What Whoop costs, and what to do with the data it collects

A Whoop is bought as a membership paid by the year, and the sensor comes as part of it. Whoop sells three memberships, called One, Peak and Life, priced by membership and by the country you buy in. Every figure below comes from Whoop's own membership and help pages, in the currency Whoop charges in each country.

Whoop's prices in Ireland, the UK and the US

• One costs €199 a year in Ireland, £169 a year in the UK or $199 a year in the US.
• Peak costs €264 a year in Ireland, £229 a year in the UK or $239 a year in the US.
• Life costs €399 a year in Ireland, £349 a year in the UK or $359 a year in the US.

A membership is bought on a 12-month commitment, with a 24-month option for new members, and it renews automatically at the same yearly rate unless it is cancelled before the next billing cycle. Whoop's help centre also describes monthly billing once the first 12 months are complete, in the countries where it is offered.

When a member changes membership, an upgrade takes effect straight away with the price prorated, and a downgrade waits for the end of the billing cycle. The help centre adds that there is no refund for a move to a cheaper membership.

What each membership includes

One includes the Whoop 5.0 sensor with a basic charger and a knit band, and sleep, strain and recovery scores, coaching in the app, VO2 max, heart-rate zones and hormonal insights for women. Peak comes with the Whoop 5.0 sensor with a wireless battery pack, plus a health monitor with alerts, a stress monitor and Healthspan, its estimate of how fast the body is ageing. Life comes with the Whoop MG sensor with a wireless battery pack and a premium band, plus blood pressure insights, a heart screener that records an ECG and alerts for an irregular heart rhythm.

Whoop's membership page says its blood pressure insights cannot diagnose or manage a medical condition, and that health concerns belong with a doctor. Any reading about your heart or your blood pressure, whichever device it comes from, is one to take to your GP.

The same page lists a lifetime warranty on a device bought from Whoop, for as long as the membership stays active, and Whoop's help centre describes family plans, with everyone on the same membership and one person managing it.

The trial, the start date and returns

Whoop's help centre describes a 30-day free trial of Peak, on a Whoop 5.0 or a 4.0 that may be pre-owned, with no choice of which. The trial turns into a 12-month Peak membership when it ends, unless it is cancelled, and the terms include a $110 fee, in US dollars, for hardware that is not returned. To cancel a trial, the return has to start before the trial ends, with the device and charger both sent back.

A paid membership starts when the device is paired and activated, or 30 days after it ships. Whoop gives a full refund, less shipping, when the membership is cancelled and the device returned within 30 days of arriving, and how to cancel a Whoop membership takes you through the steps after that window, along with the option to pause.

What Whoop's own coach does

The Whoop app has an AI coach of its own. Whoop's help centre describes a morning outlook with a suggested strain for the day, a look at each workout once it is processed, an evening review with a suggested bedtime, and a chat coach that answers from the wearer's own data. The coach also keeps a memory of goals, habits and life events that the wearer can view, change or delete, and the help centre lists One's features as sleep, strain and recovery, a strength trainer, VO2 max, an AI coach, a journal that links habits to results, and trends.

Whoop's coaching is built around the day, from the morning outlook to the evening review. TriageFit coaches on a weekly rhythm, and it starts from what you tell it about the goal you are working towards, your training so far, any injury you carry, the kit you can reach and the hours your week leaves for training.

Turning the data into a training plan

TriageFit begins with the intake, around half an hour of questions that you can leave partway and finish later. The answers shape a programme in four-to-six-week phases our coaches wrote, which keep cycling while you train with us, and every session gets exercises picked to suit your kit, any injury and how experienced you are. Those answers set your eating targets too, with calories matched to your metabolism and macros that move each week in line with your check-in.

Your Whoop data arrives as a file. You request an export from Whoop in a web browser, Whoop emails a link to a zip, and TriageFit's import page names the file inside it to upload. The import brings in Whoop's recovery score, strain, sleep, resting heart rate and heart-rate variability. The readings are as recent as your last upload, so a fresh export before your check-in keeps them current.

Heart-rate variability is read against a baseline built from your own Whoop readings, and a figure from another device never goes into that baseline, since devices measure it in different ways. TriageFit works out your daily readiness from your heart-rate variability and resting heart rate, how hard each session asks you to work moves with how you are recovering, and what TriageFit learns from the readings comes from your own data alone.

Every week, on a day you pick, you send a short check-in that already lists the sessions you trained, and a real coach reads it.

A teacher's Mondays

A secondary-school teacher has worn a Whoop since the spring and gives Saturday mornings to the under-14 football team they coach. Sunday evenings go on corrections, and the Whoop app has shown them for months that Monday brings their lowest recovery of the week. They join TriageFit, finish the intake across a couple of evenings, and their first programme puts the heaviest lower-body session on Monday after school.

They tell the AI coach that Mondays are always their worst day. It proposes moving that session to Wednesday, and the change goes in once they confirm it. They upload a Whoop export that weekend, so TriageFit holds their heart-rate variability and resting heart rate as well as the sessions they log. At their next check-in they rate their sleep low, mention the Saturday match and put down as their win that every session in the week got done.

What it costs

TriageFit costs €50 every 4 weeks or €500 a year, with VAT included, and the Whoop import is part of that plan at no extra charge. The block plan has no contract, and you can cancel it whenever you want. A Whoop membership is a separate purchase, paid to Whoop on its own terms.

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How to start

Choose a plan on the pricing page, create your account and pay, and the intake opens. The import page inside the app has the steps for requesting a Whoop export and uploading it, and you can add your first file whenever it arrives. Coaching from wearable data covers the other devices, and online fitness coaching follows a full week of it.