Slightly inflated whoop sometimes thinks the range counts as playing and detects activity
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Anyone having trouble getting to their year in review? I canāt find it anywhere in my app and i even asked the AI thing how to get it and it gave me a link where i automatically get an error message in processing the request.
edit: found member login finally
Edit again: had to update my app!!
probably happiest about my HRV going from 105ms in 2022 to 132ms in 2023
Quick end of season notice. Appears whoop subscriptions can be bought with HSA/FSA. Also battery packs. Like, actually, supported
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Can you with an HSA? I was looking into it and I think you need to have a doctors note to be able to do it.
I think an FSA is fine with or without
Yep! They (and many other trackers Oura/etc) now fully covered by HSA/FSA. Algorithm been feeding me ads but Best Buy confirms it too. Which makes a lot of sense for insurance companies. Since, ideally, people getting these are trying to get healthy which lowers their premiums
Oh interesting. I know I had seen that in the past and then read elsewhere that a letter of medical necessity was required to āofficiallyā have it covered. I also just saw that it is somewhat retailer dependent (and that using it for the subscription vs the band seems somewhat gray).
Iāve been on the fence of getting a whoop and maybe this is a good reason to do so
A buddy renewed his with HSA. Seems like itās opening up more.
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Very interesting. Iāve somewhat committed to my Apple Watch, but, company money in my hsa has me thinking otherwise
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I rock both personally.
They do different things in my experience. But whoop also sends data into apple health which is neat now.
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Yeah, Iāve seen a few people talk about that.
At this stage I use my Apple watch more as a fitness tracker than anythingā¦Iāve turned off the majority of the notifications and whatnotā¦Iāve realized that i donāt want to be constantly connected (hence the benefit of a whoop over the AW). Why do you wear both, if I may ask?
Since starting to look at whoop, I found that the AW started sleep tracking which was a huge reason I wanted a whoop. I think itās not the best between the two, it seems like the whoop does a better job of likeā¦quantifying sleep quality which Apple doesnāt really. Iāve got narcolepsy so I try to be really cognizant of sleep quality and whatnot.
Until recently I had an older Apple Watch and wouldnāt sleep track cause the battery would die on me.
But I wear both for a few reasons; I enjoy the tracking stuff Apple Watch offers and some of the trails I can load in.
But I play a handful of sports I like to track but donāt want to crack a screen, so still being able to track that is nice.
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When you say tracking stuff do you mean like fitness tracking? Or like more GPS-y sort of stuff?
The sleep tracking was huge to me, and I have to be really careful with making sure Iām charging my Apple watch because yeah, the battery is awful on my series 4.
Iām glad Apple finally added curling as a trackable sport, but, at least a few times a year I canāt use it, the WCF doesnāt allow for smart devices in competition. I also liked to have gps on my watch for golfā¦but it wonāt ever stay alive for 18 holes
Iām a big runner so being able to have maps and stuff on my watch is awesome. And really only needing to have my watch and headphones works out great. I do enjoy the alerts and techy stuff with the Apple Watch.
But the whoop is awesome for the stuff in between. The sleep tracking is great. Can go days without being charged. Donāt have to take it off to charge it. No screen to worry about cracking.
At the end of the day they both give pretty similar results. The journal tracking is fantastic for whoop and gives some cool insight.
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Got it, that makes sense. The HSA stuff totally changes the calculus, but Iām really trying to figure if the whoop is worth the extra money over the Apple Watch. What I think I come back to all said and done is: is strain/recovery scores better and more useful than the Apple Watch metrics that I see? I feel like the answer is yes (as theyāre quality metrics vs just a chart of sleep cycles or activity)
IMO all metrics should be taken with a grain of salt., from both Apple and Whoop. At the end of the day theyāre just applying math to attempt to understand recovery.
I do enjoy whoops and their insights with journaling can give some cool patterns into recovery.
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ā¦ depends on where that plane landsā¦ imoā¦ 
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Seattle to STL after a 4 hour delay. The run on Bullet Manhattanās at the centurion lounge didnāt help.
St. Louis, gross 
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