whoop band 4.0 or a Garmin which one is the way to go which one's right for you that's we're going to talk about today oh man check out that watch tan it's getting pretty legit [Music] [Applause] well hello there welcome back to the channel I'm Dave from Chase Summit and in this video I want to do a quick comparison between the Garmin Foreigner 955 and some of its new features mainly the training readiness and HRV status function and how this new information on these new features compare to the whoop band 4.0 if you're unaware the Garmin Foreigner 955 came out a few weeks ago and when it came out it also came with a couple of new features that weren't previously seen on any other garment that is this new training readiness and HRV status function that try to give you an idea of how you're recovering from the previous day of activities and how much training you should take on the following day this is really useful information and right now it's only available on the Garmin Foreigner 955 and 255 however it is coming to a bunch of other Garmin devices like the Garmin Fenix 7 the Apex Gen 2 probably the Enduro 2 and more and more but this will come down the road in additional firmware updates now the whoop band 4.0 is a different kind of device this is basically just a heart rate sensor that ties into an app on your phone to try to give you an idea of your recovery and training from previous days and both of these platforms are trying to do a similar thing in a different way and in this video I just want to compare side by side what the information looks like so you can get an idea of what to expect if you invest in either a Garmin or The Loop band 4.0 now before I get out the laptop and start comparing data keep in mind that I am not a doctor or a scientist I really have no way of proving which one's more accurate in terms of sleep and recovery and things like that all I can do is compare the information side by side and let you know what I think about each one I also want to mention that this is merely a comparison video to show you what to expect from both of these devices side by side to show you how useful they might be but again I have no way to prove how accurate they are and I'm not going to try to dive too deep on which one might be right and before we dive into the laptop and all the raw data I do want to remind you that if you do find this video helpful or fun or anything to please consider hitting that thumbs up and subscribing to the Channel Down Below because it really helps me out also if you're planning on picking up a new Garmin or the whoop band 4.0 check out the links in the description down below that does help support the channel and it costs nothing extra to you and on the whoop band in particular I've got a pretty sweet discount that you can get by using the link in the description down below and with that long-winded intro out of the way let's go ahead and crack open the laptop to compare some of this data side by side okay so what you're looking at here is Garmin connect on the left and the whoop website on the right here and both are displaying some of my data the page I'm looking on Garmin connect on the left is actually this little daily summary dashboard that gives you all of your daily Wellness information so if I scroll down here on Garmin Connect you can see I've got my training status my training readiness my HRV status my steps for the day intensity minutes calories in and out in the list goes on and on on the right on the whoop band 4.0 we're looking at the whoop dashboard that gives me my daily stats it shows my sleep from the previous night my heart rate for the day so far my my strain and recovery so far as well so at a glance on both platforms there's a ton of information presented to you I do like on the whoop band website here that at the top I've got a quick over overview of my stringing and recovery for the day along with my sleep performance from the previous night the first thing I want to look at here is scrolling down to training readiness on Garmin Connect and clicking on view details so this will give me even more information so this training readiness function basically tries to give you a holistic view taking a bunch of things into account to try to give you an idea of how ready you are for more training so if I scroll down here it shows that my training readiness is low right now I've got a 41 out of 100 it shows me that I have a little suggestion here it says find time to relax that poor sleep has reduced my training readiness the reason why it says this is because last night my son my four-year-old actually got into bed with us he had a nightmare woke us up at three o'clock in the morning we're up a little bit early so I didn't get a ton of sleep last night not a real great night of sleep and Garmin actually recognized this and suggested that I take some time to relax today but below that it shows me all the factors that play a role in that score that is the Sleep score from the previous night which is poor like I said then I've got my recovery time here from running from yesterday I still have 20 hours to recover from that I've got my HRV status my acute load my sleep history so multiple days of sleep and then at the bottom here we've got stress history now if we turn to the whoop platform and we try to compare the information I'm getting here to training readiness you can see that I'm getting similar information so you can see that today I've got a low strain score because I haven't really done anything today I woke up a little while ago I had breakfast fed the kids and stuff and then I came here and here I am so I've got a low strain score of 4.7 so far today and if I go over and click on recovery here you can see that my recovery is only at 44 and below that recovery score of 44 there's also a little blurb here that just spells out in plain English why that recovery score is so low it says your resting heart rate at 64 beats per minute is 8.5 percent above its typical range indicating that your body is moderately recovered and then below that we have a little graph here that shows where my heart rate variability my resting heart rate and my sleep performance is today as compared to yesterday and then over on the left side of the page on the website you can see that there's HRV resting heart rate and sleep and there's a little arrow that's next to those numbers to indicate if they're going up or going down and they're red or green letting me know if that's good or bad so generally speaking judging by the training readiness on Garmin Connect and the whoop bands recovery tab I feel like both websites are trying to give me similar information to take it easy today going back to Garmin Connect here you can see that below training readiness we also have a new feature called HRV status an HRV status is trying to take your heart rate variability for multiple days and then gives you an idea if you're balanced or unbalanced and if you're balanced it means you have a stable HRV every day for multiple days in a row and if you're unbalanced it means your HRV is kind of all over the place that can indicate something like illness coming on over training or even just having too many drinks the night before alcohol that is so on HRV status if I click view more details here you can see that it gives me a little blurb about what this actually means and then below that there's a little graph to show me my HRV over time but what's really cool about HRV status on Garmin Connect is if I click this little report icon up here I can actually get more details about my HRV and I can go back all the way four weeks and see how my Trends have been over time so you can see back in July here I actually ran an ultra marathon at the end of July and you can see that my HRV became unbalanced for a little while there and as it recovered it got better and better and right now it's pretty good now in the whoop website we can actually do a similar thing if I click on HRV and then I go ahead and click on one week here for for the timeline you can see a graph for the past seven days just like we see on Garmin Connect however I do notice something weird here on the Woopa band HRV you can see that my HRV was 41 49 50 58 and 41 but on Garmin Connect you see 44 46 46 46 45. so my HRV appears to be way more consistent on Garmin Connect and on the whoop side of things it seems way less balanced and inconsistent and I don't know why unfortunately I don't have a scientific way of measuring my HRV so I'm just going off of what these two platforms actually tell me that said the numbers do seem pretty similar I mean we're kind of splitting hairs between 49 and 50 milliseconds when it comes to HRV and we're going off of an optical heart rate sensor on the back of both of these devices so they're probably not going to be perfect but it is weird that Garmin connects is more balanced and kind of seems to be more of a arced sweep where on the whoop band it's kind of jumping up and down all over the place so I don't know which one's more accurate this is just a data point for you to see and kind of make your own opinions going back to the whoop band website here I jump back to the overview page and I really like this view on the overview page you can see here the past seven days of my strain and Recovery over time and what's really cool about this is the blue line at the bottom here represents my strain so you can see here 8.4 that was the day I ran another day I ran was 6.7 here and then 7.6 was yesterday I went for like a five mile run but above that these yellow and green dots indicate my recovery from the previous day so you can see that I wasn't fully recovered for three days in a row then I got a really good night of sleep here and it went up to 74 percent and turned green indicating that I got good recovery then it went back to Yellow because I went on a run that day and I didn't get good sleep again and then I went back to back to green again so you can see I'm kind of balancing my my recovery and strain throughout multiple days this view can give you a really good idea of your training over time and how you're recovering if you have multiple days of being in the yellow or even in the red you know you need to take a rest day pump the brakes a little bit and then see if you can bounce back from that that deficit and finally I just want to compare one night of sleep data between these two devices so you can see what to expect if you buy either one so on the left here again is Garmin Connect it's showing me that I got nine hours and 11 minutes of sleep this is not last night a couple of days ago to give you an idea of a good night of sleep and that I've got one hour and 36 minutes of Deep Sleep 5 hours and 48 minutes of light sleep an hour and 47 minutes of REM sleep and one minute of being awake and now on the right side of the screen we're looking at that same night of sleep on the loop system to see how it Compares so you can see right off the bat in terms of overall sleep these two line up pretty favorably so on the Garmin Connect site you can see nine hours and 11 minutes on woodband I got 9 hours and 14 minutes that's kind of splitting hairs it's pretty good now if we go down to the bottom here you can see on whoop band I got four hours in light sleep that isn't really that comparative able to garmin's 5 hours and 48 minutes we got 2 hours and 37 minutes on the wood band and REM sleep and then an hour and 47 on Garmin and then uh one minute of being awake compared to 31 minutes of being awake so in terms of overall sleep these two line up pretty favorably but when it comes to the sleep stages they're both pretty different there is one really cool feature about the whoop band that I really like and if you look at the top right of your screen here you can see that it shows me my hours of sleep for the night but it also shows me how much sleep I actually needed this is super handy to know like if you're trying to hit a Target to set your alarm for a certain time of day so you know you can get the most out of your sleep unfortunately this function of sleep needed does not exist on the Garmin Connect platform yet maybe it's something they could develop down the road all right I think that's all the data I wanted to show you like I said at the beginning of this video this is not an in-depth review on either one of these devices I just want to show you some of the information that they give you side by side so you can kind of make your own opinion about which one might be right for you and at the end of the day both of these devices do give you a lot of insight on your strain and recovery and how you're sleeping and all that information on a daily basis and both are really useful one thing to keep in mind though is the price the whoop band 4.0 does come in with a subscription model so you're going to pay up to thirty dollars a month depending on the package you choose to keep this thing on your wrist and get data from it where on Garmin it's a one-time purchase there's no monthly fee or anything like that but the device is much more money this Garmin 400 955 comes in at 499 dollars but there are other devices like the Foreigner 255 that come in a bit cheaper still more expensive than a whoop band but again there's no subscription or monthly fee so you got to take that into consideration and as for which one's better there really isn't a better here both provide really good information for sleep and recovery but another thing to keep in mind is that these Garmin watches are also full-blown fitness trackers they've got displays on them where they can give you the time of day read your notifications and text messages and you can also take them for a run and use the built-in GPS functions to do that we're on the loop band you're basically just getting a heart rate sensor that ties into the whoop ecosystem for strain and recovery and sleep information anyways that's really it for this quick video just a quick comparison of the information you get from both the Garmin platform and the whoop platform when it comes to HRV training training readiness and status and all that information and how they compare side by side I hope you found it useful and if you did please consider hitting that thumbs up and subscribing down below because that does really help me out and check out the links in the description down below if you want a discount on the whoop band 4.0 or if you're planning to pick up a Garmin Foreigner 955 or any Garmin for that matter that's really all I've got for this one I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one bye foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music]