Another bit of news - I subscribed to a WHOOP 'lifestyle' tracher device back in December 2024.
A nice bit of kit but after 3-4 months in, I am unlikley going to continue my subscription (about £200 per year), unless WHOOP v5.0 comes out with some wizzie new features, like glucose monitoring tracking.
Meanwhile, I am sticking with it (paid for a year) and trying to learn from its insights. It mostly tells me what I already know, or can pick up from my Garmin Fenix 6. Most important metrics are 'Sleep', 'Recovery' and 'Strain'.
It seems to better tracking my HRV, than my Garmin, during the night and that plus respiratory rate mostly drives its recommendations for my recovery score the next morning.
Today I only got a 59% recovery (yellow) score, which generally steers you to an easier day. Yesterday my recovery was 94% (green) so the recommendation was to go big on the strain score - I only cycled (commute), although it was on my road bike and included some hills, so resulted in a strain score of 13.0 (max. is 21.0), which is my daily goal.
The Garmin still wins as a 'fitness' tracker, although I am impessed with the WHOOPs ability to guess any workout, without my intervention - it seems to know the difference between spinning, mountain biking, road cycling, squash, swimming, running etc. I have even tried it a padel tennis, and it got it right!
I should really make better use of the data from my WHOOP but for now, it gets a 6 out of 10.
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