Over the past few years, tech companies have increasingly been flexing their muscles and showing off innovations that can help people eat better, sleep more soundly, and work out smarter. What differentiates the WHOOP from just about every other fitness tracker is that it focuses specifically on fitness output and recovery. The always-on wristbands they just look like a fabric watch bands, BTW measure heart rate, heart rate variability HRV , and sleep. This is different than your heart rate, which measure beats per minute versus HRV which tells you the variation between the beats. And he was right, I felt fine when I fitnessed, but was I recovering? Eh, hard to know. Like oh, you want to know how stressed I am? You want to know how if I fell asleep with a book in my hands? Truthfully, it was stunning how closely the data matched what I felt. When I felt crappy, it told me my recovery was crappy.
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The Whoop 3. Tracking your health and fitness is pretty useless if you don't use the info to actually learn something or change your habits for the better. And sometimes, that means knowing when you need to stop and rest. Which is why I was curious to try the Whoop Strap 3. But what makes the Whoop Strap 3. That's in part because the Whoop Strap 3. It uses your HRV, average resting heart rate and sleep patterns to tell you when to push yourself through a tough workout and when to take a rest day and recover. Whoop is designed specifically to help you improve your exercise performance, recover better, get more sleep and feel empowered about your health and fitness habits.
Sure, they'll probably tell you that their wearable can show them how many steps they've taken over a given day, monitor their heart rate, or track their activities. You'll stump them with the next question, though: Why? Wearable companies don't always make it clear for users, especially casual ones, what they can actually do with the data they collect—which is why the estimated abandonment rate for wearables was around 30 percent at one point a few years back. High level users and serious athletes can do a little more with their data, but without professional help, the question still remains. Whoop, a brand that has put arguably the highest level of wearable tech smarts on the mass consumer market, has continually made it easier to answer that 'why' question. The company's wrist strap is designed only to inform its wearer how close they are to peak performance, and how much rest and recovery is needed to get them there. There are no smart notifications or display; Whoop is only concerned about crunching the data. That has made the strap a tough sell to all but the most dedicated athletes training to achieve specific goals—until now. With the 3.
