Mine is pretty accurate for indoor stuff, sometimes hits high patches for outdoor rides. Still gives me a crazy high average for 30 min walk (equivalent to a sweetspot effort)
Sounds interesting, could you please give a review after a while? I’m considering to buy it too.
I can but make sure you take an opportunity to look at @dcrainmaker’s review if you haven’t:
Has this been posted about in here yet? Just got a notification about linking Apple Health to whoop, sounds like they are going to import workouts?! Seems like this will solve many complaints about HR accuracy during training?
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linking is not an option for me, I guess the beta is for a small group
I’m anxiously awaiting my opportunity to jump in on this but it isn’t going to help with HR. The FAQ doesn’t directly address it but the HR is still going to come from Whoop, what will come from Health is start/end time, activity, height, weight, age and GPS route.
Will still be really nice for activities recorded on another device like walks, runs, medication, weightlifting, etc…
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Yeah, I’ve been poking at it this week. It’s got some quirks I’m working through with Whoop. Has massive potential though. Hope to have a post up by Monday on how it works in real-life, as the quirks are…umm…quirky and unexpected.
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Still waiting on that Whoop / HRV / recovery score sync to Trainerroad so it can learn my strain & recovery patterns based on workouts & do its AT thing.
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Can someone explain why cyclists post their Whoop strain setting to Strava but not their rides. I have an Oura ring but don’t post my results to Strava. Today I happened upon another cyclist and we rode together. I got his name and when I went to give kudos, his workout only shows his Whoop strain setting and data from his HRM, but not his speed/mileage, etc. He has Wahoo ELEMNT. Am I missing something? I see lots of Whoop strain data posts and have never understood it. Thanks.
I’ve been using Whoop for over a year without linking it to my Strava. I also have no clue why folks post their strain/rest/recovery info there
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It’s just that folks have linked up Strava at some point, and that’s all that Whoop posts to it.
If you do a workout with GPS and turn it on as such, then it posts that too. But most workouts are auto-recognized purely from accelerometer data, so it just posts the boring strain bits.
Also - fun fact: Posting to Strava is the ONLY way you can export the contents of a workout from the Whoop platform. Granted, only like 6 of us want to do that, but it’s the only handy way of doing it.
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Because if it isn’t on Strava then did it really happen?!
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I’m not sure that getting HR from an external source, makes sense for a 24/7 HR monitor, it would be this accurate for 20% of the date, and this accurate for the rest, and as the device is trying to get a 24hour strain score, surely that can’t be that helpful, and day to day consistency would be far better (for a consistent strain score)
Also, external hr does guarantee accuracy (or consistency), my Fenix 6 can be about 30 beats out on hard efforts,
I have jumped in again and ordered a 4.0. I think as an all in 24 hour tracker it is this or Oura ring - and I don’t really want to where a ring. The whoop band is pretty discrete and it allows me to where my more dressy watches when required. Equally it means I don’t have to sleep with my Fenix on the wrist, which is a little bulky for 24/7 tracking.
It is probably not the best HR sensor in the world - and I still think it is expensive. but the app is brilliant and on balance it is probably still the best option out there - for me at least.
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I don’t know if you’ve ever worn both, but in my personal experience, while the Whoop is slightly smaller, they are both still large enough that you can’t easily put a dress shirt sleeve over them. Just an fyi. Also, while the Garmin is larger and heavier, I find the strap much more comfortable than the whoop strap, which I found very tight and itchy, so much so that it created a small wound on the skin directly underneath the hrm.
I have. There is a huge difference between Whoop and a Fenix 7x. To be honest the size of the Fenix (I had the 5x) before, did not bother me day to day - but I did find it too large for sleep. And it would probably give me wife a black eye should I ever hit her with it in my sleep.
Interesting how our perceptions of the size difference differ. 
Although it’s not a cheap, if wearing it under a shirt is a a occasional issue, there are other wearing options (the 4 doesn’t have to be worn on the wrist)
Lossen it ?
Lossen it !!!
You can’t loosen it. It’s a strap. If you loosen it, it’s going to move around. My comment about the “wound” isn’t uncommon. I’ve seen lots of people talk about taking the whoop off for short periods to give your skin a break.
Yes you can, it’s a strap with an adjuster, it doesn’t ned to be to tight that it’s uncomfortable, I have this problem with my Fenix 7 because it’s a watch strap and the buckles are to far apart for my wrist, but not the Whoop because it’s micro adjustable (and doesn’t need to be super tight)
Here a video explaining how to adjust the tightness
