Reproductive Health Tracking Across Life Stages

WHOOP provides personalized health insights designed to support women through every physiological shift—from menstrual cycle tracking to pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause. By measuring how your body responds to hormonal changes, WHOOP helps you optimize sleep, training, and recovery based on your unique physiology across all life stages.

Women experience continuous physiological changes throughout their lives. WHOOP enables you to track these changes with dedicated features and Journal toggles, providing data-driven insights that help you understand how your body adapts and what you can do to support your health at every stage.

A personalized approach to female physiology

Your physiology is unique and dynamic. Standard health and fitness metrics often fail to capture the full picture of women's health, which fluctuates daily, monthly, and across different life stages.

WHOOP measures how your key health indicators like resting heart rate and HRV respond to your menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and other hormonal changes. This allows you to move beyond generic advice and make informed decisions based on your body's real-time data.

Understand your cycle with Menstrual Cycle Insights

Menstrual Cycle Insights shows how the phases of your cycle affect your Sleep and Strain, with functionality available for members both with and without hormonal birth control. It enables you to optimize your training and recovery based on where you are in your monthly cycle. You can learn what behaviors may influence symptoms like cramps and bloating, and how exercise and strain in different phases impact you.

Women's nutrition expert Dr. Hazel Wallace notes that women's bodies change the way they use carbohydrates and fat for fuel in different stages of the menstrual cycle. You can track your dietary habits in the Journal, including behaviors like food cravings, to learn how they impact your training, Sleep, and Recovery across your cycle.

WHOOP features an auto-log capability that can import data from Apple Health into the WHOOP Journal. Tracking changes to your reproductive health helps you see how your cycle impacts your Recovery and overall health.

Support for every life stage

WHOOP supports you through major physiological shifts with dedicated Journal toggles and insights for trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and postmenopause. These features help you better understand how your body changes and personalize recommendations around different life stages.

Trying to Conceive: Trying to get pregnant isn't always easy. Toggling "Trying to Conceive" or "Ovulating," along with Menstrual Cycle Insights, helps you track ovulation so you can know your most fertile days in the month.

In a first-of-its-kind study from West Virginia University School of Medicine, WHOOP was used to monitor health trends of active pregnant women throughout their entire pregnancy. Among other findings, a decrease in HRV and an increase in resting heart rate were observed after conception and before the first missed period. The results indicate that monitoring HRV and RHR daily could potentially be helpful in detecting pregnancy.

Pregnancy: When you log your pregnancy in the Journal, you can join a Community team chat based on your due date to share experiences and find support from other pregnant members. Current guidelines on exercise during pregnancy have changed since first being issued in 1985 by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Dr. Shon Rowan, lead researcher on the WVU study, recently appeared on our podcast and said he still hears outdated recommendations from physicians. Current recommendations from 2017 state that pregnant women perform moderate exercise 3-4 times a week and that it's no longer a recommendation to not start an exercise regimen if you hadn't before pregnancy. "We can be more aggressive in letting women know what they can do," he said.

Former US National Team rower Sara Hendershot used WHOOP throughout her pregnancy in 2019, and saw interesting changes in her resting heart rate and HRV. "My body's ability to take on strain also trended down over time, which was displayed by a decrease in heart rate variability and daily WHOOP strain scores. The six months prior to becoming pregnant, my average HRV was 64, compared to the first six months of pregnancy when it dropped to an average of 50."

Postpartum: Having a new baby takes a toll physically and mentally on parents. Logging 'parenting an infant' in the Journal will personalize WHOOP for this phase of life.

Dr. Rowan's study found that in the 12 weeks after giving birth, women in the study had higher HRV scores compared to their baseline post pregnancy, meaning these participants were continuing to make fitness gains during their pregnancy. "So many women say 'I've made amazing progress. I don't want to have a baby right now; I don't want to hinder that progress I've made.' We're able to say you're not hindering, you're actually increasing your progress by getting pregnant," he said.

Menopause: Toggling perimenopause or postmenopause in the Journal helps you better track your symptoms and fine-tune your training. When you begin perimenopause (the multiyear transition stage before you completely stop getting your period and enter postmenopause), the most important thing is to track your symptoms, your sleep, and how you're feeling, according to Dr. Stacy Sims, an expert in female physiology.

The research behind the insights

Pregnant women have been excluded from medical studies for decades. Dr. Rowan calls the practice discriminatory and says that it's led some physicians to provide outdated information to their patients who are trying to conceive or are pregnant. "There is a major knowledge and education gap when it comes to studying women's health," he says.

We want to reverse this trend. WHOOP has conducted and continues to support large-scale research into women's reproductive health to better understand the changes they go through during all life stages, including menstruation, trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and postmenopause.

"The vast majority of research that our training is based on actually doesn't really apply to [women] or we don't understand how it maybe needs to be modified to apply," said WHOOP VP of Data Science and Research Emily Capodilupo during a recent episode of the WHOOP Podcast. The intent of this research is to expand our understanding of how exercise affects sleep and recovery at every stage of women's lives. Findings from this research have been published in scientific journals and have led to the development of new features within the WHOOP app.

Unlock your potential at every stage

From understanding your monthly cycle to navigating pregnancy and menopause, WHOOP provides the data-driven insights you need to make smarter decisions for your health. By quantifying your body's unique responses, you can train, recover, and live in sync with your physiology.

Frequently asked questions about WHOOP and women's health

Does WHOOP track hormones?

WHOOP does not directly measure hormonal levels. Instead, it measures key physiological metrics like heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and skin temperature. These metrics fluctuate in response to hormonal changes throughout the menstrual cycle, allowing you to see the effects of your cycle on your body and receive personalized insights.

Can WHOOP detect atrial fibrillation?

With a WHOOP Life membership, the Heart Screener feature can analyze your heart rhythm to detect potential signs of Atrial Fibrillation (AFib). It provides greater awareness of your heart health, but it is not a medical diagnostic tool.

How does WHOOP help with sleep during different phases of the menstrual cycle?

By correlating your logged cycle data with your nightly Sleep Performance, WHOOP helps you identify patterns. For example, you might notice your sleep quality declines during the luteal phase. With this insight, you can use the Sleep Planner to adjust your bedtime and meet your body's changing sleep needs to optimize Recovery.

Is my reproductive health data kept private?

Yes. We are committed to protecting your privacy. Your personal health data, including any information you log in the Journal about your reproductive health, is encrypted, secure, and is never shared or sold.

This feature is for wellness purposes only and not for medical use. This feature is not available for users under the age of 18.