A Harebrained Dream of Building a Cabin in the Woods

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It sounds like a fantasy: join forces with a good friend to build a sweet little cabin in the woods. And for Bryan Schatz and Patrick Hutchison, that’s exactly how it felt. They took time away from promising careers to pursue a dream of crafting a base camp for adventures in an idyllic spot in Washington’s Cascade Range. There was just one problem: they had no idea what they were doing. Their planned summer project turned into a yearlong saga that drained their bank accounts and stressed their relationships with family, friends, and each other. But they stuck it out and ended up not only with a gorgeous cabin but a new perspective on what matters most in life. This episode of the Outside podcast is brought to you by Whoop, the fitness tracker that gets you training smarter by giving you feedback on every moment of your day. For a limited time, Outside Podcast listeners get 15 percent off a membership; just enter the code “outside” at checkout.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Whoop,
0:03.5	the fitness tracker that gets you training smarter
0:06.0	by giving you feedback on every moment of your day.
0:09.0	Whether you're an elite athlete or just someone looking to get in better shape.
0:13.3	The truth is that your workouts are only one part of a fitness routine.
0:17.5	To beat your true potential, you need to understand what's going on with your body all the
0:21.8	time. Your competitive advantage is in your downtime.
0:25.6	And if you're not measuring the impact of your downtime,
0:29.6	you're simply missing a massive piece of the performance puzzle.
0:33.6	That's Kristen Holmes, a former member of the US
0:36.4	National Field Hockey team and also one of the most successful coaches
0:40.0	in Ivy League history.
0:41.6	She's now the vice president of Performance Science at Woop.
0:44.7	And as she explains it, many athletes make the mistake
0:47.8	of working out based simply on how they feel,
0:50.4	or what their training schedule says they're supposed to do that day.
0:53.8	The problem with this is that we're not reacting to our actual physiological state, which is determined
0:59.2	by many factors.
1:00.8	How you're eating, how you're hydrating, you know, are you buffering stress and rest throughout the day?
1:06.4	What does your sleep look like? Are you getting into deeper stages of sleep? All of these things are massively influential on how you're going to show up tomorrow.
1:15.0	Whoop allows you to easily track all of these variables.
1:18.0	It's a lightweight 100% waterproof wrist wrist strap that calculates recovery, strain, and sleep metrics so you really know what
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