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

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.

I’ve tried every major smart watch and whoop is hands down the worst. It’s basically akin to flushing £250 down the toilet - no ability to tell the time so you have to wear a watch and face the ridicule (why are you wearing 2 watches?) -no ability to track steps and as a fighter it doesn’t log any of the strength activities I do so I don’t meet my strain target even though I’m training for 2 hours a day. There strength training update is there if you have an extra 30mins to stop your workout after every exercise and log what you are doing -the battery life is terrible - the watch is flimsy and the hardware is cheap and faulty, I’ve contacted the help desk numerous times and they never fail to disappoint. By far the worse customer service I have come across. I asked to cancel and was told to follow a link and update my battery?! - personally and in-line with the research tracking your metrics in this way can actually be bad for your health as red scores have a psychological impact on you and I find the red and green recovery score bear no connection to how I’m actually feeling. - I’ve noticed all the advertisements on IG and it’s unethical that they charge their loyal customers more and offer discounts to newcomers. Why wouldn’t their members just leave and sign up again for a discount. Makes no sense whatsoever. It’s cheaper to buy the 4.0 from whoop off amz and you can do instalments which you can’t do with whoop itself ?! - the whoop has no value without the subscription so if you don’t like it you can’t even sell it and recoup some of your money. = save yourself the stress and $000s or $0000s and get a Fitbit, garmin or Apple Watch instead

Honestly when I started using whoop I thought it was some fancy gismo that I probably didn’t need. I had an oura ring before which was a total disappointment because it didn’t enable me to understand my health a lot (it was the version before the subscription model).I joined a few months before 4.0 came out and since then there have been exponential improvements in the app. How has this app saved me:- it has without a doubt improved my sleep schedule to target enough sleep. Anything under 90-95% for several days and my depression flares up. That was a huge insight that probably together with therapy saved my life. Also alerts me to early signs of depression episode, which are correlated with low quality sleep.- helped me remind myself where I am in my hormone cycle to train accordingly - helped me better understand how to recover from my long weekly work commute, turns out stretching before bed fixes pretty much everything - helped me understand how much and how late alcohol affects my recovery enabling me to find a relative sweet spot where I can enjoy without compromising mu recovery too much- recently helped me understand how ‘hard’ I have been working out and therefore how I can pace or push myself - gave me confidence that I have a lot more physical strain resilience in me than I thought.All around one of the best investments in myself. Thanks whoop.