Their metrics say you need 10 hours of sleep. If you can only get 7 is the app supposed to go “oh, sorry, we’ll amend that recommendation to make sure it’s easily obtainable”.
That’s why I asked for experiences of people who have used it a while etc. What insights were learned?
After my first week in, it’s $30 a month for something to tell me to get more sleep. (which is true for most adults).
And yes, if something says get 10 hours of sleep, but I legit could not sleep that long, what do I do?
Are you back in the green with a less amount of sleep? If so, don’t sweat it.
Otherwise:
Live with a lower recovery?
Don’t try to hit strain for a day or two?
I ignore the “recommended amount of sleep” because it has such a low factor in recovery score.
I dabble around a lot with self care things to figure out how to manipulate and create good recovery days… water, magnesium, devils lettuce, CBD, etc.
At the end of the day you have to ask “what you want out of it”. All recovery scores from any fitness tracker is picking metrics and trying to do math to give it a score. Kinda up to you what you do with that info. My goal is try and lower my RHR and raise my HRV
My alcohol consumption has dropped a ton with whoop but also changed what I drink. Pretty much just tequila and red wine now after many, many tests.
Have similarly noticed a drop in consumption as well, before was 2-3x a week, 1-2, maybe 3 drinks a night. More in the 1-2x a week now, and 1, maybe 2, rarely 3+ now (less wedding szn which has been tuff on HRV/Recovery in general)
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Anybody have an extra 4.0 band they’d be willing to part with? The clip is shot on mine
Sleep king! 210 nights of 100%+ is cheat-code stuff
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Actually put my Whoop back on today. Haven’t worn it in 6 weeks or so and gave a Garmin a try.
Loved the idea of a Garmin, just didn’t love it as much as I was hoping. Not very comfortable to sleep in and I had a hard time understanding the “body battery”. Also I feel like it didn’t track sleep as accurately.
Incredible! What is your normal strain activity? Golf provides plenty of strain during the summer, but I struggle getting high strain during the winter even with strenuous exercise.
I’m a big OrangeTheory fan. I try to go 5-6 times a week. A class there is typically 13-15 strain. Then I golf when I can and do a bunch of normal day-to-day walking about.
I also think I do just naturally run a high strain. Even on rest days, I’ll get above 10 strain pretty easily. OrangeTheory claims that taking a class can result in 36 hour afterburn, which I assume is mostly bullshit, but it does seem like my bassline strain is higher overall when I’m doing OTF than when I wasn’t able to go when studios were closed during the pandemic.
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Hello friends. Just got a Whoop for Christmas and excited to start using. Already joined the Refuge group under the same username.
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It seems like I got a spare black one with mine I could send you
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I’m good, bought a fresh one a few days after posting that. Thanks though
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Does anybody wake up with strain already showing in the app? The last few days I’ve woken up with 4+ strain which is equivalent to me walking nine holes.
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Sometimes I do, it’s usuall my in the mid 2s
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Yes this happens to me as well. I often to get 4 or 5 just making coffee and feeding the dog in the morning.
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