I’m new to Whoop.Had my band for just over a week.Prepaid for the year on Life/MG and I’m already having issues.I appreciate it will take time for it to calibrate to me specifically,but I ran 10k yesterday and Whoop recorded 95 calories burned.This was while I was using a bicep band.I have an Applewatch Ultra 2 and a Frontier X chest strap,both of which indicated calorie burn was around the 650 mark.Woke up this morning to find I apparently burned 704 calories whilst I was sleeping! The data seems wildly inaccurate.
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I’ve been saying this for a while. I’m 5 10” male and 158 pounds. Lean. I eat 2400 calories a day every day and I never lose nor gain weight except maybe 1/2 lb. It says I only burn 1700 calories a day. I would be in a 800 calorie deficit for two years of wearing it. There are all kinds of excuses they give but they can’t measure the calories. My Garmin always shows a burn of around 2500 calories an so does my Oura 4. Why can’t whoop get it? It is supposed to be the best fitness tracker. Hmmmm.
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Agreed. This is extremely frustrating. The calorie count is way off. I’m a 5’8 at 165lbs whose BMR should be approx 1400. I walk like 15k steps and it says my calories burnt was 1400. I eat about 2400 calories and don’t gain weight. For a device that specializes in fitness, it’s extremely inaccurate in the most important measure of output: calories burnt.
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So, I just started using the Whoop MG. I am wearing it on my right wrist and my Garmin Forerunner 745 XT on my left wrist. I am right handed. I will soon receive the bicep strap and will move the Whoop once received. Comparing readings from the two over my last 4 runs, the HR, Active Calories Burned (ACB), Max HR and Avg HR are all very tightly aligned. For instance, on this last run, the ACB only differs by 2 calories between the two devices, and the Max HR same. So, I think the Whoop MG is working accurately for me. Maybe those who are having issues need a firmware update? Mine loaded one a few days ago. Where I notice the biggest difference is my Sleep Number bed HRV vs the Whoop HRV. I suspect the Whoop HRV is a better number given the differences in calculation and sensors (Whoop - just me vs SN Bed- me, my wife, and my dog).
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Yes. I’ve noticed a drop in the calories between the 4 and the 5 models. I’ve messaged with a bot until it said it would pass it on to the whoop team to get back to me but no one did - which was about a month or so ago.
There was study done showing we don’t burn as much as we think and even a fast pace walk at 3 miles probably didn’t burn 250 calories.