Learning my body more with my Whoop

It was a tough day and night battling this stomach bug. It was a fitting end to the hectic quarter. And I think most of us on the team are happy for a fresh start in April.

This is the first time I’ve been badly ill since getting my Whoop and I was interested to see how it would impact my body. It was able to detect that my skin temperature and my resting heart rate were above elevated levels.

With no surprise, it also detected that I had a really bad recovery score last night and I’m sitting at 14%. I had horrible sleep and high stress sleep due to my body fighting the bug which are the primary contributors.

Out of everything though, I am most impressed with the LLM chat feature. I am not sure how Whoop used to do things, but the chat feature basically gives me an accountability buddy that analyzes my data and then makes recommendations on that day’s activities.

Most notably today, it told me that I needed to rest and recover. This is not usually my MO. After I normally get back to a decent baseline after an illness, my first thing I always want to do is get a good workout or a sweat in as it helps make me feel better.

It turns out that is the opposite of what I should be doing. The Whoop chat bot explained to me with my data why I need to rest today and convinced me that I need to take today off from any sort of strenuous activity. It set-up a plan for me to get back into the swing of things as well perhaps starting tomorrow depending on my recovery.

The data doesn’t lie even when my body sometimes lies to me.