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Three Whoop Band Competitors Are Coming, but I Doubt They’ll Be Able to Compete With Whoop’s App
We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you love the idea of tracking your health and fitness with a screenless band but don’t want to pony up for a Whoop subscription, you’ll soon have more options. Maybe. Probably: Three different Whoop-likes have popped up in the past few weeks, but I’m still murky on the details…
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Whoop is reportedly replacing defective MG trackers
Users of Whoop’s fitness trackers have been reporting that their Whoop MG fitness trackers are turning unresponsive, in some cases within under an hour of setting them up. Now, the company is apparently replacing the trackers, in some cases before the users even ask, TechIssuesToday reports. Launched alongside the Whoop 5.0 earlier this month, the Whoop MG (which stands for…
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Whoop backpedals on its paid upgrade whoops
Whoop is in damage control mode. After debuting its Whoop 5.0 fitness tracker, users were angered to find it had reneged on a promise of free hardware upgrades. In a new Reddit post, the company now says users who have been members for over 12 months can get the Whoop 5.0 for free. Part of the outrage was prompted by…
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Whoop Can Now Estimate Your VO2 Max
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Whoop, the screenless watchband-like wearable that beat out Oura in my non-watch fitness tracker showdown, has just added a VO2 max feature to its app. Now, just like Garmin, Apple Watch, and others, it can put a number on your cardio fitness and tell you how it changes over time. …
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How Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, and Whoop Compare on Measuring HRV and Resting Heart Rate
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Heart rate variability (HRV) and resting heart rate (RHR) are the metrics that most wearables’ “recovery” numbers are based on. I wore five devices to bed for two weeks to see how their readings compared. Those devices were an Apple Watch Series 10, a Fitbit Charge 6, a Garmin Forerunner…
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