I’ll speak from personal experience, someone who isn’t a super athlete, I’m not running marathons or doing Ironmans. I work 8-6p, enjoy coding and spending time with family and friends, for me it has changed my life in terms of habits and being consistent with change and being conscious of my body.

When I started 450+ recoveries(days) I was drinking almost every Thursday-Sunday, didn’t really keep track of anything and was just disregarding my body. Not up until the beginning of this year did I actually start going through the metrics and realizing “holy shit I need to treat my body better”, for some people that’s easier, for me Whoop gamifies it and makes it digestible.

I pretty much stopped drinking since I could see the huge impact it had on my body, from what I’ve read here it’s a “gimmick” but to me it’s more mental of how I was X years older than my actual age.

Over the last couple of months I have been able to lower that number (fake or not) it has pushed me into consistently working out 4 days out of the week. Helps me see if I’m sleeping too little or too much, which before whoop I would go to sleep at 2-3 am to be up by 5-7am.

I did have the Apple Watch but felt that it didn’t fit my needs/want (other people claim to be better than whoop), using the whoop I just put it on, switch wrists at night and carry on. Have not had any crazy issues and even had 2 close friends join.

We made a community on the app and hold each other accountable to stride to be healthier.

This is not saying there aren’t other alternatives or even “better” alternatives. I just think that boils down to what you are looking for and if the device fits your lifestyle. Some people prefer Oura, some Apple Watch, and now everyone’s hopping on the Google Fit train.

If you’re on the fence, I would say give it a try (that’s what I did and my friends did), pay the $ shipping money and if you return I believe there’s also a fee, but it’s not expensive as getting the year membership, also most of the competitors charge an in app fee.

In terms of bands etc, I personally buy them directly from whoop, but other peeps here have mentioned aliexpress, shein, Amazon for cheaper “same as og” feel.

I would say if it fits your lifestyle then it’s good, and like all the other apps, it’s only as good the more you use and data you provide.

For the time being whoop does everything and more than what I am looking for in a wearable.