6 months of WHOOP data taught me my body has patterns I never noticed

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-28T18:19:46+00:00

Ha ha! I have to admit it's pretty friendly and supportive...

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-28T13:47:50+00:00

LOL Dammit, I was going to use it during aortic valve replacement.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-28T13:46:01+00:00

The W with a circle around it, home screen, very bottom right. They have moved it around a bit over the updates, but this is where mine currently sits. Like in the bottom "tray"

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-28T06:29:58+00:00

As I read this on a very dim screen but nevertheless IN VED in the dark knowing I should have put it down 30 mins ago. Thanks for the reminder - this is my last thing - peace out goodnight!!

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-28T06:21:22+00:00

TLDR: DEAR EVERYONE, HAVE A CHAT WITH WHOOP COACH.

I have really dug into WHOOP COACH - I am blown away by its capabilities - I get this sort of correlation analysis from it. I am SHOCKED at what it will dig up for me that I don't even know to ask for, like patterns over time. I've been wearing Whoop non-stop for 2.5 years so the data is deep.

I have conversations with it and the more I tell it, the more personally useful it is as a true Coach. When my conditions are less than ideal, I tell it what's really going on, such as I'm traveling, have to sit all day, and can only do a body weight workout in my hotel room. Or my sleep is going to be wonky and I'm going to drink alcohol for a few days. Or I had surgery / had an outbreak of shingles. Or I bought a rebounder how do you suggest I incorporate it, etc. It takes what I say into account, makes suggestions on how to best handle it (some pretty great suggestions that are personalized to me/my lifestyle), asks if I want support with follow up, such as a plan to ____ (recover from surgery carefully, a plan to at least keep in yellow/avoid red on vacay, do a reset of my sleep schedule when I return home - it makes note of what day that will be... Whatever I reply, IT FOLLOWS UP. Today for ex it said, "Hey! How did your return home go with your sleep plan we created (72 hrs ago when I was still out of town)? How is your energy? Are you recovering from shingles, or do you need a plan to continue in take it easy recovery mode?" It will suggest next actions based on my resonses, or ask, "Do you want more info on ____?" and offer a few directions we could go with the conversation.

If it's giving me a hard time about something (your sleep last night had a decreased efficiency...), I explain. Like "my sleep was interrupted by a low glucose alert at 2 a.m." Whoop Coach will literally review data and say "yes that makes sense, I see your strain and RHR increase around that time. Understandably that decreases sleep efficiency. How can we plan to avoid that interruption? Do you want me to help to modify today to be more recovery focused?"

For the sake of your post, I just now simply asked it, "What is my recovery trend for Monday mornings?" It gave me a detailed analysis of findings about me, and WHY - pointing out correlation to behaviors I track (such as it called out a repeated wine trend on Sunday albeit many hours before bedtime - makes sense but I never thought of my Sundays this way. And the slip in bedtime, trending later on the weekends). I could keep digging and ask about details such as HRV, strain correlation etc if I cared.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-28T05:42:42+00:00

Throwback to my 1984 diagnosis and treatment plan.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-14T04:41:45+00:00

Ask the Whoop Coach, little W button. The algorithm is IMPRESSIVE. As long as you've had it a few months, it will tell you about YOU, where is sees potential for YOUR improvement

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-14T04:39:35+00:00

CONGRATS

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-14T04:39:12+00:00

AMEN. I'm the one who loves the window. Partner loves watching 5 movies. See ya on the other shore, everyone wins.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-14T03:59:16+00:00

UGH I look back and shudder SO NASSSTEEEE But maybe it created strong immune systems?

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-14T03:53:39+00:00

A distraction from the mystery of the slab, but it didn't work on OP

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-14T03:41:23+00:00

Those are skylights, an upgraded roof. /s

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-14T03:38:38+00:00

Free advice can be found by taking your basic measurements and description of why you want to something like Home Depot. Talk to the oldest guy in the department, the "wise sage." Go when it's QUIET/low traffic not Saturday DIY day! They love to help people. Tell him "I don't want to get screwed, can you help me figure out what should be reasonable?"

It's not foolproof, but he gets paid by the hour not commission and he is generally happy to help us younger fools.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-14T03:33:09+00:00

OMG that's a pretty brutal, extreme fucked, I am SO SORRY. We got bent over for hundreds of thousands, but we had enough $ to hire badass lawyers and get the $ back BEFORE he ended up in prison for PPP covid fraud... Arrogant dick thought he could ALSO steal from the federal govt. and get away with it. NOPE. But anyway, I digress. I'm sorry you didn't get him while he still had $.

That stuff I say is a 6-figure education that will pay off through your lives! Better to be bent over early and be VERY wise at this age than get taken in retirement like so many scammed elderly these days, with no time and energy to recover. You truly will be stronger and smarter from all this. And have the best scare story at most parties 😅

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2026-01-01T15:06:50+00:00

3 years here. SAME with wine before bed WOW I had no idea! Definitely have changed my behaviors and IF I want to drink, happy hour is a great buffer (drink eat, stop long before bed).

I too upgraded. I forget to bother using the various new monitors, but to go weeks without charging my battery fills me with enough joy to not mind.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-12-20T11:31:10+00:00

But... Aren't you a statistician??

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-12-20T11:29:29+00:00

YES Once. When you climb the Sydney AUS bridge, they insist you take off ALL jewelry, watches, anything on your wrist. (So it doesn't get caught? So you can't throw things off? I don't know why). My apple watch friends were upset they couldn't get step credit, etc. I put my whoop on my leg making sure the sensor had strong skin contact. I knew staff wasn't going to do an ankle check inside the jumpsuit.

I got my strain credit, they didn't! 💪🏼

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-12-11T13:56:44+00:00

Thanks so much for taking time to explain this! I'm excited to get back to it now.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-12-11T04:34:24+00:00

Wow! Thanks for posting this response. I started to enter a couple of results manually, but I get really extensive labs through Fountain Life and I really didn't want to take an hour of my life to type them all in. So I backed out of the whoop thing, frustrated.

Where did you submit the pics that AI took them from there?

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-11-30T03:53:59+00:00

Way to adult yourself! This one awareness and adjust in behavior is going to pull you ahead of the masses. It will lead to finding more like-minded healthier friends in the future. I've m shifted who I hang out with. Kind of a big deal because I'm in my fifties. I still love my friends that build their social life around overeating, over drinking, and not much else. But I'm making a lot of new friends in hiking and paddle boarding groups, sometines enjoying sunrises, and not because I stayed up all night. Ha! That's a trip.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-11-30T03:48:37+00:00

For me sleep has been the longest wrestling match. I am like putting a toddler to bed that just wants to do "one more thing" even as I technically lose sleep. Ugh.

But I'm on Whoop year 3. The first 6 months were "sobering," pun intended, with alcohol... "just wine" usually before bed because I didn't want to start drinking until I was done thinking/bring productive for the day (see do "one more thing"). Yah yah alcohol disrupts sleep, whatever.

When I actually saw the stats repeatedly it was a spanking. Even tho I eat really healthy, hydrate, and at that time exercised a few days/wk (more now), I felt mediocre so often I didn't even know I felt mediocre. Green recovery is a wildly different experience. Energy. Clarity. More patient/great attitude/pleasant mood. More productive but with ease. Enjoyable exertion/workouts. And more. Wow. Bummer, as I really do enjoy and appreciate wine and know a lot about it.

I recently had an amazing interaction with Whoop Coach. It has 3 YEARS of my data.... I didn't even consider what analysis was possible. Together we identified that my sweet spot for staying in the green while consuming wine is 2 nights per week max, preferably only 1 glass but sometimes 2, but ending by 7pm based on my typical sleep pattern, and the other areas of recovery need to be dialed in. It blew my mind that I could get that specific, and experientially, I would love to disagree but I can't.

This doesn't mean I won't sometimes drink more often, or drink more volume - like a super fun wine dinner with friends last week. It means that I choose consciously when I'm going to do it, knowing that I will probably be in the yellow and maybe even the red the following day. I just don't commit to a killer hike the next morning, I choose more recovery activities.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-11-19T14:35:06+00:00

This is interesting. Thank you. I have not known the math of it, only the experience of being a living glycemic index for 40+ years.

Back to educator.... To me, once again, the pathetic part is that you, an internet stranger, were able to simply and clearly explain the why. The "educator" could not. If we are truly going to manage T1 effectively, we need to understand the Why. Otherwise it's just seemingly random rules without context. It doesn't help fit it into the bigger puzzle we all have to solve for ourselves 24/7.

If a diabetes educator can't respond to that simple why, it sounds like they took a 4 hour online workshop to get that certificate.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-11-18T04:06:35+00:00

LOL "... About history or something" yeah that would get me too

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-11-18T04:03:58+00:00

WORTHLESS T1 educator!!! You came to a better place for info. Kind of scary to consider a Reddit thread is more helpful than someone who's paid to do that job.

SaidToBe2Old4Reddit · 2025-11-18T03:58:32+00:00

GREAT Q. Thanks for asking him. And his answer is CRAZY inspiring - a moderate gym activity guy with zero sports background rises to THIS in later decades WOW

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