Is either back yet?
Iāve found what I eat, and when I eat it has a huge impact on my recovery. Super heavy meal, like Mexican food, and I get red recoveries every time. Lighter dinner, and eating before 6 pm have made the biggest impacts on my recovery.
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for reaaaal talk. I swear by it.
drink it before during and after any boozing.
iām waiting to find out how/if itās bad for me. iām screwed if it happens.
my taste is back for the most partā¦some things are very bland still.
smell comes and goes. I smelled my coffee brewing for the first time today. that was incredible.
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This is actually pretty cool. Not that youād wish COVID on anyone obviously , but having the sensation of smelling/tasting favourites for the first time again would be pretty cool.
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itās really wild not being able to smell. I think I would actually prefer losing taste over smell.
I had a really weird smell sensation (I have it still when I canāt smell anything)ā¦cigarette smoke. itās awful. I had to google it because I thought I was going crazy. sometimes I canāt smell anything but cigarette smoke even thought no one is smoking.
I donāt wish that on anyone.
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Sounds like most of my trips to Montreal 20 years ago
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ive found that I drink waaaaay less in the winter vs summer. my best guess is due to being outside all day on the tee deck in the heat. in summer I drink at least 150 oz of water a day (pounding the Yeti). Right nowā¦Iām lucky to get 50oz. That canāt be good for my recovery numbers.
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Funny how that works. I drink (and eat) more in the winter because Iām inside by cool drinks and other things. I donāt sweat much and, of course, I donāt live in TX so itās generally not too bad on the lesson tee in the summers.
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Same goes for me. Any late or heavy meal and my recovery really takes a hit. I definitely have found myself being more aware of what and when I eat at night
92% today. HRV of 122. Letās GOOOOOOOO. 
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Every since my covid scare/flu my recovery scores been through the roofā¦
So uhā¦ highly recommend? I guess?
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I switched to the bicep band yesterday afternoon and today itās registered 0 strain so far. Over the 4.5 months with the wrist band Iād hit a strain of at least 4 just by goin about my day by mid-morning or so. Anyone else experience this?
Nope. Is the metal part with whoop written facing towards you? Where you do have it on your arm?
Yes. The bicep band is more accurate and less likely to be influenced by other forces, which is why itās better for golf. Per Whoop,
āTo start to accumulate Strain, you need to reach 30% of your Heart Rate Reserve. Your Heart Rate Reserve is the range from your resting HR to your max HR. For example, if your max is 200 and resting is 50, you have a 150 bpm reserve, so 30% of your HRR would be 95 bpm, or 50 + 0.3 * (200-50).ā
The bicep band is going to make it more accurate to reach that 30% threshold
I have moved from wrist to bicepā¦mostly for my own experiments/comfort of activity.
The bicep band takes a lot more to register. If I wear it on my bicep and just have a day of going to work and home to play with kids, I will probably have a 5 strain for the day (maybe). If I wear it on my wrist and have the same day, I will have a 10-12 strain for the day. Very different.
If I golf on my bicep, I will have a strain of 6-8, on my wrist it is a strain of 14-16.
But legit workouts (mainly running for me) will have the exact same strain if it is on my wrist or my bicep, those activities tend to be the same.
I think that I have learned that if I am having a very elevated HB for an extended period of time, it doesnāt matter where I wear it. But if I am just going about my day, the wrist vastly overestimates my strain for basic activities. Golf is in that category for me. Golf doesnāt raise my heart rate much. Even walking 18. That is just what I have noticed one the past 6 months or some of moving it around.
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Itās on the way it should be. Iāve moved it up and down a bit on my bicep but no change yet. Iām currently fighting a cold so I havenāt exercised with it here yet but curious to see how that works out.
So when I wear wrist usually and outside of putting my daughter to sleep (think happy Gilmore you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep) I find the wrist fairly accurate. Even with golf.
But when I had cold/flu/kinda Rona but wasnāt, I was walking up to sometimes a strain score of 9+. Weird that you donāt see it elevated with a cold
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I wear on my right wrist.
since itās winter iām less active. plus iāve been sick. so all the numbers itās giving me for strain are impossible for me to know how accurate my current baseline truly is.
talk to me again when iām pushing 10-12 hour days on the tee and playing way more golf.
