I've had my Whoop band for about 5 months so I thought I would give a review. First, I'm a mid-late 20s. I've been back into fitness pretty heavily for about 3 years after slacking off in college. Anywho, for my review:

Pros:
1. Battery Life: The battery lasts about 5 days and can be charged without taking off the band. You charge the charger with a mini USB and slide it over the band while you are still wearing it. This is an awesome feature as the band is designed to collect data 24/7

2. Strain Calculation: Whoop measures your strain which is essentially your fitness level. I can run a mile and someone out of shape can run a mile and I will register a significantly lower strain, and as I get in better shape my strain will show that. Also, it takes in to account your entire day. Stressful days at work I can see a noticeably higher strain than normal. Same with sickness. I had a little cold this week and saw my body was working to heal itself despite me not moving around as much.

3. Recovery Score: The band tracks your sleep and and activity and gives you a recovery score 0-100 when you wake up in the morning. After 5 months I usually know about where I will be when I wake up. This is awesome for knowing when you can really hit your workouts hard or can give you feedback on why you may have had a bit of a lethargic workout (from bad sleep, stress, etc)

4. Desktop App: Pretty all encompassing.

5. Monthly and Yearly Assessments: I get a PDF of monthly and yearly data aggregated in one place that compares that month to my previous months averages and other users by demographic (age, sex, ect.)

Cons:
1. Lately when I go from one sleep cycle into my next one (this usually happens about three times a night) the band registers that as me fully waking up and I have to manually change my wake up time to accurately reflect my total sleep. For whatever reason that has only started in the last month or so

2. The Bands: The bands are all a nylon type material. Even the one they say is designed for water I dont feel is that great. It stays wet and cant be wiped off dry with a rag very easily. I wish they would make a rubber band similar to the apple watch bands that you could just take a rag to if it got wet.

3. The Android App: The android app is far inferior to the Iphone App. They are still a start up and Android is an open ecosystem so I get it, but it still kind of sucks that you pay the same amount as Iphone users for an inferior product.

4. The desktop app doesn't download into an excel or csv format. It shows trends and averages, but when you are looking at a month average three days off your baseline can really affect that. I would like a download feature where I could filter my data different ways to get true data without outliers.

5. It can be kind of expensive: I bought a year membership on Black Friday for $18 a month, which I dont think is bad. However, month to month membership is $30/month and you have to sign up for six months I believe (there are a ton of promo codes to get 1st month free). Again, not terrible if you are pretty serious about health, but it my price out some people on the fringe.

In my opinion, this thing is awesome. If you are a data person it hits most of marks and gives you ton of info. A few parting notes: You will cut down on alcohol when you get the feedback of how bad it is for you. I pretty much don't sleep when I drink as little as 4 beers. It will change your sleep habits. The biggest thing I have noticed is sleep consistency is key. If I got to bed and wake up at the same time I sleep awesome. If I am more erratic in my bedtime my sleep quality clearly suffers.

I hope this review helps, and it is not all encompassing so I am happy to answer any questions anyone may have.

PS: I have no affiliation with Whoop I just think it is a great product that is pretty unique at this point.

Edit: Looks like my picture kind of sucks, sorry about that.

This post was edited on 2/9/20 at 9:30 pm