MATCH PULSE a WHOOP × World Cup experiment

FIFA World Cup 2026

01

Wear

A WHOOP strap records the viewer's heart rate for the full ninety — plus a resting baseline from the days before.

02

Match

Every sustained heart-rate surge is matched to what the game was doing at that second — goals, penalties, missed chances, VAR.

03

Measure

The match gets a personal stress score from how hard, how often, and how long the body reacted.

The ninety, on a nervous system

Waiting for full-time.

The timeline appears here once the match has been played and the WHOOP data is synced.