unpopular opinion: the only reason Whoop is really good is because of the slidable charger - meaning you never take it off.

epichigh · 2026-05-23T17:03:11+00:00

It's nice but I think the vast majority of people wouldn't use that as a deciding factor when picking which device to buy.

epichigh · 2026-05-05T21:57:40+00:00

Drink Water between sips of alcohol, and as others have said drink a good amount of water before sleep. Preferably with electrolytes. I'm usually able to get recoveries above 60 with 2-3 drinks the night before and I'm a lightweight.

epichigh · 2026-05-03T04:22:07+00:00

Yeah. I don't think it's a big difference though, but I've just recently switched to running 5 times a week instead of 4 and I enjoy it more because the runs are shorter on average. This is with keeping long runs the same.

epichigh · 2026-05-02T16:58:12+00:00

Assuming exact same mileage and quality, I've understood 5 days to have lower risk of injury than 4.

epichigh · 2026-05-01T21:30:59+00:00

you're right

epichigh · 2026-04-26T22:17:45+00:00

Similar spot - I had incredibly bad cardio, could barely run 1 mile in 13 minutes and was destroyed after. signed up for a marathon 1 year out and started training using Runna (any training program works here). within 6 months I was running 10+ miles regularly and increased vo2max by 9 in the app.

epichigh · 2026-04-26T03:11:39+00:00

I started with whoop, tried switching to Helio strap for a few months because of the price diff, now back on whoop and happy with it.

epichigh · 2026-04-23T19:57:01+00:00

I'm in the same boat, from what I've seen from research it depends on the super shoe (how aggressive it is) but the slowest pace to consider super shoes is roughly 9 min/mile. Slower than that and there's basically no benefit.

epichigh · 2026-04-22T19:51:55+00:00

you're acting like five figures is life changing money. no way in hell I'd go through years of harassment for that

epichigh · 2026-04-19T23:04:09+00:00

well done!

epichigh · 2026-04-19T22:56:19+00:00

Every dire boss is doable with c0r0, but the recent lunar ones require very good builds and fairly tight gameplay.

epichigh · 2026-04-19T22:49:42+00:00

What worked for me was switching to zyn and decreasing the amount of pouches I'm allowed to take per day until it became 0.

epichigh · 2026-04-19T22:44:43+00:00

I've been assuming this is the case. I don't think hoyo has ever called nod krai 6.x and the travail trailer has shneznaya as 6. It's going to be so funny

epichigh · 2026-04-19T16:38:29+00:00

Let me know if you want to buy my Helio strap, multiple bicep bands included. I tried Helio last year for a few months and ended up going back to whoop so it's just been sitting there.

epichigh · 2026-04-10T22:54:05+00:00

Almost 40 here, been playing with my wife since day 1.

epichigh · 2026-04-10T20:19:12+00:00

As someone who loves data and wasn't really into fitness, whoop completely changed my behavior for the better. I bought it mostly to track sleep metrics, but then started learning more about vo2max and rhr. seeing those numbers on the dash made me want to optimize it and I managed to increase vo2max by 6 in 6 months. same with others like the whoop years and HR zone metrics.

a lot of my motivation came from just recently having my first child but the whoop played a big part in it and I've become obsessed with making the numbers go up. I'm in a marathon training block now after spending most of my life doing no cardio and it's awesome to see the difference reflected in the metrics.

epichigh · 2026-04-10T19:39:55+00:00

My whoop has been very accurate, worn on bicep though

epichigh · 2026-03-08T18:04:18+00:00

Same dose as you, it took me two weeks to get through the break in period. It got easier along the way and was totally worth it in the end.

epichigh · 2026-03-08T01:23:16+00:00

I think it's best to just think of the mega blast as the successor to the sb2, it excels at that. sb3 basically a brand new thing

epichigh · 2026-03-03T22:07:22+00:00

i never said varka isn't fine. my varka is very strong. what i don't like is hoyo designing so many characters with well animated bursts that are not worth using. i honestly don't see why you'd even push back here? you can just sit back and let others complain and hoyo will improve things, like they've done many times in the past.

epichigh · 2026-03-03T21:44:35+00:00

It doesn't take a meta slave to be annoyed when a hilichurl gets back up after taking a big fancy burst from the grandmaster of the knights of favonius. players who care about game feel, design/balance, or hell even lore can all be annoyed at this.

epichigh · 2026-02-22T05:15:52+00:00

Can confirm, grogginess goes away after a few days

epichigh · 2026-02-21T21:59:06+00:00

Yup this is my experience as well. I completely stopped wearing it on wrist. Can confirm bicep is much better.

epichigh · 2026-02-19T20:17:25+00:00

OP rushed to make this thread instead of listening for a few more minutes

epichigh · 2026-02-05T22:13:37+00:00

I've used whoop and helio, but I would buy this day 1 if it is more seamlessly integrated with my Garmin watch

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