Whoop seems to penalize someone’s Whoop Age with a lower than 8k step count a day average, regardless of their overall zone 2-5 work hours or running. I run once or twice a week to keep bone mineral density high, and a cycle multiple hours a week. Right now my Zone 1-3 average is 9h a week, Zone 4-5 1h a week, but my step count is 9k (and going down), so soon I will loose Whoop age points here. This seems like an oversight. Anyone else notice this?
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Said the same thing many many months ago. Steps are a ridiculous measurement for fitness especially as Cyclists, Swimmers, Rowers and of course any wheel chair sports. 
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Steps are certainly important and valuable, assuming you are able-bodied… however, I agree that steps having so much more weight and impact over literally anything else remotely intensive, for lack of better words, is a severe oversight and leads to quite a discrepancy in what could be a more accurate representation of, and metric for measuring, overall health. I hope WHOOP will make changes, with this in mind, in the near future. @liv0
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I reported this to them in a Zoom meeting back in the June/July. They have not addressed it. My opinion is they have turned from Sports orientated to general well being device. I can see why they did it, being a niche device is less profitable. I have no problem with this decision and best of luck to them but all their commercials are top athletes showing off their devices. This is very misleading. I was personally drawn in by them sponsoring the Giro D’Italia. I feel like I was conned out $345. Whoop is now nothing more than a FitBit competitor.
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I don’t disagree with you on your point about steps being heavily weighted, however I do want to share where Whoop explains their reasoning for it in their white paper with Buck Institute.
That being said, I agree there is a gap between “substantial zone 1-5” usage, for example in cycling, vs the arbitrary weight placed on the number of “steps” in Healthspan, when, in fact I’d argue cycling is adding “steps” in the sense of putting one foot infront of the other. I’m curious to hear why they are important independent of one another? I hope Whoop has some input. Thx
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Exactly, and how easy wouldn’t it be to remove steps from the algorithm (or weight it less) for people who primarily (or exclusively) do non-step activities? Not to mention as you point out that this is a a major oversight for anyone who is in wheel-chair sports. It seems like Whoop could solve this easily.
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Update: this week my average step count for 1 month officially dropped below 8k (what can I do, its winter!) and this will start bringing my Whoop age up 
BUT my vo2 max is the highest its ever been, my z1-3 is 11h, my z4-5 is 1h… this is a major flaw on Whoop’s algorithm.
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