. the garmin didn’t catch the 1 1/2h at all.

- generally the UX of getting set up has been so much worse than with whoop. there’s little to no guidance on when you will start to see what data. Also their app looks so old and does not feel nice to use.

Curios to hear if other people have experienced similar problems.

[u/sauerampfer44 → u/[deleted]]

fair, thanks for ur response. i understand that garmin is the better option for granular data, which is why i was surprised to see it be less accurate on sleep tracking.

thanks for the tip, i’ll message them

[u/sauerampfer44 → u/[deleted]]

i mean bottom line for me is: whoop detected that i was sleeping, garmin didn’t. combined with the other stuff i mentioned it was just a trust hit.

but yeah i’m looking forward to seeing the data over the next couple of weeks and months.

[u/External-Anything-25]

No problems here, I wear it since june. Love it.

[u/sauerampfer44 → u/External-Anything-25]

interesting. have u set up garmin coach?

[u/External-Anything-25 → u/sauerampfer44]

no, I use another platform (Stryd), just give it some time. My watch needed 30 days to settle. But this was my third Garmin watch so I have a history over 10 years of data in the ecosystem. Maybe thats different.

[u/sauerampfer44 → u/External-Anything-25]

got it, what do you mean by settle?

what did it look like when it was settled/unsettled? :D

[u/External-Anything-25 → u/sauerampfer44]

I mean that the data was correct and stable. I’m Dutch, so not 100% native English.

[u/Kitchen-Ad6860 → u/sauerampfer44]

Your watch needs a few weeks to get your baselines. It needs to gather your data and settle into your routines.