Great review. I have a similar experience, I took advantage of the free month, but did not purchase a further subscription. However, they did not demand the return of the wristband, and to this day I have not saved any new data in the application. But you can connect to external applications and then the wristband is a data source. But it's worth taking for this month, because it opened my eyes to HRV, RHR, the need for sleep, etc. It gives motivation to change habits, this is the greatest value. After half a year, it all came down to buying Polar H10 and monitoring HRV in the free Elite HRV application. If I don't get enough sleep, I eat before bed, I have an injury and a break in physical activity, etc., I won't cheat on this indicator, because it is easier to measure than sleep stages.
Great review! Have been wanting Whoop for some time but this decided against it. I have a Garmin Forerunner 255, and I really miss that training load feature, this model doesn’t have that. I’ve had periods of fatigue and have been looking after my HRV. At first I didn’t trust the watch when it told me to take it slow, and ended up with a month off everything, and that really made me sure that the watch actually knows better than I do 😅 I do not trust sleep stages, but I do se at they got better when I stopped coffee at noon rather than at 3PM. I get irritated when the metrics are off, like I returned my Polar watch bc the steps were just insane, always 3000-5000 more than the Fitbit I had before. Every watch has something I like, but I am most happy with Garmin and think I should rather buy a newer version of that instead of Whoop…. I love diving into stats etc, but since I’m located in Norway, the whole thing with return and poor customer service from Whoops kinda scares me, I don’t have time for that.. I think I just rather listen more to their podcast and learn things without having the stats to confirm I guess.
Great review! I had mine when it first came out & like it for what it was but hated paying monthly lol so as soon as the new Apple Watch kinda caught up to everything it did I got out of that contract immediately. It shouldn’t be a monthly charge given the free companies are taking some of their metrics
