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Electrical Accountability

"Well, it must be so if the strap says it," says my wife on more than one occasion about the Whoop I'm currently wearing on my right wrist.

The Whoop gives you detailed health information based on your heart rate and heart rate variability, your respiratory rate and your sleep, your skin temperature and all that jazz.

It's the next generation of analytics from the Garmin watch I'm wearing on my left wrist and the next generation from the heart rate monitor I use when I'm on my bike, etc. 

Electrical accountability is all fine as long as it provides you with accountability.

The risk for me is that all it does is tell me that things aren't going well when they aren't going well, and then that makes me feel worse.

One of the problems with the Whoop is that it gives you a green, yellow or red recovery score every day. After seven greens last week in preparation for the bike trip to Majorca, I woke up the day before with a red recovery for no apparent reason.

I think I had woken up feeling fine until I got a red and then wondered if I was feeling fine at all.

The problem with electrical accountability is it's the accountability of the electrics, and so it's actually only to help to inform and not to tell you how you feel.

Something for me to learn.

It's fine when the electrical accountability tells me that eating chocolate right before bed gives me a shit sleep.

It's another thing to tell me not to eat chocolate before bed.

By Colin Campbell on 29/09/23 18:00