2024 the best fitness band tracker review


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UNLOCK YOURSELF WITH WHOOP

Optimize your health, fitness, and life with the world’s most advanced wearable.

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TRACKS EVERYTHING

Track your sleep, strain, stress, recovery, and more – on a high-powered device you’ll forget you’re even wearing.

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INFINITE INSIGHTS

Get the data and insights you need to unlock your full potential — all with one less screen.

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140+ HABITS TO TRACK

Find the habits that work for you and build your best routine with the world’s most advanced wearable.

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NEVER ON A CHARGER

With a waterproof, wireless battery pack, charge your WHOOP without ever removing it — so you don’t miss a single second of data.

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We’re revolutionizing the way that people understand their bodies. WHOOP provides unprecedented visibility into the relationship between physiology and performance, helping people reach their highest potential physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Who founded WHOOP?

Our founder, Will Ahmed, was a collegiate athlete who wanted to know how training was impacting his body. 
After reading 500 medical papers, the research revealed that monitoring key metrics 24/7 did more than just optimize training— it could help you feel better, perform better, and live better.

What makes WHOOP different?

WHOOP only measures the metrics scientifically proven to make a significant impact on your physical and mental health. WHOOP delivers over 99% heart rate and HRV tracking accuracy and gold-standard sleep tracking.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS INCLUDED: Purchase includes an initial 12-month WHOOP membership, 4.0 hardware, Onyx SuperKnit band, and wearable, waterproof* battery pack. THIS IS FOR FIRST TIME WHOOP MEMBERS.
CONTINUOUS MONITORING: WHOOP is a unique wearable fitness device that offers continuous monitoring of physiological data, including heart rate, respiratory rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature, blood oxygen levels, daily activity and sleep so users can better understand their overall health and wellness status and track their progress over time.
PERSONALIZED FOR YOUR GOALS: WHOOP is insight-driven, providing users with clear next steps and a science-backed approach so they can understand and improve their overall health and optimize performance. Track and log your daily behaviors like activity, diet, alcohol consumption, stress levels, caffeine intake and more with the WHOOP Journal. WHOOP then calculates which behaviors help or hurt your sleep and recovery most, making it easier to stick with healthy habits.
ON THE GO CHARGING: Get continuous data for days on a single charge with our waterproof* battery pack that enables you to charge on the go while you wear it.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: WHOOP offers a supportive community of users, including professional athletes and fitness enthusiasts, who share their experiences and insights. This community provides users with inspiration and encouragement as they work to achieve their fitness and wellness goals. Additionally, WHOOP's community provides users with access to expert resources and guidance to help them optimize their health and wellness.
Reviewer: Hobo Bill
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good info
Review: It works. It's waterproof. The information provided drives a desire to improve that I would not otherwise have. Basically, it is motivational, and the result is feeling better and clearer-headed. I have lost 6 pounds in a week, which might be too much, except my BMI is down from 29 to 27, and I have a ways to go. I'm just turning 75, so there's plenty to work on for a while.

Reviewer: Dan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ton, tons of information
Review: I was looking for something to track my sleep. There’s 1 million gimmicks out there with devices like under your mattress or using the Apple Watch or what not. A lot of them are dubious in their accuracy. I spent a lot of time looking into various methodologies and devices to find one that is legitimate. I think this is the one. It is a little expensive after the first year with the monthly bill but there’s a real accurate set of data given about you every minute of every day. It does a better job than several other devices that I’ve tried in the past and it feels more accurate based on how I’m doing. the most interesting thing is that it does encourage me to be more active as well. I did come into this looking only for a sleep tracker, but because of all the other data that is collected it encouraged me to get more active. All in all, I do think this had had a positive impact on my welfare and well-being. I’ll probably continue to subscribe even after the free year of service ends. Recommended if you’re interested in having in-depth and accurate knowledge about what your body is doing.

Reviewer: JMA
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not Close to good.
Review: **update 10/19 deducting yet another star. The device is basically worthless. Sad because it’s a good idea and is expensive. Did a 3 mile walk this morning to warm up. I’m 190# man. Walking a flat mile even at a somewhat leisurely pace costs my body 110-125Kcal. Wearing the whoop and my Apple Watch. Watch records 350 kcal burned. The whoop…123. Both set to “walking” worn on opposite wrists. 123 vs 350. The device is absolute garbage. Avoid it.** update 9/12. Deducting another starI really wanted to love this device and maybe mine is just a lemon. The readings, specifically heart rate which is one of the only things I am really truly interested in are so far from accurate that the device is almost worthless. This is disappointing because the device is both expensive and has an expensive subscription associated with it. I did a hard workout again wearing both my Apple Watch and my WHOOP. Was 30 minute EMOM. Alternating rounds of 10 double unders And 15 Russian kettlebell swings at 80#. So at least for me a metabolically demanding workout. During the double unders Apple Watch has my heart rate pegged between 165 and 175 Which makes sense based on the activity and how I feel (like I’m sprinting). The average for the whole Apple device was just under 150 BPM. Conversely, the whoop worn on my other wrist Shows my heart rate during the double-unders at between 96 and 120 (Which again is moronic) And my heart rate for the overall workout at 127. Only after I started my cool down and my heart rate dropped did the Apple Watch and the WHOOP come into line. I wonder if the WHOOP is just too imprecise as a piece of hardware so when your heart rate is extremely fast it’s missing beats, I’m just theorizing but it’s disappointing in any event. The AI WHOOP support is also completely worthless. canned responses and useless troubleshooting pages. I don’t know what device to recommend, but if you’re serious about your data, this ain’t it**update 8/25.I wore my my Apple Watch Ultra and Whoop at the same time today (albeit Whoop on right arm Apple Watch on left) as discussed in the main review below. I set both devices to “functional strength” and then went about my work out. Main part of the work out was 30 minutes. During that time. The whoop registered 241 cals burned and an avg heart rate of 119. The Apple registered 327 cals burned and an average heart rate of 129. I also noticed that during certain periods of the session, the Apple registered my heart rate at 145 bpm and the Whoop 107. I’ve been an athlete my whole life I know what 107 feels like, and I know what 145 feels like. I also at that point timed my pulse and got 140. Not sure if the whoop reflects a high degree of latency (claims it doesn’t) but that reading is way way off. Could also account for the meaningful deviation in calories. I pinged the whoop chat bot to ask. It was useless. Offered a lot of semi science mumbo jumbo about strain calculations. I’m deducting another star.I work out daily. Have for the last decade and a half. When I was younger it was conditioning for various combat sports. Now that I’m in my 40s it’s conditioning for the combat sport that is life. I still get after it pretty hard every day, and in the last few years have become interested in tracking biometrics. It started with various Fitbit devices, which were super limited, moving up to the pretty good Garmin instinct solar, to The OK Apple Watch Ultra (you can find my review on here somewhere) And now the Whoop. The reason I wanted to move away from the Apple Watch is threefold (although candidly the device is deeply flawed in general). 1) It’s far too busy, too much going on, too many notifications too much buzzing 2) The battery life sucks (2.5 days max) and 3) I really like watches, actual watches, aesthetically I think the Apple Watch Ultra is just awful. The WHOOP checks all the boxes. It has no screen or buttons, it does not buzz. It is extremely minimalist. It is very lightweight And comfortable. Battery life is about a week, However, in a bit of pretty ingenious engineering, you don’t take it off to charge it. You charge a small battery pack That Whoop wears like a backpack on your wrist. So every few days I just slap that on after my workout the Whoop charges fully in a manner of minutes and we go about our day. The Whoop interface is ok. Its fine. I think there’s a lot of data in there and I’m just getting used to accessing it. I like that it’s sleep and recovery focused. Every day I get a grade for my sleep quality (usually not great) And a related grade level of “recovery” from yesterday. I don’t pretend to know the science behind the recovery statistics, however directionally they are in line with the way my body feels in the morning and throughout the day. The major flaw in the WHOOP design that I have encountered so far in its “strain” calculations. Once you wear the device for a few days It starts to make customize recommendations for how hard you should push yourself physically given your recovery level. That’s fine, Although I tend to just move through my schedule of splits and conditioning irrespective of what the Whoop says. What I have observed though, and it annoys me, is that the calorie calculations are way off relative to every other device I’ve ever used. For a given activity I think they’re probably 20 to 30% low relative to the Apple and 40% low relative to the Garmin. They’re also internally contradictory. Here is an example: today was a conditioning day. I did a pretty hard workout which consisted of timed sets of pull-ups, push-ups, and jump squats. It’s a 30 minute timer. You do seven pull-ups 15 push-ups and 20 squats per minute and then rest the next minute, etc. So you wind up doing the high volume of movements. And your heart rate is quite elevated. My Apple Watch records this session at a bit over 400 calories. My WHOOP records it at 258 calories. I’m not sure which is right, But I will say that the WHOOP has a “strain” score, which is roughly a measure of how hard your body is working during the exercise. Before the exercise “processed” my score 8.2, with a heart rate averaging in the 130s with peaks in the low 160s. When I finish the exercise and added in the movements as prompted by the WHOOP It recalculates the strain score to 16.8. Reflecting the work rate associated with the movements I was doing. So the strain increased to almost double to accommodate the amount of work done during the session. Why did the amount of calories calculated by the WHOOP not increase? Exertion requires thermodynamic energy; my strain went up because I was doing more work, work = energy output= calories. So that is a bit bit silly. Overall I’m still pretty happy and the actual numbers don’t matter, although little sloppy nits like this bother me. Maybe they’ll work it out in a future software release.

Reviewer: Christian Sumphere
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best wearable I’ve owned.
Review: Readings are close to accurate and it’s way more durable than other wearables I’ve owned. I do wish the battery lasted a bit longer.

Reviewer: Miranda Kavanaugh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It’s great!
Review: For me it’s pretty great. I’m focusing more on my fitness and the Apple Watch doesn’t even compare. My band charged fast and last a lot longer than my watch did. It tracks a lot more especially with sleep. It does have a 12 months subscription and I like that because it really allows me to try it out. You can extend your membership whenever you want and I like that you can pay yearly. I know the reviews are mixed but I’m glad I bought this!

Reviewer: Mohamad Hussein
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Seems To Work
Review: This is the first time I’ve ever had a smart device on my body. It seems to be pretty accurate as far as sleep and recovery goes. I wish it counted steps and I wish the app was a bit smarter when it comes to the activity I’m performing. Also, the charger is totally absurd. I took an international trip and forgot the charger. Didn’t have it for a week. It should be a cord.

Reviewer: Silvanna
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Must have for physically active people
Review: Set up was just a little bit puzzling (to me at least) but once we got it, everything was perfect. It’s part of my life now.

Reviewer: DSR
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Fácil de hacer set-up y de usar , donde en 7 días ya se tiene un patron muy claro de tu calidad de sueño, necesidad de recuperación. Adicionalmente tiene rutinas de ejercicios donde te sugiere los aparatos, las repeticiones y su secuencia.Gran dispositivo que seguiré usando.

Reviewer: Glenn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I love this product so far but at $40 a month it be just cheaper to buy a new one every year than it would be to Renew your service agreement.

Reviewer: Antonio Marañón
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Estupenda herramienta aunque daba problemas al tener que pagar al extranjero la suscripción. Si os da el mismo problema revisar que la tarjeta no tenga medidas de seguridad mayores a las de EEUU.

Reviewer: Luca1679
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ottimo bracciale per rilevare e monitorare tutti i parametri come il sonno, lo sforzo e il recupero. Unico limite secondo me è che non ha uno schermo per cui bisogna sempre guardare l'applicazione sul telefono, però essendo molto professionale capisco la scelta e mi lascia comunque soddisfatto.

Reviewer: Fabian
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Die Messwerte sind sehr genau und die Tipps von der App sind unbezahlbar.Habe das Band jetzt seit 2 Monaten und bin sehr zufrieden.Tragekomfort, Messwerte und kein störendes Display, dass mich im Büro ablenkt.Das wirklich Einzige was mich daran stört ist das Stoffband was nach dem Duschen oder Schwimmen noch relativ lange nass ist. Aber selbst dafür gibt es mittlerweile Kautschuk Bänder auf der Whoop Website.

Customers say

Customers like the information quality of the product. They mention it's helpful for them to know their goals and how their recovery needs are being met. They also appreciate the comfort and quality. However, some customers have reported issues with the battery life and charging ability. Opinions are mixed on sleep tracking, value for money, and ease of use.

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