Curious why this is an issue?
It’s just bad coding. What is the point of popping a stress report DURING a stress event. It demonstrates a lack of attention to detail, which after two plus years of whoop, isn’t surprising at all.
Just strikes me more as a v1 thing. The notification seems to go out, more or less, the same time daily. I imagine they will add more notification control in the future.
But we clearly have different opinions on Whoop, which is fine so I don’t want to get overly defensive.
Yeah that’s more like an Alpha/Beta bug, than V1. Looking at the timing of the notifications I got on Tuesday & Wednesday it’s set to push notifications at midnight UTC, which is mid afternoon Pacific time. So like I said lazy coding, lack of attention to detail.
Saw a splash screen on my app, but still not seeing the new feature. Wondering if disabling the journal features suppresses it for me. Oh well.
You may need to update your app. I saw the popup then didn’t see the feature but now it’s on my overview screen just under Key Statistics (HRV, Sleep Performance, Calories).
Seems harsh. You don’t have to like Whoop, especially at a subscription model of ~$22/month if you go annual. I get it, hefty price means hefty expectations. But I don’t understand getting upset at the timing of a specific, daily notification you can simply turn off. To chalk it to “lazy coding” is extreme. The feature seems to align with a MVP mindset. Ship something with value that may not have all the bells and whistles and iterate on it/add features as you go. I wouldn’t call a daily notification you can’t customize the timing a bug (in my mind that doesn’t even fit the definition of a bug) or show stopper. But that is the Agile evangelist in me talking.
It’s not any one thing that irritates me about whoop, it’s the cumulative total of all the little things.
For me personally it’s been worth it to learn what to look for in RHR, HRV, strain, etc, but the value has fallen off from there now that battery life is worse with the latest version of hardware, and new features of questionable value. e.g. in the new app when it detects an activity it no longer defaults mine to cycling, its an activity and I have to go in every time and change it, as well as update the wear location. How many times do I need to input the same information for it to take as a default activity and default location for where the device is worn for an activity? Apparently a great deal because it’s yet to figure it out yet.
No, for the cost, even at the much lower price for an 18 month subscription, it doesn’t deliver value commensurate with price.
Fair and absolutely valid. I still like my Whoop and did an annual re-up this winter. I have been liking the new features like the revamped activity and home page UI.
I like my Whoop for the long term data, like how I am progressing (or not) over 6 months or years at a time. In terms of day to day: unless I am deep in red or sick will I let a 50% recovery stop me from doing an interval workout? Nope. But as of now the long term data view justifies the price for me. But I can easily see how it wouldn’t for everybody.
But then again:
It me.
Just canceled mine
A very narcisstic question but… would it look ridiculous to have an Apple Watch on one wrist and a Whoop on the other? I feel naked without something on my wrist, whilst I can imagine one on each wrist feels odd, but do like a lot of the features of each
It’s pretty common to see people with Whoop on one, and watch on other. Totally the norm.
You can also do as I do, and just wear the Whoop using the bicep band, then it’s hidden from view all the time (and has better accuracy to boot).
It’s been a long time since I had my Whoop, but I feel like there was even a setting to switch it from one arm to the other, isn’t there?
Having the app I don’t see one but I have switched arms before without issue.
Thanks. It was so long ago, I can’t remember if it was the early Whoop, early Fenix, or early AW. Glad to hear that’s gone if it was the early Whoop.
Yeah. I had a similar experience. Wrote a long winded response way up there. Alcohol has a massive impact on HRV but that has nothing to do with your muscle fibers and whether or not they are rested and ready. I’ve had incredible days on the bike with terrible readiness scores because I had some drinks the night before.
The device just doesn’t record HR accurately. Considering that all of the data whoop offers is a byproduct of HR I find it hard to trust any of it. If the HR data is inaccurate then the HRV data is inaccurate, which means the strain data is inaccurate, which means the sleep data is most likely inaccurate, which means the recovery score is inaccurate, which means all the information I’m getting is inaccurate.
I heard the bicep band is much more accurate if you are willing to give that a shot.
I have had some accuracy issues with my wrist band but keeping it 1.5-2” from my wrist bone has generally given me very accurate readings long terms.
I’ve heard the bicep band is much better and if that’s the case I don’t know why it isn’t the default way of using whoop rather than something I have to buy later.
I wear mine on the wrist but with the sensor on the inside. I’ve just always worn watches that way.
I get inaccurate readings when wearing my Whoop on my wrist when cycling (or anything else where my arm/wrist was mining a ton or getting bounced around. I went back to wearing a Garmin Tickr HR strap on rides and also eventually got a Whoop bicep strap. I’ve done many rides with both the Tickr stap and Whoop bicep band and the min, max and average HR numbers are constantly within 1 or 2 beats of each other. I’m confident enough in the wrist strap accuracy when sleeping etc to use the HRV etc data but it reads high on the bike.
I love my bicep band. I wear it most days as I like wearing regular watches and don’t want something on both wrists.