Context: a 45 minute treadmill walk counted 684 steps because I was holding on.
- Steps are a Healthspan contributor, not just a vanity stat.
- When step counts are clearly under or over actual (e.g., treadmill readouts, known distances), they distort WHOOP Age and Pace of Aging.
- Members should be able to edit or override daily steps when they have better ground truth (treadmill, track distance, another validated device) — just like editing sleep durations.
- Without that, Healthspan can under‑credit real work and erode trust in the whole feature.
Not seeing my steps fluctuate upwards on workout days was a major frustration as I track them myself in a journal. Now that I know the count is faulty because my arms aren’t swinging (valid) I wish that I could update or add steps for an activity based on the correct count. I know it’s low weighted for pace of aging but it seems like an easy feature to add to update a faulty metric similarto sleep.