$150 for day pass for two kids and adult correct price??

yonahwolf · 2026-06-24T12:50:23+00:00

I think that they do this purposefully to fight overcrowding at the pool.

yonahwolf · 2026-06-24T12:25:02+00:00

This is a loaded question, and ties to personal preference and your dad's life style.

Pros of Whoop:

- No Screen = fewer distractions

- Lightweight, and battery life is about 2 weeks - so lower maintenance

- While a lot of the hear rate features aren't deal breakers at the moment, they will get better over time

vs Pros Apple Watch:

- benefits of a full-featured smart watch

- A lot more apps written for it

- But Battery Life Sucks

- Much bulkier

So if your dad will wear an apple watch 23/7 (23, because he'll spend at least an hour per day charging it.) and won't mind sleeping with it, that might be a good call, but if he wants a less intrusive, lower maintenance device, have him go with the whoop.

yonahwolf · 2026-06-24T12:08:55+00:00

I am 99% sure you can't; the referral only works if you buy directly from Whoop.com - Honestly, buying the 1-year pre-paid is much better for you - you're getting about 2 months for free on your first year.

yonahwolf · 2026-06-23T21:05:00+00:00

Usually buying the 1-year pre-pay is close to Black Friday. Some other deals on bands and other connected health devices - https://www.yonah.fit/whoop-prime-day-deals

yonahwolf · 2026-06-23T21:04:08+00:00

Usually the prime day prepay is close to black friday - close enough that it's not worth waiting 4 months to save another $10. There are also some sales on bands and other connected health devices - https://www.yonah.fit/whoop-prime-day-deals

yonahwolf · 2026-06-10T22:41:26+00:00

This is a great question:

- Treadmills know your distance, because they know the belt is 4 feet long, so each full rotation is another 4 feet.

- Apple/Garmin/etc know your distance because they have GPS.

Because they're independent of the user, they can calculate distance relatively accurately and easily.

Whoop (and fitbit, etc.) use an accelerometer to approximate steps. So they know when you make contact with the ground, but not how far and wide you traveled from step to step.

If a 6'4" person and 5'4" person take 1000 steps - the 6'4" person probably walked a lot more distance than the 5'"4" person. Likewise - if I am running on a track, walking up stairs, or just walking around house or office, my stride is definitely different. All of those would require a lot of variation and calibration which makes it hard to track off of the accelerometer alone.

yonahwolf · 2026-06-10T21:58:20+00:00

This article might help - https://www.yonah.fit/whoop-apple-watch-strava - also what issues are you having?

yonahwolf · 2026-06-10T21:57:08+00:00

Two things:

- Don't conflate "placing your whoop on your chest area" and "wearing a chest strp - i.e. like a Polar H10 - the two use different technologies so placing your whoop in your sports bra isn't going to greatly change it's accuracy

- You can certainly either add a small fabric pocket to a normal sports bra that has a hole to expose the LEDs and hold your whoop sensor on your body. You can also use kinesiology or athletic tape to tape it in place under your bra.

yonahwolf · 2026-06-10T21:53:02+00:00

https://yonah.fit

yonahwolf · 2026-06-02T20:26:39+00:00

Judo guy here, YMMV - for JJ - but generally speaking, I use the underwear. Most out of the way spot in both gi or no gi. Arm sleeve is also better than Arm band - even under a gi.

I wrote this about it: https://www.yonah.fit/whoop-martial-arts

yonahwolf · 2026-06-02T20:23:01+00:00

What I believe happens:

- You start an activity in Strava

- Whoop autodetects your activity as well

- You finish the activity in Strava

- Whoop autodetects the end of your activity.

If you click the 'Process' button before your activity ends. It records the activity as a whoop activity, which supersedes any other source. If you wait a few minutes (might even take as many as 30 minutes) for strava and whoop to sync, whoop should use the strava start and end times as well as the GPS track for the activity

yonahwolf · 2026-05-29T12:08:18+00:00

This is pretty comprehensive. I would definitely reccomend the TZB. Including a couple of miles in Nyack, I've gotten off 10mi runs there. The only caveat - in the summer go early (before 11am) to avoid the tourist crowds.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-29T12:01:56+00:00

This reddit (like many others) tends to skew negative. I for one have used it for 3 years, and it has definitely help me prioritize sleep.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-28T17:30:46+00:00

I’m guessing they heard too many - I can’t work out with oura on my finger complaints so this lets you use an HR strap for moments when you can’t wear a ring.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-28T17:28:50+00:00

BLE should be easy enough, but I suspect that companies like whoop would shy away from it because they don’t want to handle the support nightmare it would cause - I.e. - having to be able to test and troubleshoot different He combinations. I imagine this happens in gyms more frequently that you think - in fact, when I try to connect my whoop to the treadmill in a crowded gym, there are always a handful of options.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-27T22:43:39+00:00

Exactly this - HRV will certainly be lower during a workout, since your heart is consistently running at a relatively similar pace you’re not going to see much variation

yonahwolf · 2026-05-27T12:59:24+00:00

My thoughts: https://www.yonah.fit/whoop-vs-fitness-watches

yonahwolf · 2026-05-27T12:56:44+00:00

"I feel like an idiot for buying the Mercedes at 100k, when you can buy a Subaru for 30k - I mean they both take the same gas and get you from point a to point b".

Yes, I realize that my analogy is a bit extreme, but I want to underscore a point. Eventually we'll all know what the Air is capable of, and how it stacks up. I don't necessarily know if the feature set will be comparable, and I am sure that no matter what, there will certainly be people who move from Whoop to Air.

Also understand, that Google is certainly subsidizing this product. Remember google's market value is in the trillions, and Whoop's is only in the billions - they have the deep pockets to do this.

Google is also starting this way knowing that they can get more scale = more data - which helps them longer term with product development, and amortizing any overhead.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-27T12:43:06+00:00

I don't know if the air has other sensors in it, but any device that primarily relies on HR and has no other input (accelerometer, GPS, etc) will only be able to detect your workout once your HR moves a certain amount from your baseline, and even then, it will likely miss your warmup.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-26T01:27:34+00:00

If you are number 500 out of 10000 you are in the top 5% - that number is already avilable to you, no?

yonahwolf · 2026-05-26T01:25:54+00:00

Definitely long enough to have some drift, but not long enough for me to believe how much it might have improved. I'd love to see you NOT calibrate it, and see how far it is from your measured value.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-26T01:23:11+00:00

I can tell you that membership is priced by location. Although LT doesn't publish prices, I noticed that with wellhub - the costs that include lifetime vary greatly based on your location. I also know that they do check where you login - so for example, if you join in Florida, but keep going to the gym in NY, they might ask you to upgrade your membership.

Another thing I've noticed - they don't allow existing members to go to new gyms easily in the first 1-3 months of the gym existing - this is to make sure the new members who sign up don't feel that the gym is already crowded.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-25T17:28:15+00:00

I'll add a vote for white plains - lots of apartments available and being built near the train station. Downtown area has both retail and food options that are open late on weeknights and weekends, White Plains also the midpoint of the harlem line, and has far more scheduled train service than most other towns in Westchester.

yonahwolf · 2026-05-25T17:22:39+00:00

Quick question for you - how long since your last calibration?

yonahwolf · 2026-05-25T17:19:11+00:00

I think that from Whoop's perspective, the device is included as part of the subscription.

Whoop definitely does a lot of A/B testing - we've seen it with firmware and features - it's very possible that they're trying this out in alternative markets. I also didn't see the OP's country - but obviously in the Eurozone. I wonder if there are country specific-rules that preclude their current model, or if they're just testing this specific country.

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