WHOOP Performance Optimization 4+

Name: WHOOP Performance Optimization
Rating: 4.6 (1437 reviews)
Author: WHOOP

WHOOP

- 4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

- Free

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Description

WHOOP is a wearable that tracks sleep, strain, recovery, stress, and health biometrics 24/7, providing you with personalized coaching based on your goals to help unlock your best performance. WHOOP is screenless, so all of your data lives in the WHOOP app — for a distraction-free focus on your health. The WHOOP app requires a WHOOP wearable.

WHOOP does more than track your activity — it translates your data into clear next steps. WHOOP captures your biometrics 24/7 to calibrate specifically to your body’s unique physiology, then recommending everything from when to go to bed to what behaviors to adopt to help you reach your goals.

Here's how it works:

Sleep: Every night, WHOOP calculates your sleep performance by measuring the sleep you got
compared to the sleep your body needs. You'll wake up to a sleep score from 0 to 100%. Sleep Planner lets you know when you should go to bed to optimize your performance the following day. Now, with the release of WHOOP 4.0, Sleep Planner can also wake you when you've set an exact time, once you've reached your sleep goal, or when you're fully recovered using a quiet, vibrating haptic alarm.

Strain: WHOOP does more than just track your activity – it measures how much physical and mental stress you put on yourself throughout your day to calculate a daily Strain score ranging from 0 to 21. WHOOP measures both your cardiovascular and muscular load, even quantifying the impact of your strength training, to give you the most comprehensive view of the demands you put on your body. Every day, Strain Target will recommend your optimal target exertion range based on your Recovery score to help you maximize your gains without sacrificing your Recovery.

Stress: WHOOP gives you daily insight about your stress, and science-backed techniques to help manage it. Get a real-time stress score from 0-3, and based on your score, choose a breathwork session to either increase your alertness for performance, or increase relaxation in a stressful moment. See your stress trends over time to identify triggers.

Recovery: WHOOP lets you know how ready you are to perform by measuring your heart-rate variability, resting heart rate, sleep, and respiratory rate. You'll get a daily Recovery score on a scale of 0 to 100%. When you're in the green, you're ready for strain, when you're in the yellow or red, you may want to evaluate your training program.

Behaviors: Track the impact of over 140 daily habits and behaviors, like alcohol intake, medication, stress, and more, to better understand how these various behaviors help or hurt you.

WHOOP Coach: Ask questions about your health & fitness and get highly personalized, specific-to-you answers on demand. Using your unique biometric data, the latest in performance science, and OpenAI's technology, WHOOP Coach generates responses on everything from training plans to why you’re feeling tired.

What else you can do in the WHOOP app:

• Dig into the details: See a breakdown of your activities by heart rate zone, and even see trends across Sleep, Strain, and Recovery up to 6 months at a time to adjust your behaviors, training, plans and more
• Join a team: Stay motivated and accountable by joining a team. Chat directly with your teammates in the app, or as a coach, see how your team's training is going
• Apple Health: WHOOP integrates with Apple's Health app to sync activities and personalize your experience

WHOOP provides products and services designed for general fitness and wellness purposes. WHOOP products and services are not medical devices, not intended to treat or diagnose any disease, and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content available through WHOOP products and services is for general informational purposes only.

29 Oct 2024

Version 4.6.301

Various bug fixes and performance improvements

4.6 out of 5

1.4K Ratings

This app changed my life

I struggled with sleeping problems relating to back problems for nearly 4 years. Doctors could not help, my rheumatologist could not help. I tried every sleep hygiene technique in the book. I became obsessed with sleep. I used a Garmin for a year and it constantly gave me worrying readings. I thought I wasn’t sleeping properly at all. I was so obsessed and it was ruining my life. Then I decide to try Whoop. And it was completely revolutionary. Firstly the language the app uses to describe sleep, for example “get to bed by X” instead of “get to sleep by X” is used to de-emphasise and take the pressure of sleeping. Now instead of obsessing over some arbitrary sleep score from Garmin, I am looking at my total amount of time in bed. This shift in perception alone has made me sleep deeper, for much longer, with vivid dreams again. I cannot begin to express my gratitude to the developers of this app, and I will continue to use this app forever. The gift they have given me is literally priceless

Great, when it works.

I’ve had the whoop app and accompanying strap for almost 2 years. For the latter part of that I’ve been signed up for 18 months, otherwise I would have terminated the service by now. The app / strap (both whoop 3 and 4) have been very buggy. I’ve had to contact customer service quite a lot. A few times they have resolved the issues, or firmware updates have fixed them… sometimes the device just starts working again for no apparent reason. It feels like I’m paying equivalent to £30 per month to take part in beta testing. I won’t be renewing the service and will probably be trying a fit bit instead… On a positive note, when everything is working, the device and app are great. The data is insightful and does help drive positive change by gamifying recovery and wellness. There may be days where I’ve not felt so great and perhaps would have pushed myself to go have a workout anyway, and vice versa, perhaps sometimes I don’t need a rest day… having the data as a second opinion is useful. Calorie tracking also useful in conjunction with tracking calorie intake for weight gain/weight loss goals.

Edit: I’ve had further issues with my device/app since writing this review. Will now be switching back to Apple Watch and using the app ‘Athlytic’ instead.

Many imperfect but interesting features

Whoop is great, for about the first 3-4 months. It allowed me to track my habits that have affected my recovery, and helped me make a few lifestyle changes but. 1) once you figured out the 1 or 2 things that affect recovery whoop fails to deliver on reliable insights or even new insights 2) it’s sold as performance optimisation but you can’t set your heart rate zones, it also won’t adjust to your zones naturally so therefore all recovery and strain calculations are off 3) with strain and recovery as imperfect measure it completely loses all value. I’d rather buy an Apple Watch for RHR, Sleep and HRV than subscribe to whoop for £200+ a year 4) the insights they try to sell you on can’t really be customised and don’t really make for a compelling feature just yet 5) the strength trainer doesn’t work without data so gyms in hotels when in a basement are a huge issue. Even weak WiFi won’t be enough for it to work well. Then there are simple features like stopping,starting,pausing and editing workouts on the fly are not there or don’t work well 6) whoop can’t replace a smart watch as it can’t track exercise at all, it’s probably less accurate than Strava and it’s way too unreliable. Overall whoop should stick to one of many features and improve it rather than try to do too much. Not worth the money yet.

The developer, WHOOP, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

Health & Fitness
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Sensitive Info
Diagnostics
Other Data

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Information

Provider

Whoop Incorporated

Size

383 MB