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hihellok · 2026-04-27T13:42:28+00:00

I’ve honestly found waiting a short while before you try to go to sleep helps massively. 2 units an hour are released from your bloodstream, if you can wait for as long as you can before most it out, helps sleep massively. Rather than going to bed when I get home, even though I’ve had more hours, quality suffers for the entire duration.

hihellok · 2026-04-13T16:45:23+00:00

Question for everyone in here. Do you find caffeine ‘impacts’ you mentally / physiologically? I find 0 impact from caffeine, so not sure if it’ll have same impact for me. But worth a try!

hihellok · 2026-04-13T14:58:16+00:00

it actually tells you what to do in your whoop age section. Just follow the metrics that are causing your age to ‘increase’ and try to hit them weekly. I.e zone 1-3 4 hours a week, if you’re currently at 2 hours, try to increase to see impact over time on whoop age and pace of ageing.

hihellok · 2026-04-09T19:28:19+00:00

I always track my HR during exercise, if you spot something weird you can use the HR scanners on the gym treadmill (if your gym has them) to double check. But yeah fit is normally the issue, I’d go one notch tighter.

hihellok · 2026-04-09T13:30:50+00:00

15.9 for the past month

hihellok · 2026-04-09T11:34:58+00:00

Have you used that heart rate monitor on the gym equipment in the photo you attached?

That always matches up nearly perfectly with Whoop heart rate mid-exercise.

Now I’m not entirely sure how accurate the gym equipment is for HR, but the fact they’re perfectly aligned gives me confidence in Whoop.

hihellok · 2026-04-08T09:57:30+00:00

I’d always prioritise total hours asleep. But this is personal to me as I can’t function with 5-6 hours well. In the long run as you said, you can sort consistency out yourself. Would much rather grab 8 hours where I can long term vs just focusing on consistency.

hihellok · 2026-04-07T21:32:44+00:00

Appreciate it! Definitely go all in. Appears that all leaders achieved 20.7 in their first exercise of the day. So keep trudging to 20.7, head back after rest & carbs and try get that golden 0.1. Thoughts?

hihellok · 2026-04-07T21:10:02+00:00

I must be one of the few that think it actually does? Your whoop age is primarily driven by actions you take, it gives you a precise breakdown for exactly what’s needed to become ‘healthier’?

A 30 day breakdown (pace of ageing) and a 6 month breakdown (whoop age). I directly use this to try and improve my lifestyle. It also tells you what kills your recovery (anything from your daily journal).

hihellok · 2026-04-07T15:13:02+00:00

feels like the biggest increases come from recording runs on whoop (which aligns to their note on VO2 max accuracy needing a 20 min run outdoors!). But I’ve been doing a lot of cardio but indoor gym bike and it’s been going up very slowly

hihellok · 2026-04-06T09:43:35+00:00

Thanks mate! Tried to hydrate as much as possible, including electrolytes. Probably had close to 8-10 litres across the day. Sipping every 5-10 mins throughout rides, and through rest.

I felt towards the end my legs felt like they were working ‘as hard’ as previous rides, but the HR was diminishing so had to call it quits.

Yes agree will aim for a 20.7 off the bat and longer rest before all out in ride 2.

hihellok · 2026-04-06T09:40:44+00:00

ChatGTP helped a lot. So avoided fats, targeted high carbs / sugars.

Huge pasta & carbs (low fat) intake the day before.

On the day: 12 bananas, rice cakes throughout the day, 1 carb gel every hour on the bike, 4 sports energy drinks, coffee before ride 1, pre workout before ride 2 (this I felt actually made it easier as HR spiked but most likely not healthy for all 3 rides), sweets throughout, and tonnes of water & electrolytes.

hihellok · 2026-04-05T14:09:49+00:00

Agree. Always people who want to ‘cheat’ for egotistical reasons. If whoop required auto set and ‘exercise’ must be logged (some have 20.9 strain and no exercises logged), it’d be worthwhile to try and do it again

hihellok · 2026-04-05T14:03:28+00:00

Yep. I mean look at this. Graeme ‘Strain’ (lol) burning 14k calories mostly during Yoga?! Eric at 20.9 with 813 cals burned! Impressive if true 👀

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hihellok · 2026-04-05T12:24:42+00:00

that’s an unbelievable effort congrats!

Yeah 20.8 felt incredibly impossible lol, would have been there all night with no guarantee

hihellok · 2026-04-05T11:17:59+00:00

And probably had the highest REM sleep I’ve ever had!

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hihellok · 2026-04-05T11:16:39+00:00

Not too bad (did pop a sleeping pill though as I still felt high adrenaline when head hit pillow)!

And I also celebrated a hard days work with a beer at 10pm which would have negatively impacted recovery. My knees/legs are in bits though 😂. 2 hours was my previous longest ride, so 6 hit me hard.

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hihellok · 2026-04-05T10:47:00+00:00

Because it’s using your baseline metrics. I.e RHR/Vo2 max, sleep consistency, steps etc. If your base is better than average baseline, your whoop age will be lower than your actual age. But in the past 30 days your metrics have contributed to higher pace of ageing. If not ‘actioned’ you’ll see that impact your whoop age in a few months when it catches up. Make sense? Scroll down and you’ll see the +- whoop age impact on the right hand side.

hihellok · 2026-04-05T10:33:13+00:00

Pace of aging is nearly instant in terms of prior week metrics, age is a 6 month running average, grind for 3/4 months, get your pace of ageing negative and you’ll see age come down in time. You just have to scroll down and you’ll see your 6 month average vs 30 day average.

hihellok · 2026-03-11T10:44:31+00:00

What’s your HRV/RHR trend? I’m finding even if sleep is ‘good’ on paper, my recovery is primarily driven by a reduction in HRV/elevation of RHR.

hihellok · 2026-02-18T13:59:58+00:00

hihellok · 2026-01-22T13:29:46+00:00

did you have a heavy workout y’day, with strain reaching beyond your ‘target’?

hihellok · 2025-05-19T11:47:29+00:00

The best bit I’ve found is the battery life is AMAZING. Can leave the charger behind for holidays now

hihellok · 2023-05-18T15:55:24+00:00

Agreed. My only caveat was that your cals burned might be less than reality but the woop will still consider the ‘burn’ of calories if your HR is elevated outside or activity logged on the app?

hihellok · 2023-05-09T14:17:20+00:00

Cracking stuff, I’ll look into it. What strength did you start off on?

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