Weekly plan should not be all or nothing

It is extremely annoying that you cannot set a number of days target to the metrics counted in your weekly plan. For example if you set your daily step goal to 10,000 and one day you get 9,999 steps you fail your weekly plan. This is extremely demotivating.

All of the behaviours allow you to specify a target number of days such as avoid xyz for 4/7 days. I don’t see why we can’t do the same for metrics like sleep, steps and daily strain. These used to be based on a weekly average which was way better. Now if I have a bad Monday it just feels like there is no point focusing on the metric because I won’t “pass” for the week.

I understand having averages can also be negative because if you miss one day you may over compensate the next but that is why having a goal for the metric and the number of days you want to accomplish it would make much more sense.

Having an all or nothing approach is just such a poor user experience, very demoralizing, and any psychologist would agree is the antithesis of sustainable behaviour change. I’ve found myself either lowering my standards to a value I know I will hit no matter or just ignoring my plan all together. The weekly plan used to be my favourite feature as having one bad day motivated me to make sure I didn’t get too off track so I could still hit my weekly average.

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Hey raptorNation - thanks for the post and I apologize that this is putting a damper on your experience with the feature. This is good feedback.

Sharing this with our Product team internally right now - will follow up if they have any immediate actionable advice as to how to bridge the gap right now - otherwise, we will take this into account as we plan out continuous enhancements to Weekly Plans. Reading your description, it definitely sounds super intuitive to be able to set a target # of days for Metrics just like what exists for Behaviors - great idea.

Keep crushing your goals in the meantime and stay tuned - we’re constantly updating the app with optimizations.

-Ev

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FWIW I am a new Whoop user (on a free trial from a referral) and this limitation makes the weekly plan feature almost 100% useless. If you set the plan to target your rest day metrics, you’ll get 7/7 every week. And no other configuration is really possible.

It seems extra sad that the weekly planning feature used to be different and was updated to be this way.