r/whoop

Subtle flex as well. I usually have my split stay as is, but I’ll keep in mind that I might not feel as good, especially if I don’t sleep well! But I still try my best if it’s a 99% recovery or 20%.

So after using whoop for almost a year and 3 months i actually started using it.. its literally a personal trainer for you.

Wanted to share my beautiful 4x4 session because the HR was really textbook. I did a WR Ratio of 2:1 which you can really see very nice. For the rest I did a 7:30 pace except for the last rest where I did a 10:00 pace which you can also see really nice as my Hr drops a lot lower during the last rest.

Since there is a lot of skepsis around the HR tracking of the whoop maybe you find this as refreshing as I do.

Sporty regards

Whoops HR data is consistently off and therefore it calls the entirety of their data into question. I noticed this when doing rowing intervals this morning. Whoops HR was off consistently by 20bpm. I logged my treadmill intervals after noticing that.

This is a short interval sample on the manual to show how drastically different the HR numbers are. Anyone else compare different monitors and arrive at the same conclusion?

Hi everyone. I’ve been wearing WHOOP for about 6 months now. I lift 5-6 days a week, get 11-12k steps a day, I do breath work, sleep enough and get solid sleep consistency, I eat healthy, I take care of myself all around. I’m 22, my WHOOP age is 19, and my pace of aging is 0.3, but my HRV is always so low and my RHR is fairly high given my activity level. I see so many people posting on here with insane stats, so I was hoping for some advice.

I love to lift, so I don’t do much long endurance cardio training. I mostly do cardio in the form of hikes, and 15minutes on the stairmaster 4 days a week. That’s about it. I’m sure bumping this up would help with my RHR, but I’m not sure about HRV. I don’t do any drugs or smoke, I drink max two nights a month.

What else can I do to support my HRV and RHR? I feel horrible waking up to such a low HRV every day. I don’t feel tired throughout the day and I’m getting stronger, so maybe it’s just bad genetics? I’m not sure. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

starting to question how much i’ve been blaming alcohol for my bad recovery

had two red days back to back recently. no alcohol at all. also stopped eating like 3 hours before bed

only thing i changed was food… ate pretty processed stuff, high sodium, sugar etc

what’s messing with me is i used to get these same numbers all the time when i was drinking. and back then i just assumed it was the alcohol

but if i’m being honest those nights also came with worse food choices

so now i’m wondering if i’ve been putting too much blame on alcohol when it’s actually both

like yeah alcohol obviously hits recovery… but this kind of food seems to do a number too, even without it

curious if anyone else has seen this

have you had red days just from bad food alone? or do you still think alcohol is the main driver no matter what

In the last 30 days, I’ve had late night events on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays, which totally trashed my sleep consistency - I’ve included my previous 30 days which is more typical of what I see. For reference I’m 53, don’t drink, and workout 6 days a week (even tho my recent recoveries were telling me not to!). Thought the data was interesting with just that one variable changed and wanted to share!

Cross posting between the garmin sub and here! I’m sure there’s plenty of posts like this already but thought I would most with my exact metrics and share my concern.

For context, I am 24 M, Training for a marathon and just someone who is relatively active and picked up my training intensity at the start of this year. I’ve had a marathon prep block before starting in April into October last year so not new to this kind of intensity. The differences are that this year I’m running a lot more, and doing more of a triathlon training and for majority of this year I didn’t really feel that fatigued or burnt out until recently as my metrics seem to show some concerning signs.

I know these are just wrist devices but can’t help but notice my RHR has been rising and HRV have been plummeting the past few weeks. The usual I’ve tried taking care of sleep even more if I could, eat well before bedtime including fluids, really dial down my workouts including this week (Tapering for a half this weekend).

This week because of these metrics I’ve stopped myself doing my usual workout load and since they haven’t gotten better I just feel even worse because I didn’t workout and my metrics are low so I feel like I should’ve just worked out anyway. I notice maybe I’m slightly more fatigued than usual but idk how much of it is because I’ve been obsessing over these metrics and how much of it is in my head.

I’ve included my Garmin stats as well.

If anyone has any advice or anything insightful that I can try / understand please lmk! Appreciate any help.

Got whoop ~6wks ago. I knew I had an extremely active lifestyle (physical job + intense sport 4-7x per week), and didn’t get enough sleep, but the data is a little tough to digest

Struggling with what I can do to better take care of myself (sleep & calorie intake mostly)

Any advice / guidance?