It is a good thing you can charge it while you wear it, if you had to take it off just to charge it every 2 1/2 - 3 days…
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yeah i got tired of charging mine up all the time. one day in october didnt feel like charging it again and just gave up on it.
Hey folks,
Has anyone here utilized the various recovery data points to inform workout schedules / motivate taking better care of yourself? Or generally, anyone have some good use cases? I probably am not likely to be that diligent about inputting all of my food/drinks and don’t intend to try to hack the strain system by running vs. weightlifting, etc.
It has gotten me to the point where I hate/fear having red days. Red is almost 100% directly correlated to alcohol consumption so I would definitely say that it has created behaviorial changes in me to stop or limit my drinking at certain times in an effort to ensure my next day’s recovery isn’t totally wrecked.
sometimes now if I know I’m gonna be red the next day because of wedding, date night with a really late dinner/drinks, etc., I’ll take the whoop off that night. Don’t need the negative feedback.
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positive use case on travel.
had an early flight. 530am, that’s a 3am wakeup call to get to the airport. Easy recipe for a yellow, possible red recovery just due to lack of sleep.
I made myself be in bed at 8pm the night before. I knew I wouldn’t fall asleep for several hours, but just being in bed, attempting to rest between 8-11pm was all the difference in the world in my recovery. 3AM wake up, had a green recovery score. generally felt really good that day.
really highlighted for me the value of just attempting rest or even very light rest/sleep. you don’t have to fall asleep deeply for your body to be getting positive benefits.
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I would say this is the biggest thing for me, is behavioral change. I would love to be able to plot out how often weekly I was drinking when I first got a whoop in July 2021-now.
I don’t try to “hack” the strain either, but when I workout and do a lot of kettlebell movements, cable movements, jumping, or medball throws, I feel like I can get a pretty reasonable, and high, strain. Maybe I’m just out of shape.
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agreed - i’m sure if i was more diligent in using the journal, that plot would create itself. but I can confidently say that the number of weeknights where while watching TV for a couple hours night I have 2,3,4 alcoholic beverages has gone done dramatically.
maybe it’s gaming the system, but I think it’s understanding how my body works and recovers more and acting according to that. 2 drinks is basically my threshold. under two, and I can still be green but I might have shot myself into yellow. 2 or more, yellow at best. but I want to be green/high yellow scores as much as possible so i’m having one or no drinks 95% of the time now.
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Yup, and for me it’s become a timing thing too, Had one with dinner last night around 5:30, but the other night when I got home from work around 6:15-30 and didn’t have dinner until close to 7, didn’t even think about having one then.
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on this, I definitely don’t change my schedule based on this. I do classes so the schedule sets itself. Recovery would just inform what I think I can get out of the workout. And anything yellow/green is full speed ahead. Only a bad red day would temper my expectations for what I can achieve that day.
Whoop is doing a cool beta for weight lifting that should be pushed out soon. Someone I know had access. They say it’s pretty neat.
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I saw their announcement about this and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve been curious as to what it will entail and look like.
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Person in the beta says it’s awesome and has a lot of potential.
Now that’s pretty cool, would be excited to see that @QMany
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This might be enough to get me to come back. I’ve hated the lack of strength training strain.
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For sure. I’m not in the beta. But I know a lot is lifting specific questions are hitting the whoop teams about strain and lifting. (Like 5x5, 5x3x1, etc). So optimistically saying the future looks good.
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Also, I understand this is Beta and just for show, but I laughed out loud looking at this and seeing someone is doing alternate barbell lunges 4x8 with 1000lb’s on the bar. True quadfather tendencies
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I think that is total weight moved, i.e. 24 reps X 45 lb. empty bar = 1080 lbs. tonnage 
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TYFYS — I have been on Whoop for two years almost and I have never seen that feature!
Just found the “see monthly trends” label in my recovery metrics. This is amazing. One of my favourite things is seeing this data in my MPA and now I don’t have to wait a month for it.
I find that stuff so motivating, so massive that it’s available on demand.
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I understand why people get annoyed that lifting weights doesn’t produce a score that they think is commensurate with the effort they put in, but you just have to personalise things IMO.
I know from experience now and from doing a similar weights program 2-3 times a week since last July that if my strain is low 6s I went harder, maybe threw in some supersets and generally didn’t scroll on my phone too much between sets.
If I’m high 4s I took the piss a bit but good on me for showing up and getting a workout in.
Mid-high 5s is a typical weights workout.
The “game” is your life and the improvements you are making to it. The game is not “get the highest strain you can every day” and a 12 strain workout doesn’t necessarily beat a 6 strain workout.
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Lol it’s what @QMany said. Think it’s verbiage borrowed from Tonal
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