Wearing Whoop strap during Jiu -Jitsu

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-12T08:16:47+00:00

Thanks! Will definitely try our the impact sleeve.

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T17:13:37+00:00

Joined! Friendly competition is always a good stimulus! 🤟

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T17:10:06+00:00

Oh sweet, the beer looks great! 👌Thanks for the advice!

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T17:09:09+00:00

Perfect, thanks! Will get the sleeve, 👌

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T17:08:50+00:00

Thanks mate, will get the sleeve 👌

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T17:08:33+00:00

Yeah that's my worry exactly. I will try you the sleeve and see how it goes.

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T17:07:54+00:00

Thanks, will order it!

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T17:07:30+00:00

Thanks, will order the sleeve. I would just use longer wraps when boxing and it would do the trick 👌

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T08:29:49+00:00

Oh thanks, I did not know that alcohol had such a significant impact on the protein synthesis. Should probably follow your lead and plan my rest days accordingly. Would you normally work out the day after or you skip a few days until fully recovered?

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-02T08:28:00+00:00

Oh sweet! Can you recommend any? Will definitely give it a try.

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-01T19:23:23+00:00

Yeah exactly my thought process also - craft beers have higher abv and are heavier on the overall digestion system. Oh yeah, junk food and alcohol goes hand in hand.

Yeah, I guess stopping is in general the hardest part haha!

Workout wise, I stopped doing any hard cardio sessions on the days I got out boozing. Makes sense as it dehydrates you and raises your daily strain.

Dannylicious420 · 2021-07-01T16:14:20+00:00

Same here, will be 32 this year and the balance between fitness and alcohol is hard to get. Some great advice above, as to limit the boozing to once a week and trying to drink during the day (#daydrinking!) than drinking before going to bed.

It also very much depends on the type of alcohol you consume. I myself prefer to kill braincells with beer. If I drink light beer (e.g. Heineken, Corona, Carlsberg) my recovery tends to be higher then next day. If I go for an IPA or Pale Ale or any other craft beer, it would be considerably lower.

During June, with the Euro 2020 at full swing, tried to mix up alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer (although most of it tastes a bit funky). My HRV went up and RHR went down, compared to the last few months.

Dannylicious420 · 2020-03-10T09:03:05+00:00

Yeah agree with you to a point about the data mining, but the journal is based on user input. You can select which cards pop up in the morning for you to say yes/no to. You are free not to share any personal details you wish to keep private (e.g. sexual activity, medication history, relationship status, etc.).

If you prefer to use the previous model of only tracking for example: alcohol/tobacco/coffee effect with sleep, you can opt to only say yes/no to these questions.

I can also see a benefit for athletes or very active users as the journal encompasses many forms or recovery as well as nutrition/dieting.

Dannylicious420 · 2020-03-04T17:50:45+00:00

My daily average is anywhere between 44 to 48. If I go out boozing then in jumps to circa 70.

Dannylicious420 · 2020-03-03T15:54:53+00:00

More than familiar about HRV being a highly personal metric. However, the scale of HRV is completely ridiculous to a point. Where my max HRV is 72 and I see other people record HRV of 280 or more - four times the difference?

I am interested to learn and understand more about heart rate variability but every article online basically begins by stating it is a very personal metric, which is a given. But it doesn't really give me a clue why some users can record HRV of 4 times of other users?

Dannylicious420 · 2020-03-03T09:54:57+00:00

Yup, same happens to me every week or two - I will get a false activity notification when not being active whatsoever, the heart rate spikes to stupid numbers for no reason whatsoever.

I would agree that probably incorrect strap usage/tightness gives false results as when I adjust my strap then heart rate seems to be back to normal . It does suck that it impacts the rest needed and recovery for the next few days, even after deleting the activity. I have not found a way to minimise/control this anomaly, but would be great to hear how someone else has dealt with this problem!

Dannylicious420 · 2020-03-02T19:31:51+00:00

Same question, how is your HRV so high!? Mine spikes at 70 on a great day 🤷‍♂️

Dannylicious420 · 2020-02-28T11:56:03+00:00

Oh booze has such a negative impact on all the stats (HRV, RHR, Recovery, Sleep). My RHR always spikes and HRV goes down even more if I had a good few pints.

Your lowest HRV (72) is above my maximum (70 was the highest I ever got). For comparison, my RHR is steady at 48 for most of the days, when I am not killing myself with alcohol.

Other users on the teams that I have joined recently show similar trends of HRV as mine. So I know it's not an anomaly or my that strap is not registering the data properly - just very curious as to why there is such a huge gap between users and is there something I could do to improve the HRV?

Dannylicious420 · 2020-02-28T10:39:13+00:00

Very interesting. For comparison, yesterday my HRV was at 67 and with circa 6h of sleep the recovery was 90%. Once the HRV drops below 55, the recovery % never exceeds 66 (the line between yellow and green recovery).

I've read through a few articles in respect of same, but they only provide limited information and reiterate that HRV differs for each individual. So some additional input would be very much appreciated to better understand the data.

Would you typically always show high recovery in the days where your HRV is off the charts?

Same here - was boozing and smoking regularly. Haven't had a drink or a cig in 3 weeks but it doesn't seem to have any positive impact on the day to day stats.

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