I have been having a break from whoop for a week or so and I think I am happier without it.
Ultimately, even on a 50% recovery day, which I am above at least 90% of the time, I can basically do anything I want to do strain-wise.
So now I wake up and listen to my body (most of my overtraining risk is muscle-based rather than heart-based if you know what I mean) and just go from there.
If I go to bed 8hrs before I need to wake up and I “sleep through”, I feel good and am happy. Even though the whoop would tell me “NOT GOOD ENOUGH!” when I did that.
And perhaps most importantly and fundamentally for me, I have been really focusing in the past 12 months or so on a mantra that “life is an experience, not a performance” and I got to feeling like the whoop was at odds with that.
I’m not selling it (I reckon you could get good $$$ for a new 4.0 right now!) cos maybe I will come to miss it, but for now I’m good.
I got a notification that mine shipped on the 22nd with UPS 2 day shipping, obviously didn’t expect to get it right away with Christmas Eve/Christmas, but it hasn’t moved since the 22nd…
Tough scenes all around
Just checked the tracking, and it updated from estimated delivery of today to tomorrow
I just received my 4.0, so if there is anyone wanting to test run a 3.0, just holler at me and I’ll get it shipped to you.
Edit: 3.0 off to a new owner!
Yesterday I walked 18 at Streamsong (Blue), had two tacos at the turn, ate a late lunch, drove four hours back home, and sat around with some friends around a firepit nursing a half glass of Maker’s Mark.
I woke up to a 92% recovery off 6:35 hours of sleep (71% sleep performance).
HRV is 39% higher than my average
Resting HR is 3 bpm lower than average
So now I have to wonder if I should walk more or if the Maker’s Mark was the key to the green numbers…
Yeah it’s weird sometimes the timing if alcohol will give me green recovery.
I’ve all but disregard hours slept. I have a kid and time means nothing to her. And along those lines whoop said it only counts for something like 10% of the equation for recovery.
That’s what I enjoy about whoop. Using my body like a science experiment.
When my 4.0 charger died and I was waiting for a new one I switched to the 3.0 for a few days and didn’t notice anything except for the obvious lack of the 4.0 features and measurements.
