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The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

21. Will Ahmed — Unlocking Human Performance

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Management, Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

5.0540 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

"The cool thing about finding a way to manage through difficult times is that when times are good, it's like you've been training with weights on." - Will Ahmed How can tracking your own body's data unlock your peak performance? How does stress manifest differently in entrepreneurs and elite athletes? Does blocking blue light really help you get better sleep? Can a health tracker predict COVID-19 in asymptomatic patients? Unlocking Human Performance the WHOOP Way Will Ahmed, Founder and CEO of fitness tracker & lifestyle brand WHOOP, is on a mission to unlock human performance. Created for and used by world-renowned athletes, WHOOP wants to give everyone the chance to operate at their peak and understand their bodies in a profound way. What is heart rate variability and what can it tell you about stress? How much sleep do you really need? When should you hit the high-intensity workouts and when is it best to hold back? Will Ahmed lets us in on some of WHOOP's most intriguing insights. It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint: Entrepreneurial Health Hacks Entrepreneurs take on more stress than most people are willing to endure, but they're not superhuman. Instead of easing off of stressful activities, entrepreneurs often have to establish methods to withstand high-stress situations on a regular basis. Will experienced this first-hand while building WHOOP, and he's keen to share his findings. Sleep is paramount, but you might not be getting the right kind. We talk REM, cognitive repair, and the small lifestyle changes that can add up to make a huge difference. Detecting COVID-19: What Really Happened at the PGA Tour With a huge dataset provided by WHOOP wearers who signed up to participate, the company started to track health and fitness parameters during the pandemic. Will talks us through the insights they've uncovered and how they're collaborating with academics and healthcare professionals to help predict new cases and offer insights into the effect of the virus. Plus, we reveal how WHOOP was instrumental in detecting Nick Watney's asymptomatic COVID-19 — a game changing save that would have otherwise had dramatic effects on the world of professional golf and the health of its athletes. Key takeaways: There's no one-size-fits-all when it comes to health. Will Ahmed isn't against paleo or keto diets, but he believes that our physiology and nutrition requirements are highly individual. To optimize your personal health, there's no substitute for self-study. It's not about parameters. It's about performance. When it comes to tracking fitness, we shouldn't view specific figures as goals to hit. Instead, Will argues the case for a personal-best and performance-orientated view, particularly in the workplace. The future of personalized healthcare. Will Ahmed believes that in the near future we'll be able to have individual recipes that make up our ideal health plans, from how and when we work out, to our diets, to which supplements we take. Links And Resources The Game Changing Attorney Podcast Michael Mogill Facebook Michael Mogill Twitter Michael Mogill Instagram Michael Mogill LinkedIn Crisp Video Website Crisp Video Facebook Crisp Video Group Twitter Crisp Video Instagram Crisp Video LinkedIn Will Ahmed LinkedIn Will Ahmed Twitter Whoop Website

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where I thought that the Nike fuel band and the jawbone and the fitbits of the world were lame,

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was that the best athletes in the world didn't wear them.

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That's Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, a company whose mission is to unlock human performance.

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You know, in the early days of the company, I remember investors would say to me,

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oh, you should just go, you know, pay these guys, or you should go give them a bunch of equity.

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And I said that completely missed the point, because if we built the technology that we were

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promising we could build, they would pay us to wear it.

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I'm Michael Mogul, founder and CEO of Crisp Video, the nation's number one law firm

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growth company. I've built my business through practice, not theory. Crisp started with just

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$500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in revenue over the last few years,

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earning a spot on the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. Our approach has been to take everything

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we've learned about generating massive growth within our own organization and help the country's

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most ambitious and committed law firm owners do the same for theirs. In each episode of this

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podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond. To learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity, challenge the status quo,

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and define what it means to be a true game changer. On today's episode, I sat down with Will

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Ahmed to talk about achieving optimal performance by unlocking your full physical and mental

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potential to not only become healthier, but also more resilient and effective.

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The cool thing about dealing with that

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and also finding a way to manage through really difficult times

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is that when times are then good,

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it's almost like you've been training with weights on,

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and all of a sudden the weights are off and the winds of your back and you realize the power of momentum.

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