A WHOOP membership can hold years of continuous physiological data, and it is the one thing you genuinely cannot reconstruct after the fact. Getting it out takes about two minutes of work and one wait.
Requesting the export
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Open the WHOOP app and go to your account settings
The Data Export option lives in the app’s settings rather than on the web dashboard. WHOOP has moved its exact position between releases, so look under account or data settings rather than for a fixed menu path.
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Choose Data Export and confirm
You are requesting the whole history, from the day you signed up. There is no date range to choose, which is a small mercy.
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Wait for the email
The app warns it can take up to 24 hours. Most people get it within half an hour to a few hours. The subject line is “Your WHOOP Export is Ready”.
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Download and check the file opens
Hit the download link in the email and actually open the CSV before you do anything else. A download link you never tested is not a backup.
What you get
Daily scores. Sleep, recovery and strain for every day you have been a member.
The underlying physiology. Resting heart rate, heart rate variability and respiratory rate, which is the genuinely valuable part. These are the numbers that took years to accumulate and that establish what normal looks like for you.
Sleep architecture. Stage breakdowns per night.
Journal entries. Every behaviour you logged, which is what makes the physiological data interpretable. If you have been tagging alcohol, caffeine and late meals for two years, that is a genuinely irreplaceable dataset and it is the part people forget is in there.
What to do with the CSV
Archive it properly. Not in your downloads folder. Put it somewhere backed up, alongside anything else you would be annoyed to lose.
Do not expect to import it into Apple Health. Apple Health does not accept CSV. Third-party converters exist and results vary. Most people find it more practical to keep the file as a historical archive and start a new baseline from their watch.
Read the journal correlations while you still remember the context. The single most useful thing in the export is the relationship between what you logged and what your body did, and that is easiest to interpret soon after.
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