hey everyone welcome back just finished the Whoop announcement video and the whoop strap 4.0 is
finally here we've been waiting for this for a very long time about 10 years in the making so
really excited to talk about some of the new features that exist in that 4.0 as well as some of
the other cool announcements that they made during the event so this was oops first virtual event and
in it they talked about some of the new software upgrades they're gonna make they brought in some
cool guest speakers to talk about some of those new things that they're announcing and launching
but overall the main announcement the main thing that we want to talk about in this video
is the launch of the whoop strap 4.0 that's what we've been waiting for and that's what
we're most excited about before i get into all of the details Whoop is sending me the 4.0 strap
i will get that hopefully very soon but if you want to see the full review of those features
and the new changes don't forget to subscribe to the channel so you can see that when it comes out
but let's jump right into some of those new features of the Whoop 4.0 strap okay one of the
things that they talked about is the new sensors they have four times the amount of sensors going
on in their strap than they used to have which hopefully improves some of the inaccuracies that
we saw if you saw a dc rainmaker's review or the quantified scientist you probably know that the
hr sensor is probably the least effective part of the Whoop band however their platform in general
for the most part makes up for it but once they change those sensors and hopefully improve them
in the new Whoop strap 4.0 again testing to be determined hopefully that significantly improves
in adding these sensors they also gave us a pulse oximeter as well as skin temperature sensing so
we'll be able to add those features and those data points into the regular strain and recovery scores
we also added some haptic feedback into the whoop strap itself so now when you're sleeping you can
get a vibration alarm instead of just the whoops sitting there not really doing anything now it has
the capability to vibrate on your wrist another additional improvement to the battery pack they
made it smaller obviously because the new 4.0 is 33 smaller than the 3.0 but they did allow it to
be waterproof so now you can wear your battery pack and not worry as much about getting in
the shower getting it wet um i would be probably concerned about using it in any type of contact or
other high intensity sport because it is just a clip-on device so the battery pack probably won't
stay on as easily but at least it's waterproof so you don't have to worry about some of those
other things like taking a shower or washing your hands while you have the battery pack attached
so i talked about the new size of the Whoop 4.0 it's 33 smaller much more compact i think one
of the things that i really like at least from the designs they showed us is we don't have all of the
contact points here on the edge of the band itself it's just not as fun to look at but i
think they've improved that significantly with the 4.0 they redesigned their bands themselves
i think this is a good call because the whoop bands that worked on the 3.0 are not going to work
on the 4.0 so you want something new something refreshed so they changed their knit band they
also added a new fast link system technology i'm not sure if the technology i'm not sure if it was
invented like they say but essentially they added a new feature where the strap attaches to a clasp
instead of attaching directly to the sensor so now you can add and remove those bands significantly
easier without having to pull the band at just the right attachment or pull it through make
sure it's perfectly sized for your wrist all you have to do now is remove the clasp and you can
switch your band which is significantly easier okay so that was the one thing that i wanted
to absolutely start with 4.0 all the new features and let's talk a little bit more about some of the
new announcements the new things that they're doing with their software and their platform
in addition to the new band that has come out some of the features that they've added over the last
three months or so they added a team chat they added an ask me anything feature into the app
as well as like a membership chat so i mean three different chat features so i guess the
three different features but really kind of the same feature they also talked about levels so now
as you get different levels of recovery or you just have the whoop for longer you can level up
i don't see much value in that it kind of gamifies the experience but
all it's really doing is saying how long you've had your loop for is the level that you have so
it just incentivizes people to be subscribed for longer anyway those four features in general
not my favorite features they exist they're cool yeah but there aren't something that i think
i would have justified paying 30 a month for the last four months because of those features
now that being said the Whoop 4.0 and some of the other initiatives that they have planned
do seem to provide a lot more value and they're not changing the Whoop subscription price that
was a huge announcement i think as part of this Whoop unlocked 2021 is that they're not
changing the price of their subscription so they're providing more value but they're not
increasing their prices which is a very big deal okay so in addition to the Whoop 4.0 they talked
about what this new band can do and what they're doing with it one of those things was the whoop
health monitor now what this does is it gives you an extra little band right above your regular
band connection bar at the bottom of the app which will tell you if anything or any of your specific
health indicators are out of a certain range out of a healthy range something you should be aware
of a lot of the talk about COVID 19 and other strain of recovery especially when COVID 19
was big and i was feeling a little bit under the weather first thing i would do is i would go into
my whoop app and i would see if my respiratory rate was above a certain threshold or if it jumped
a little bit to see if i could potentially be at risk for coven 19 knowing that whoop does not
diagnose COVID 19 but it does help a lot of people understand if they've been impacted by the virus
that's one of the indicators so one of the things that they've added is this health monitor that
will allow you to quickly and easily see if any of your key indicators have changed significantly
over the past day and i think having that in a quick and easy place is a big improvement
the second thing i wanted to highlight is the new sleep coach it just gives you another way
to wake up so when they say new sleep coach i'm not necessarily sure that it's entirely new
but what they've done is they've added the haptic feedback so the vibration into the band itself
which allows you to wake up at a specific time just using your whoop not relying on a separate
alarm and using the vibration is significantly better than waking up to a really loud alarm and
it hopefully will help you wake up a little bit more rested they have three specific different
wake up elements that you can use one of those is waking up at a specific time nothing special about
that it's just a vibration alarm that it's set at a specific time if you have to go to the airport
like they mentioned in the announcement you can just set it at that time and wake up at that time
the second one is your sleep goal so if you have a sleep goal of 9.2 hours or if you have
a sleep goal if you have to get six hours and 53 minutes that night it will just wake you
up between the time you go to bed and the time you need to wake up to get that 100 sleep need
you can set it to do that so if you don't have a specific time in the morning you need to wake up
you want to just start tracking in the background and say whenever i go to bed
add that specific sleep need to that time and wake me up in the morning whenever i have met 100 of
my sleep need which is a really cool feature they also allow you to have a backup timer so
maybe we aren't able to just say oh wake me up whenever but we do have to be up at a specific
time to go to work or get something done you can set that time and say wake me up when i met 100
of my sleep need but if i haven't met it yet at this time wake me up anyway and it does the same
thing with the third feature in the green option and this allows you to wake up as soon as you are
in the green zone for recovery so you can set it to peak perform all those different things
um during your sleep need which will give you a different amount of sleep you have to get to get
to a hundred percent or you can say just wake me up as soon as i'm in the green recovery because
that's what i'm really going for and then let me wake up and go about my day again you can set a
default timer to say if i haven't gotten there by this specific time wake me up anyway okay so not
only is Whoop now making bands but they're also starting to make sports clothing so they call this
whoop body and was one of their announcements that they're starting to make different things like
sports bras and boxers and tons of other things that you can wear with the whoop embedded in them
it just contains a little pouch that you can slide the Whoop 4.0 sensor into it will allow you to
not have a band on your arm or on your bicep but instead you can put it in your shirt for example
they have a performance shirt that you can slide it into right underneath the sleeve very similar
to how their bicep band used to work but now it's put directly into the clothing that whoop makes
now i know there's lots of different types of performance clothing and ways you can get
there but this is made specifically by Whoop to hold the Whoop 4.0 so if you want to use that
you won't have to have worry about the band or anything you just remove your sensor and add that
directly into your clothing so i've taken a look at some of the prices of these clothes and they're
not the cheapest i'd say they're definitely at the higher end of the premium sports wear that you're
trying to buy but it does have the novelty of letting you add the whoop sensor directly into it
they do have another way of you getting that type of clothing on their subscription model but we'll
talk about that in just a bit okay a couple more things that they talked about in the announcement
whoop live we've seen this before and i've seen this on a few golf presentations but they do have
to continue to partner with these sports news stations and these other sports announcers to
provide loop live data into the live stream of specific sports will the CEO did promise that we
will see this whoop live data in many more sports very soon so we will definitely be on the lookout
for that okay the Whoop pro is the last thing that i want to talk about in this video um there
are a couple more things if i missed anything here please don't forget to add that into the
comment section below i will answer and see any of those comments as quickly as i can but the whoop
pro membership is another 12 a month that you can pay to get free gifts uh throughout the year so
if you pay 12 a month every quarter so every three months you will get a free product from
Whoop they mentioned in the program that you can get a battery pack or two pairs of boxer shorts
different things that they offer as accessories to the whoop system i don't know how valuable i
would personally rank this they did also mention you get a discount on the store i think it was 20
i will confirm that in the description of this video but i think you may be better served to
just save your 12 a month and then buy the things you need when you need them versus giving them 12
a month and then hoping that you actually want or need the thing every three months but maybe that
will be a bigger part of my full review later on so if you want to see the full review of the Whoop
4.0 again they're sending me a band it's not here yet but once it gets here i will do a full review
of that band and put it on this channel so if you're not subscribed already don't forget to
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