WHOOP Band 4.0 | Worth it for Non-Athlete?

Hope you find this helpful! Be sure to grab the sleep optimization PDF in the description. If you have an experience with WHOOP or other trackers, would love to hear about it below. Thanks for watching! - Lucas @ YOGABODY

I've only been wearing my whoop for a month, and its drastically helped me better understand the things interfering with my sleep and recovery. I don't use it for workout tracking at all. But through its suggestions, I consume all my calories before dark, I spend time in the sunlight every morning, blue light filters on everything, dim all my homes lights at sundown, and I just picked up some bluelight filtering glasses for those times I have to go out after dark. Just these things took me from red in sleep and recovery to green on most nights. And I feel significantly better during the day. This is the best piece of technology I've ever bought, and I love it.

Great video, and thanks for including me in this Lucas! Always a pleasure 😊

This device has really help me with my sleep and stress levels. The lack of sleep was really affecting my stress levels and my mindset

Been using Whoop for 10 months now and found it very helpful. I keen to push more on my training days and not be lazy like I sometimes used to be. I also like all the data it tracks, as it helps me with my habits and routines. All in all, it works for me, however, it's not for everyone, which is fine.

Brilliant honest view, thank you.

Wow, thanks for the explanation about HRV…it really helped me understand the significance. I just upgraded to the Whoop 4.0, loved your insights. You def seem like an athlete though!

Very honest review thank you

Excellent honest review. Since making your video they have introcued a strength trainer feature which will help track muscular load and include that towards your strain for more of an accurate/overall picture. Really useful for people who do strength training.

Thanks for this great review. I’ve been thinking of getting a Whoop device for a while now. I’m a man in my mid 50’s. Like you found, I know my current sleep amount of time and quality is terrible. Here in Scotland I can buy a whoop membership for a year up front with a discount for around the equivalent of $290, so about $24 a month. On a separate note, I’m also looking at your yoga videos as I think it could help my golf and general flexibility and aches, pains and niggles. Thanks for everything.

I've been very pleased with Whoop's HRV metric. I wear a Fitbit, and it shows my HRV as very low, and varies very little from day to day. The Whoop shows it considerably higher and with considerably more variation day to day. It has also shown a slow but continuous improvement over the past 8 months, which helps motivate me to keep the cardio going. (The improvement is not really detectable on the Fitbit, so I wouldn't have realized I was still improving if not for the Whoop. And I believe Whoop's heart rate data is more accurate.)

Very helpful video. Thanks!

I have myalgic encephalomyelitis so just walking to the shop is a workout for me! But… having had Whoop 4.0 data for the past two months has massively helped me to “pace” when life makes that possible and reduces my post-exertion malaise or “crashes”, so even though I’m someone who could never be considered athletic, the Whoop has helped me manage my condition so much better than I could have done without it. Importantly, it’s very comfortable to wear - I haven’t been able to wear jewellery for years now, as it wears me down.

Thank you for sharing 🙏❤️

Thanks. Your honest review is also very systematic, informative and help me understand better about what kind of wearable I really need. 👏👏👏👍👍👍

Gonna wear it cause it looks cool

Great review! I bought the Whoop before seeing this review, but I'm glad I did. Like you, the accountability is one of the key benefits for me. I like that I can monitor the statistics, but also track my habits and set goals for different activities and habits I want to keep or avoid throughout the week. The price is high, BUT it is now HSA eligible, so I was able to pay for it with my Health Savings Account.

As someone who is overweight and have really bad sleeping habits as well as need to cut down drinking. I want a whoop so bad to hold me accountable and make me make smarter decisions. I might buy a year long membership from them and just bite the bullet pay a whole one year sum and stick to it. I think one year on whoop would probably work wonders for me. I already can exercise and eat better and have been but I want something that’ll show me hey you need to get up off your butt and move around!

I have really come to like my whoop strap. I saw a noticeable improvement during the science of stretching coach training. It was my first foray out of weightlifting in a while and whoop definitely demonstrated cardio improvement. Saying this to agree with two of your points: 1. Whoop does better with cardio than weight training (started with whoop 3.0 and then 4.0 which is about 3.5 years of use) and 2. I saw improvement with stretch training which I will equate to your comments on yoga.

My understanding is that only a chest strap measures HRV accurately. The Oura ring second.