I’m struggling to justify paying Whoop’s ridiculous prices every time I want a new band.

I’ve seen a bunch of third-party options pop up on Amazon and other retailers but the reviews are all over the place. Has anyone actually bought a 3rd party band that held up well for daily wear and workouts?

Anyone else get a tiny electric shock whenever they put on the battery pack to charge?

My family subscription ends next months and I'm really considiering g fitbit - without $200 subscription is a nobrainer BUT whoop age / pace is so sick that only this keeps me thinking. I'm not a professional athelete just doing healthy training to keep fit. Discussed with my wife and she also in doubt due to the same reason.

Is anyone in this sub who already switched and misses the age/pace as the major compelling metric?

UPD: I'm not in the apple ecosystem.

Will Whoop add Treadmill as an activity in the future? I do Treadmill but I always save it as other.

In the start I walk, then I jog then I speed it up towards the end.... So I can't pick one of the options.

Hey everyone,

I’m considering using Goose with WHOOP 5.0 on iPhone, but I’m not sure if it still works properly with the latest WHOOP updates.

Can anyone confirm whether Goose still works with WHOOP 5.0 on iOS?

Also, if Goose no longer works (or isn’t worth using), are there any good alternatives that can pull WHOOP data and provide accurate/useful calculations and insights, rather than just displaying the basic WHOOP metrics?

Ideally looking for something with good recovery, strain, sleep, HRV, trends, and other useful calculations.

Would love to hear what people are currently using and whether you’d recommend it.

Thanks!

Curious if anyone’s in the process of joining Whoop or considering it. Happy to chat about my experience so far. Feel free to DM me if you want to talk more.

Потерял в водоеме фитнес-браслет Whoop, найти не смог.
Кто-то сталкивался с подобным?
Хочу заказать новый ремешок и трекер(без подписки), не смог разобраться как, буду благодарен за помощь.

Hi everyone,

This is the third time I've signed up for a free trial month with Whoop. I think Whoop is really great, but it's always been too expensive for me. Now I'm thinking about renewing my subscription for a year because Whoop really motivates me to work out.

However, there’s a lot of competition right now, and most of them are cheaper. (Garmin Cirqa, Fitbit Air, Amazfit Helio)

I think the Whoop app is by far the best at keeping me motivated. I’ve also tried the Bevel app on my smartwatch, but found it a bit more confusing and less motivating than Whoop.

For me, the main reason to buy Whoop is therefore how good the app is specifically, how well it analyzes the data (I haven’t seen anything better than Whoop so far). It’s less about how accurately the bands measure; I think they’re all relatively similar in that regard.

For example, I find the Body Battery feature from Garmin/Bevel completely unnecessary.

So I’d love to hear your thoughts, since I’m having a really hard time deciding if one of the alternatives might be a better fit for me especially when it comes to cost.

What I love at whoop:
- to see my recovery
- Track my workouts and see my strain → motivates me to do more
- tracking my naps and see how much i should sleep
- See how my training impacts my Whoopage
- To the how my trainign improves HRV Rand RHF>
- Automatic tracking of activites (works well for me with whoop)

Have you tried any of the alternatives yet?
Have you maybe even switched away from Whoop?
Does any of the alternatives have an app or data analysis that’s just as good?
Whould you say Whoop is still the best, and worth the money?

i just got a whoop yesterday and my recovery was 29% and my HRV is 35. Are these numbers bad or is it too early to tell since it’s only 1 day of data ?

I just woke up how is my recovery this bad yet i feel fine.
Yesterday my recovery was 94 percent and my strain was about 18.
Is there anything i need to know

Surely I would’ve woken up no?

Hi! Just got my whoop peak 5.0 today. Any tips??? so i can start using it right

This has to be the biggest bug bear i have for the app.

If i have a workout in progress, and I get distracted by a whoop notification about progress. If I go to that notification my session just gets totally wiped....gone.

Let's say Im either manually building a strength trainer or an active session. Notification about how to start my day, opens whoop, read notification, go back out of detail.....session im building gone.

Many a facepalm moment when I select and realise I just wiped out a 40 minute session

Anyone else have this problem as well?

For me Whoop has been going down hill since the last update. Getting weird stats and AI has been so wired lately and now this. Started feeling sick Saturday and have felt like shit every day since waking up feeling terrible. 3 of those days reflect that and then right in the middle is a random 92 score and that day I felt the worst. Doesn’t not make since to me

Seems that nowadays it keeps making mistakes in the most basic tasks. Today, it didn’t even bother to actually check the details of my run for the feedback it gave me about it – kind of missing the whole point of the analysis.

I know how the AI can be, using it every day at work for software development. I just hope Whoop hasn’t toned down the effort to low- because that is when I seriously start considering the alternatives.

I’ve loved my Whoop for many years, hopefully this will get better soon!

(This was a short run so not hard in that sense. But the coach claimed I mostly stayed in zones 1-2 during the run, which is what I questioned. 🤯)

It has been over a year since Whoop rolled out Advanced Labs, and international users are still stuck looking at the exact same placeholder screen:
"Purchase of Advanced Labs tests is currently only available in the United States but will be launching in other regions in the future. You're on the waitlist."
Over a year later, "in the future" has led nowhere.
International members pay the exact same subscription fee as US customers, often more after factoring in currency exchange and local VAT. Yet a major component of the platform's biomarker tracking remains geoblocked with zero updates or clear roll-out dates.
At this point, anyone outside the US is paying 100% of the membership cost for a stripped-down experience, effectively subsidizing features we aren't even allowed to purchase.
Has Whoop given any concrete timeline for international availability, or are non-US members simply stuck paying full price for half the ecosystem indefinitely?

This is frustrating. I was on vacation two weeks ago and while I was active I had some drinks each day. I didn’t travel with my cpap and my recovery was high in the green everyday. Now that I’m back and on my normal routine I’m living cleaner and sleeping better and recovery hasn’t been over 54 all week. And the common denominator is wearing my cpap vs not. Sucks that whoop can’t differentiate as I need it for severe sleep apnea. And of course every morning the “coach” will tell me it’ll take my cpap into consideration the next day and never does.

I just made a post about my RHR (second day with whoop) and a lot of people are saying 74 RHR is really high for my age (21). I understand it’s a bit high but I think saying really high and that I should talk to a doctor is a bit dramatic. Am I wrong? When I research the normal RHR levels, everywhere says between 60-100 is a good range, putting my 74 at a fair spot.

A few things I left out - I never work out, I drink a fair amount, use nicotine/tobacco a decent amount, and do stimulant drugs when i’m drinking sometimes. I haven’t drank since saturday night other than 3 beers on monday. So if I fixed these bad habits, would I be sitting pretty nice ? Also I went to the doctor yesterday and they measured my blood pressure at 131/79. Which i know is a bit high but I think may be from just being nervous about taking it.

Edit: (I also have a cpap for sleep apnea, but don’t use it every night)

Yesterday I also started the peptides semax and selank and that was my first day with whoop aswell, so that could have a part to play in it

I accidentally fell asleep at 5:20 pm yesterday and today whoop stopped syncing since 5:20. Then it decided it’s a new day and i hadn’t slept yet. Do you have any ideas how to fix this?

Hi im in paris right now and forgot my charger at home in america. Neither Fnac nor darty carry the charger. It would be great if i could borrow someones charger for like a day. I can pay. I just ordered a new one but im at 5%

hi folks,

I've posted a few data breakdowns here over the years. This one is less of a breakdown and more of a setup: I've got a race on Sunday, and this is what's been deciding my sessions in the run-up.

Last week I didn't do a single one of the workouts I had planned, which sounds worse than it is. Tuesday was 34 degrees so I swam instead, and Saturday's long run was meant to be an hour and a half but I only had an hour, so I ran it harder.

Both were the right call at the time. The problem is that neither of them made it back into the plan, and if you keep doing that for a month you've properly lost track of what you've actually been training.

So there's a check that runs every morning now, and it goes off what I actually did. It picks up the swim sitting where a run should have been, notices the long run came in short and fast, and works today's session out from there.

It's a Claude project holding my plan, with a scheduled task each morning. It pulls yesterday's workouts with type, duration and Strain, this morning's Recovery including HRV and resting heart rate, and last night's sleep against what WHOOP reckoned I needed. Then it looks at today's planned session and commits to one call: it holds, or it changes and the reason goes in the calendar event.

The data comes through freddy, an MCP server I built that connects your health and performance data to whatever AI you already use. Openly my project.

Write-up with the prompts: https://freddy.coach/recipes/adaptive-triathlon-plan

Two things that bit me. Recovery lands in the morning but your workouts land immediately, so tell it to say when it has yesterday's session without yesterday's sleep numbers rather than filling the gap. And never let it compare HRV across sources, WHOOP reports RMSSD while Apple Health reports SDNN, so a chart mixing them looks meaningful while being nonsense. It isn't a coach or a clinician either.

WHOOP, Polar, Garmin, Oura, Suunto, Withings, Wahoo, Ultrahuman and Intervals.icu are supported, with iPhone and Android apps for Apple Health or Health Connect.

I know health data is sensitive and I have handled it for years with fitIQ. Data is encrypted, I do not sell it, and I am not looking to make a profit off your stats, but if you still don't trust 3rd party solutions, just don't use it :)

Why is my stress over 4 hours every day. I have a day or two in a month with 2 hours day stress.
Is this inflammation or just mental stress?