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Sharing an experience here:

I've been a Whoop wearer for over 3 years. I've very in tune with my overnight heart rate. It is very stable but I'll occasionally see a higher than usual number if I 1) drank alcohol or 2) ate late. The most I'll stray over normal is ~5 bpm.

The night before last I was on a road trip for work. After an afternoon meeting my co-worker and I grabbed an early dinner (done by 6pm) that included two glasses of wine. After dinner I went back to my hotel room and worked/watched TV/chilled until 11pm. During my time in the hotel room (a nice hotel room in Chicago) I would notice an oily/sooty smell come and go. It wasn't overly offensive and it wasn't bad enough to make me think to switch rooms.

The next day (yesterday), I get up and headed to a conference. I was speaking on a panel in a large room. I had been prepping for a while and it went really well. After the conference I headed to the airport.

Whilst sitting at the gate I was curious about what my heart rate was during the panel. I opened the whoop app (for the first time that day) and was really surprised to see a red recovery. I was even more surprised to see "very elevated" overnight heart rate. My heart rate was 20 bpm higher than normal.

Last night I slept at home at it reverted to normal.

I travel often and know that air travel/drinks/dinner out/hotel conditions can throw a wrench in recoveries but this was pretty alarming.

I'm fairly convinced I was huffing carbon monoxide all night. I think there was an HVAC issue.

Going forward, I will keep a portable CO monitor in my travel bag.

Opened my app and now see PRs and history for each exercise!! Finally feel like the feature is really usable. Thanks Whoop team!

So I was in a rush to the airport and forgot my whoop charger in my car… I quickly figured out that it’s impossible to get a whoop charger delivered here within the time frame of me being in Tokyo or Seoul (next week). I’m like 20 days away from my 365 streak 😭😭😭 does anyone in either cities have a charger I can borrow? I’ll buy you dinner or lunch while I charge as a thank you.

I ordered Whoop family pack directly from their website since beginning of this month and only the battery pack and sunglasses delivered.

For the main whoop bands, it’s been almost a month and the order is still waiting to be processed. Tried to email the customer service 4 times already and they just told me to wait.

Should I be worried? Can Whoop people here check what’s going on? I can provide my order number.

Anyone experience this kind of issue? A friend of mine also wait almost a month as well. Is this normal for whoop to do this?

Been paying for WHOOP for long-term health/recovery tracking, only to find out my heart rate data has apparently been inaccurate for a long time due to a “bug.” Since WHOOP builds everything off heart rate data, that means my HRV, recovery, sleep stress, strain, and basically all historical metrics may also be inaccurate.

Support literally admitted they cannot retroactively fix or recalibrate any of the historical data once it’s processed. So months of data and “insights” I paid for are essentially unreliable now.

Their solution? Move the band higher on my wrist, offer a free bicep band, and give 1 month credit on a membership that costs hundreds of dollars and is supposed to be based on accurate long-term trends.

What’s the point of a health tracking subscription if the foundational data is wrong and they can’t repair it afterward? Hard to trust any future data when the old data it learned from is already corrupted.

Resting heart rate is always above 105 somehow, recovery is never green because everything is based of RHR and HRV, metabolic age is insanely inaccurate because of the RHR.

It’s the first time the alarm doesn’t go off.

Anyone had this before?

What’s the point of an AI coach if it doesn’t even know the current date? Yesterday (May19), I asked it to recommend workouts based on my previous day’s strain and current recovery, but it pulled strain from April 9. This is a basic use case that even non-AI systems can handle.

Here you go:

 https://app.whoop.com/membership/cancel\](https://app.whoop.com/membership/cancel

I was actually trying to check my membership and the fact that they are making it so difficult for people to cancel made me actually cancel my membership early. The fact that they force you to take a survey before you can cancel is just the icing on the cake.

I know I'll attract the usual people who will defend everything and will blame the user for not finding the cancelation screen but I'll take it if it helps a few others save time.

I just switched from oura. Whys everyone hate whoop so much? It’s so much better than oura.

Help me understand?

Hi All,

I joined the Whoop sub a few days ago after buying the £350 life subscription with the Whoop 5 MG.

I’m coming from an Apple Watch Ultra. The tattoos on my arms meant the watch was useless for readings, so I made the change.

Maybe I should have joined this sub before buying. It seems overwhelmingly anti Whoop and I’m wondering what I’ve got myself into.

I’ve only been wearing it a couple of days, so don’t have access to much yet in app. So can’t judge it for myself.

I see a lot of people are cancelling and the general feeling is negative. Lots of comments about Whoops demise. So really while I’m still within the return period If someone experienced could tell me what’s going on I would be really grateful.

Has it been something specific that’s made Whoops user base turn on them? On paper the device looks good, so I assume it’s something else.

Would really appreciate the insight so I can make an informed decision on keeping it or not.

Thanks

Hey guys, I had a whoop MG that I bought just a month ago with the 12-month subscription, but while I was swimming in the ocean it fell off. Idk if it was the clasp but unfortunatly after lookjing for it forever i lost it. I pasued my membership for 3 months so that I can get a replacment in the meantime but do u guys think that emailing them and telliung them about my situation woudld help. I already created a service request and got an AI response back saying that I need to buy a new device for 70 dollars, but I think due to mine being the MG device itll be more. Should I look onlien for used 4.0 devices or do somthing else as I dont want to waste the 12 months I have left.

Edit: They replied to another email I had sent and had offered a replacement MG band! Thank you so much for the help guys. Great customer support!

I cancelled my Whoop subscription over a week ago. Today on my renewal date they tried to take £349 out of my account. Luckily its a throw away account and nothing was in it or i'd never have seen that again. Today i've cancelled yet again.

Anyone else had this happen? Is a cancellation in Whoop not really a cancellation these days with these guys?

I got a notification from whoop so I clicked on it unknowingly and immediately my subscription got renewed without confirmation and I had to go back to their site and of course it takes forever to do a simple cancellation due to the survey. My question is why can you renew your subscription just by clicking on a whoop notif but you can’t cancel on the app it’s just a bit shady to me. Obviously I know they want to cause friction for cancellation but man that threw me in for a loop. Like really off a notification you just renewed it right under my nose? If I was older or a bit more unaware that would have flew right under my nose without me knowing.

People in this group just shit on whoop. You bought it, quit whining for christ sakes. Did you not do any research into alternatives before the purchase? You’re upset about the subscription? Cancel it.
I pay for it with my HSA card, so It’s like I never even see it leave my bank. I know not everyone has that, but if you can’t afford the sub and you don’t want to pay for it, just use something else. It’s just so damn annoying when people in the group have a whoop and just complain about whoop being trash. I love it. Tracks everything I want and I don’t have a screen.

Edit: did not think so many people would be pissed about the way I use my HSA 😂