I did both workouts with my Whoop 5.0 worn on my wrist with a SportFlex band. I’ll try my next few workouts with the bicep band and see if it makes a difference, but Whoop, please, I’m once again begging you to either let me pair an external HRM, or pull the recorded heart rate when importing an activity from Apple Health, since it’s likely to be more accurate than what Whoop records.
Well. I guess that settles it, the bicep band is the way to go, at least for cycling workouts. I’m gonna do some tests with some running workouts and see how the wrist band compares to the bicep band.
Whoop MG is definitely better on the bicep but I find other metrics seem off. My HRV is lower and the ECG/EKG doesn’t always work. I have moved back to my wrist because I do not want to keep changing bands. I have come to terms with the HR inaccuracies on the wrist making my strain and recovery somewhat iffy. I will not renew my subscription and might even discard completely. I just keep hoping things will be resolved.
My Garmin watch is close to my chest strap as is the cheap Amazfit Helio strap both on my wrist. So accurate wrist based devices are there just not Whoop MG.
It absolutely baffles me that Amazfit is significantly more accurate on the wrist than Whoop. HR accuracy is Whoop’s Achilles heal and I just don’t understand why they can’t get it right.
The heart rate averages out to roughly the same, but Whoop’s is all over the place. It had me going into zone 4 when I wasn’t, and had me below my actual heart rate in other parts.
Then, a treadmill run I did last night, wearing my Whoop on my bicep:
Maybe not an apples to apples comparison since one run was outdoors and the other on a treadmill, but the heart rate is spot on when wearing Whoop on the bicep (to my chagrin because I don’t like the bicep band).
I’m gonna leave it here, but hopefully this has been helpful: If you want accurate HR, the bicep band is almost certainly the way to go.
Thought I was crazy but wow the HR variability is so bad on the Whoop 5. During my lifts this gets extremely distracting not going above 110 bpm while I am physically gassed and panting audibly. I can’t time my lifts properly inevitably making my workout a struggle. I am two fingers from the wrist bone and my strap is on tight. I am a bit hairy, but all other fitness trackers I’ve used never had this issue. For a premium product I am shocked it’s this bad.
Switched to bicep band today and while my HR numbers seem much better and been doing the old fashion 15-sec self pulse check, my stress has now went thru the frickin roof…
Have you not read any of my posts? I wore on the bicep for a long time but whilst slightly better for cycling still crapped out every 3 or 4 rides. Reverted back to the wrist for BP and ECG/EKG which was problematic on the bicep.
Hey Woop, here is day-1 with a bicep band strain progression…please know that for this first pic my alarm goes off at 6:30, leave house by 7:15 and get to work around 7:45
Heck, I haven’t even been awake for an hour but already strain is almost 5.0 and look at how stressful that crap, shower, shave is…
Wore Whoop shorts today with whoop in the shorts. Structure 5 x 5 internal but…my warmup according to Whoop was Zone 5! Nope, definitely zone 1 or 2. This throws off my workout data, health span etc.
Same. I’ve been a user for many years, current “streak” starting in 2019. Whoop 5.0 has my average caloric burn at about 65% of the 4.0, 2100 a day vs 3200 a day. Runs will be relatively consistent but assault bike and stairclimber activity is vastly different. When comparing 5.0 to other heart rate devices on the same workout, the 5.0 will consistently be off by 35%. I’ve been dealing with whoop support for months, tried all their suggestions, their standard answer is to place it higher on your wrist or wear the band in a different location such as your bicep. Bought the bicep band and make sure the wristband is higher when wearing it, still did not work. I offered to go back to the 4.0 if I could get a refund. They would not allow it. After months of back and forth with support, they sent me a new 5.0. Same issues with the new one. As a long time user, this has been very frustrating.
