Giving your body that much-needed rest is so important when you workout regularly. If you don’t rest your body and keep training when you are sick or overtired you can actually do a lot more damage. How does one know how much rest one needs? This is where the WHOOP fitness band comes in.
This fitness band tells you how much sleep you have had, how you work out, and how your heart rate rises when you are stressed. It learns about your body, your daily habits, and workouts and it will give you a grade based on these results.
Measures Your Workout Heart Pressure
WHOOP measures your heart pressure during your exercises; you will be asked to rate your own performance from weak to peak. At the end of each day the band sends you a day strain score, combining all your activities over that specific 24 hours.
The Advised Amount of Sleep
The advised amount of sleep you are meant to get each night is between 7-8 hours. Sleep helps you to recover from your hard workouts and it makes you stronger. If you are Netflix and chilling on a regular basis and then waking up early to workout, you will end your week with a tired body and mind.
WHOOP reminds you to value your sleep. Each morning you will be asked to rate your sleep with questions about your caffeine or alcohol intake before you went to bed the night before and whether you share your bed. The answers from the survey and your heart rate data will give you your daily sleep performance number.
How You Handle Stress
The band also keeps track of how well you handle stress with a few questions. All of your answers go in to the system to teach you about your recovery. Over training and working late can have a lot of negative effects on your body and you and it will tell you to skip the gym to get much needed rest.
The band is free but you will have to commit to a six month subscription costing $30/month.