Serious question non-whoop related. Does too much sleep have a negative effect on long-term issues? Signed the guy who gets 10 hrs just about every night
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I would bet there is a correlation, but the people who sleep that much probably arent typically in good health anyway. If you are exercising and eating right and then just happen to sleep that much then it probably isnt hurting much if at all.
A related thing on Whoop is it tells me if I read before bed and put on blue light blocking glasses then my score increases. Well I dont go out for 4 beers and a burger and then come home and read and put on those glasses. When I read before bed Ive already done some things that are more likely to put me in the green. It isnt necessarily a correlation between the two.
Spare strap and battery (and more) over here:
https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/silk-road-2-0-back-to-our-regularly-scheduled-programming/33537/2558?u=cav007
Did you abandon ship?
Yeah. I wanted to try a a couple of days without it to see if Iâd miss it and it turns out I quite like not having it on and checking in every morning or wondering why a given workout didnât record a higher strain. I also have up on the Apple Watch and really enjoy wearing some of my others instead.
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Sorry to over post⌠but looking for some insight. Posted the other day about my sleep totals being low m-f with a second job keeping me up late. All week Iâve been having my recovery drop lower and lower⌠until this morning when it shot up to 88% after the lowest length of sleep Iâve had all week. Was fully expecting my recovery to keep dropping all week until i could catch up on sleep over the weekend. I did take an hour nap yesterday⌠could that cause a sudden bump in recovery?
My only green recovery day during the week was a day following an evening nap. The spanish might be onto something. Siesta is key.
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ha, I was in the green this morning too, 92 even⌠after having 3 evening whiskeys. I didnt have a drink all week and hovered in the 50-60% range. Love it.
Other than the nap, was there anything you may have done outside of your normal routine? Something as simple as eating dinner earlier or drinking more water.
As a new user it will be updating whatâs ânormalâ for you through calibration. Over time it dials itself into your specific habits and gets a better read for you.
I found early on a lot of ârandomnessâ and over time that randomness has decreased pretty dramatically.
Iâve had some shitty recoveries lately.
These are the day after, so âTuesdayâ is my sleep âMonday nightâ:
- 25% on Tuesday (5:57, 11:51 to 6:20 in bed)
- 27% on Wednesday (6:47, 11:46 to 6:52)
- 23% on Thursday (6:45, 11:10 to 7:02)^
- 32% today (5:22, 10:44 to 4:42)
I had a bit of a headache yesterday and was slightly congested. I took a single Aleve at about 4pm, and went to bed a bit early⌠and then woke up at 4:20, tried to fall asleep for 20 minutes⌠and gave up and got out of bed. Got a lot of work done between 5am and 7:30.
I felt âfineâ all the days. I could have played soccer or walked 18 holes. Still, I do wonder if there was something âoffâ and the mild headache was interesting (not so mild I didnât take anything, but it wasnât a migraine).
P.S. My sleeping respiratory rate is normally about 16.2. Tuesday was 15.3, Weds and Thu 15.9, today back to 16.1.
You have to remember that recovery is a mix between what you did the day before and your sleep, not just based solely on sleep. If you sleep for only 5 hours, are you more likely to wake up in the red? For sure, but you can also have 7+ hours of sleep and still wake up in the red/yellow. That has happened to me a good amount.
Are you using the journal? This has helped me so much with pinpointing what helps me on a day to day basis for the best possible recovery the next day.
Yes. But I do roughly the same damn thing every day, so itâs basically pointless.
Iâve been between 8 and 10 strain all this week.
So with those recovery scores and daily strain, you are most like overreaching, right?
No, most days I donât reach the level I am supposed to.
(I edited the post above. I am supposed to get to 11-13 most days, but often just get to 8-10. You responded quickly and so it still said Iâve been between 11-13, but I meant to say thatâs the recommendation, and I under-achieve.)
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So as much as I hate the concept of tracking myself and being tracked, my terrible sleep for the last 3 years has led me to finally order one of these damn things and get more methodical about my routines and habits. I ainât reading this thread, but is this like some sort of mutual support group for Whoopers? Is that what we call ourselves?
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Gotcha. Thatâs good you arenât overreaching. I know that whenever Iâve had red recoveries, I make sure to do whatever it takes to not go above my recommended daily strain.
And some of this is all psychological. You can read numbers and data on a screen, but only YOU know how your body is feeling that day.
Whoopers, Whoop Tang Clan, Refuge Whoop Group, etc. Definitely a lot of information in this thread if you ever decide to go through it all.
For starting out with it, I would recommend using the journal from day one. Also, if you wake up in the red on your second day of having it, donât freak out. It takes about a month to establish a baseline for everything it tracks.
This thread is pretty active, so donât hesitate to ask questions as you go through your first month. We wonât destroy you for asking questions that have been asked before.
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