Whoop ticked me off with their 5.0/MG shenanigans so I decided to go all-in on Apple. This thing is gorgeous - and doesn’t look nearly as unwieldy on my (female) wrist as I thought it might!!

I think most people understand that developing a new product costs a lot of money and I think a lot of us are willing to pay for that new product as long as they feel like Whoop cares about us. I believe that people at Whoop care about the end customer but I definitely didn’t feel that way this week

Hi folks,
I am back with a longer term comparison between the most popular no-screen wearables.

TL;DR

• RHR trends align very well across brands.
• HRV trends align well for Helio, Oura, WHOOP, Polar. Garmin HRV trend is the outlier in my data.
• Sleep duration is consistently measured across all

“Oh that blog post we posted a while back, yea we changed our mind. That’s not our policy because it doesn’t suit us now and we screwed up” That’s how this reads and that’s not exactly how any trading standards agency will see it. You cannot sell a product for years and years with pretence of free u

I was one of the people who, angry about the way Whoop handled the 5.0/MG launch, rage-quit and switched to an apple watch. Even after the "upgrade fee" issue was resolved for users like me who had a long subscription remaining, I was still mad that upgrading would mean I would lose all the bands I

The Apple Watch Ultra 3 delivers some of the most accurate health and fitness tracking ever tested, according to The Quantified Scientist. In controlled experiments comparing it to professional reference equipment, it achieved near-perfect heart rate tracking (R = 1.00) during indoor cycling and exc

As promised in the previous comparison - Three months with WHOOP MG 5.0, Oura 4, Polar365/Loop, Garmin Instinct 3, Helio strap - here’s the follow‑up focused on half‑marathon heart‑rate measurement.

I also incorporated feedback from the last post; this time I included the Polar H10 as a reference

This comment on another post showed how to file down a 4.0 strap to work with the 5.0 https://www.reddit.com/r/whoop/s/24FvE8WvD3 It's crazy how small the difference is, they definitely should have just made the bands compatible. If their subscription costs don't cover their business costs and they

That’s crazy how Apple has changed the size of the Apple Watch, even introducing a gigantic model, and the bands they introduced over 10 years ago still work! Changing the “form factor” is a poor excuse. Whoop has a few sensors but overall the most important one is the optical HR one, and this was n

Just got my Whoop 5.0 MG. Hoping to be younger on my Whoop Age than my actual age. Disappointed but not really surprised. i’m 76.4, 3.4 years more than I actually am. Not all bad news. My pace of ageing is in the right direction so I am getting younger. I know some of this is strength training which