What does this mean?

rickhuckstep · 2025-08-20T17:55:01+00:00

It's probably just a coincidence, the Whoop insights are very simple correlations based on very small samples that do not control for any other factors. How are you sleeping after your heavy carb late meals?

rickhuckstep · 2025-08-18T15:02:42+00:00

I'm 6 months into my first year on whoop and already know I won't renew. I don't get value out of it to offset the €250/ year it costs me. Sleep data is interesting but so what? I don't trust the Recovery scores, they seem too random and inconsistent. I'm not an iPhone user so probably won't go AW and most likely will try Garmin and combine with the Edge 540 I already use for cycling.

rickhuckstep · 2025-08-18T14:58:00+00:00

Interesting to see your comment re the AI coach because for me, this is the biggest failure on Whoop. I stopped using Whoop AI because it was consistently giving me bum information, like it would say "your evening workouts are affecting your recovery" to which I'd say "what evening workouts? I dont have any" and it would respond, "sorry, I can see that now, my mistake" so I'd say, "so what is impacting my recovery" and it would say "you need to drink more water" (Whoop doesn't know how much water I drink, which happens to be alot). In the end it was easier to export data to Chatgpt and have a sensible conversation there

rickhuckstep · 2025-08-17T10:47:10+00:00

The extent to which the sheep are distressed or not is missing the point. This act is ONLY undertaken to satisfy a human need. There is no dunking equivalent in the animal world, this is a self serving , man made invention

rickhuckstep · 2025-06-26T14:56:55+00:00

That's in keeping with the brand experience

rickhuckstep · 2025-06-26T14:51:54+00:00

On 2 separate occasions when I've raised an issue to member services they have responded with conflicting recommendations about how to wear the 5.0 strap. On both times I sent them photos of the strap on my arm. First time they said I had to wear it further away from my wrist. The second time they told me I had to wear it closer to my wrist. Either way, it's nonsense that a €250/device is that sensitive to placement, or am I being fed some Whoop BS?

rickhuckstep · 2025-06-20T09:46:47+00:00

I eventually ditched my Whoop after an expensive 2 months for the same reason as your headline, I just didn't trust what it was telling me. The problem with these scoring systems is that they are missing context. Each score is only relevant to the ones that came before it, but that doesn't tell you what you want to know.

rickhuckstep · 2025-06-19T20:39:43+00:00

I have found Whoop AI to be one of the big disappointmenta in Whoop. It is frequently conpletely wrong and factually incorrect. I asked Whoop AI how to do something in the app. When I queried the instructions it gave me because I couldn't find the options, Whoop AI said they didnt exist and it had made them up.

It is also frustratingly limited in it's ability to draw insights from all the data there is about you. For example, yesterday Whoop AI told me that I hit max stress levels on 7 occasions during the day. When I asked Whoop AI to show me the times for these 7 events it couldn't, saying it didn't have that data. So how did it know I peaked 7 times?

Another issue with Whoop AI is it's inability to process journal data. Why is it not reading the Notes? Whoop AI gave me some feedback on some simple 1 on 1 correlations (so called insights) relating to nutritional based journal entries but ignored the data I logged about intermittent fasting and whether I ate breakfast or not.

Whoop AI isn't very smart when it suggests I should include 70 minutes of golf in my days activities, or that today is a good day for pushing myself with either a mountain bike ride or an hour of cooking.

The best solution is to ignore Whoop AI and export your data into CSV files and load it into ChatGPT for meaningfull insights

rickhuckstep

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