WHOOP Band 4.0 | Worth it for Non-Athlete?

Hope you find this helpful! Be sure to grab the sleep optimization PDF in the description. If you have an experience with WHOOP or other trackers, would love to hear about it below. Thanks for watching! - Lucas @ YOGABODY

After watching this video and watching you talking to Rob the scientist. You are shocking, not listening to him, looking away , iam guessing looking at your phone. Not looking at him or listening. Absolutely shocking.

Very helpful video. Thanks!

The HR sensor is really BAD!

Thank you for sharing 🙏❤️

Very honest review thank you

This device has really help me with my sleep and stress levels. The lack of sleep was really affecting my stress levels and my mindset

My understanding is that only a chest strap measures HRV accurately. The Oura ring second.

Gonna wear it cause it looks cool

Just seems abit overkill spending £324 to be told i need more sleep.

Pretty sure taking cold showers increases your body temp 🤔

Excellent honest review. Since making your video they have introcued a strength trainer feature which will help track muscular load and include that towards your strain for more of an accurate/overall picture. Really useful for people who do strength training.

I’ve had mine for a couple of months now and I’m leaning towards giving it up after the 12 month commitment is fulfilled. First, I don’t like having it on my wrist, so I bought a few pieces of their apparel. Now as I use the alarm feature to wake up, I move it back to my wrist to sleep. Well this WIDLY distorted the feedback, more than once telling me that I didn’t sleep at all during the night. Why offer the choice to wear it other places if that doesn’t work. Second, the on boarding for the device is absent, so a new user has to use videos like this and other third party sources just to understand what the product does. That’s horrific marketing! I still have no idea what some of the metrics mean as I’m far too busy in my life to research and cross reference third party sources.
TLDR: if would only wear it on your wrist and if you do dozens of hours of research then maybe this product is for you. If you just want sleep data, buy a used Apple Watch on eBay and save yourself hundreds of dollars just in the first year.

I have myalgic encephalomyelitis so just walking to the shop is a workout for me! But… having had Whoop 4.0 data for the past two months has massively helped me to “pace” when life makes that possible and reduces my post-exertion malaise or “crashes”, so even though I’m someone who could never be considered athletic, the Whoop has helped me manage my condition so much better than I could have done without it.
Importantly, it’s very comfortable to wear - I haven’t been able to wear jewellery for years now, as it wears me down.

I would like to share my experience with people who are considering whether to purchase the Whoop device. Since I feel very scammed and maybe I can help others to buy another device better.

After trying the device and seeing that it did not work well for me and I decided to return it. Being within the 30 day trial period. Before I purchased it the customer service team was very attentive. But once you try to return it everything changes. No one answers your messages. When you try to cancel the membership they tell you that they are going to charge you for the rest of the months. They don't send you the return label. i.e. they don't answer you so that those 30 days are over and then they can tell you that you have already passed the deadline. I have found other people who have also been scammed. Please think twice before purchasing a device because you are going to get scammed if you want to return it.

Interesting, but I'm somewhat confused. Rob said if you know resting hr that's very correlated with HRV. If that's true I'm not sure why the emphasis on HRV? A point though is my fitbit is horrendous and giving me a resting hr. I use a polar verity sense in the morning to get an accurate resting hr. These are just thoughts.

How does it differ to fitbit. Fitbit also tracks heart rate variability and the stages accurately.

Huff and puff exercise = better health is a total myth. HIIT is far more beneficial for health and fitness.

Bummer, I didn't know that Whoop measured sleep stages by way of body movement (in addition to heart rate). I have severe insomnia and mild REM behavior disorder. I don't move at all for HOURS a night when I'm wide awake, and I unfortunately move during REM sleep. I was hoping the Whoop wouldn't base their sleep statistics so much on movement. Other than that, this is a superb video. Thanks for the invaluable information.

As someone who is overweight and have really bad sleeping habits as well as need to cut down drinking. I want a whoop so bad to hold me accountable and make me make smarter decisions. I might buy a year long membership from them and just bite the bullet pay a whole one year sum and stick to it. I think one year on whoop would probably work wonders for me. I already can exercise and eat better and have been but I want something that’ll show me hey you need to get up off your butt and move around!

Im a 52 YO female that’s been struggling to get back into working out (I was very active until a major life change about 3 years ago) and my overall health under control including sleep. Your thoughts on how purchasing the WHOOP may help me ?

Thanks for this great review. I’ve been thinking of getting a Whoop device for a while now. I’m a man in my mid 50’s. Like you found, I know my current sleep amount of time and quality is terrible. Here in Scotland I can buy a whoop membership for a year up front with a discount for around the equivalent of $290, so about $24 a month. On a separate note, I’m also looking at your yoga videos as I think it could help my golf and general flexibility and aches, pains and niggles. Thanks for everything.

Would this be a good device on someone who has seizures?

Been using Whoop for 10 months now and found it very helpful. I keen to push more on my training days and not be lazy like I sometimes used to be. I also like all the data it tracks, as it helps me with my habits and routines. All in all, it works for me, however, it's not for everyone, which is fine.

Almost everything you can pretty much get with a Fitbit without that absurd membership cost. What a racquet, are they serious with that price?

Brilliant honest view, thank you.

Great video! Do you think this tracker could be helpful for someone with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome?

Whoop however, only measures HRV in the last block of deep sleep during your night. So it’s a snapshot, not by definition truth. My other HRV meter says = 65-75 within 15 minutes after waking up or during daytime, whole my average Whoop HRV is around 30…
That said, I like the whoop and the data, however the HRV is not always saying something useful i.m.o.

Be absolutely clear that Whoop’s sleep tracker is highly flawed. Last night it recorded that I “awake” for 4 hours and 35 minutes. Total nonsense..

Wow, thanks for the explanation about HRV…it really helped me understand the significance. I just upgraded to the Whoop 4.0, loved your insights. You def seem like an athlete though!

I've been very pleased with Whoop's HRV metric. I wear a Fitbit, and it shows my HRV as very low, and varies very little from day to day. The Whoop shows it considerably higher and with considerably more variation day to day. It has also shown a slow but continuous improvement over the past 8 months, which helps motivate me to keep the cardio going. (The improvement is not really detectable on the Fitbit, so I wouldn't have realized I was still improving if not for the Whoop. And I believe Whoop's heart rate data is more accurate.)

Great video, and thanks for including me in this Lucas! Always a pleasure 😊

Hey Lucas, good video but you didn't cover the one main issue that has kept me from trying wearable technology--EMF fields and their potential effect on the body. As an alternative health practitioner and energy therapist who utilizes several different forms of energy "medicine" (PEMF, FSM, NLS, Reiki), I've had concerns that wearable technology could have small but detrimental effects to the human biofield. There are some very sensitive meridians that run through the wrist. Unfortunately, no one that I am aware of has done any kind of clinical or peer-reviewed testing to determine if there are any such effects and until then, I'll have to hold off on using such devices.

I have really come to like my whoop strap. I saw a noticeable improvement during the science of stretching coach training. It was my first foray out of weightlifting in a while and whoop definitely demonstrated cardio improvement. Saying this to agree with two of your points: 1. Whoop does better with cardio than weight training (started with whoop 3.0 and then 4.0 which is about 3.5 years of use) and 2. I saw improvement with stretch training which I will equate to your comments on yoga.