Biceps band option for Strength Trainer

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I’m wondering why, for the Strength Trainer, I can only choose between my left and right wrist. Why isn’t there an option to select wearing the WHOOP on the biceps? As far as I know, heart rate measurements are more accurate when wearing it on the biceps.

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Hey @Turiyaaa
When Strength Trainer was built the algorithms were only optimized for the wrist location. The way measurement works with the hardware, moving to the bicep or other Whoop body locations requires in depth validation of algorithm adjustments to make sure it is accurate enough for release. It is something that is on our list of features to tackle as we continue to work on strength trainer.

You are correct about HR! For certain high motion activities the bicep can be a more accurate signal. Unfortunately the way Strength Trainer vs. HR are measures are very different and the same benefit does not apply.

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Hi,

I wonder if this is the problem with yesterday’s strength training where I used my bicep band. 40 minutes with pretty intense training. I tracked all reps and weights, stop and finish for each exercise, from the app.

However I got 5.4 in strain which is very low. I feel it should be more about 10.

So, should we then use bicep or wrist band when using strength trainer? I have been using bicep band due to accuracy.

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I basically had the same length and intensity workout today where I had Whoop on my wrist. I got 11 in strain vs 5.4 when I had it on my biceps. Using strength trainer program.

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The bicep band will give you more accurate heart rate. If you are using the start/stop set tracking feature of strength trainer it will not work with the bicep band so use the wrist position. If you are just logging your exercises and linking to a strength activity after it won’t matter which method you use.

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Agree with this - we should be able to use the Bicep band with strength workouts.

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100% we agree. We would love to have as many whoop body locations as possible and bicep would be the next one logically. As of right now there is no timeline for that addition unfortunately.

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I just asked the Whoop coach (Beta 5.0) and it clearly says that I can use the biceps band for strength trainer.