At least I have insight into the fact that I am full of sh*t.
In many aspects of my life, I walk down the same street and fall down the same holes all the time, which frustrates my wife in an extraordinary way.
I'm a sucker for new technology, for any real technology and particularly when it's related to my health or health monitoring.
So, I wrote a little blog a while ago about how it was back on WHOOP and how it was going to be the next best thing again, even though I've been back on it before and stopped it.
I found it in my drawer, and it was still in subscription (I was on it 2 years ago, and I got 2 years for the price of 1, and it finishes now on the 10th of March).
And so, the reason I'm full of sh*t today is that I will not be renewing my subscription to WHOOP, and I'll be popping it back in that drawer and not picking it up again.
The truth about WHOOP is it doesn't tell me anything that I don't already know (Alison's been telling me that for many years). It just kind of reaffirms the fact that there are things that I shouldn't do that I choose to do.
It also is too unpredictable for me to believe it.
And so there are days when I wake up, and I think, God, I am exhausted (that happens quite a lot), and the WHOOP says I'm not, and then there are other days when I wake up and think today is going to be a good day and then the WHOOP tells me that I'm red in my recovery, and then I think it's gonna be the worst day because the WHOOP said so.
So here are the lessons I've learned from 2 years of subscription to WHOOP, which I've used for about 14 months.
- Drinking is not great for me in anything but the smallest amount of moderation. If I have 2 pints in an evening, but the second pint is after 9 o'clock, it will wreck my sleep.
- Eating sugar is very bad for me at any time, particularly after 6 p.m.
- If I don't get enough sleep, that's not very good.
- If I train really hard, I'm tired, and I need to sit down.
I probably didn't need to spend £229 and have something strapped to my wrist for the last 2 years to find that out.
I thought it would keep me honest, but it doesn't I just continue with the behaviours (at times) that are not ideal and let the WHOOP tell me what it tells me.
And so what I'll try to do is be a bit better at controlling those behaviours and spend the £229 that I was going to renew on the 10th of March on something more worthwhile than the WHOOP.
Blog Post Number - 4098
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