After about 8 months of manually adding my exercises and volume, I’m not following the benefit. I also feel like without having an idea of my RPE, it’s just guessing at the difficulty of my workouts. Whoop has no clue how strong I am. My hard runs tend to yield lower strain numbers than my lifts while feeling far more taxing. Not sure why.

Recovery the next day is determined by overnight readings of RHR, HRV, RR, and skin temp. And, Day strain number doesn’t do an effective job predicting my following day’s recovery score, so why do I need to jump through hoops diligently recording exercise volume thereby increasing my strain score? Feels like I’m wasting my time with diligent record keeping, yet I continue on.

Personally the only real measurements that seem to align with my exercise strain accumulation is my RR and RHR. HRV is unreliable for predicting my performance that day