Alcohol: Kristen Holmes and Emily Capodilupo break down everything you need to know about how alcohol impacts your sleep, recovery and performance.

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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For Sober October, VP of Performance Kristen Holmes and Director of Analytics Emily Capodilupo take a deep dive into how alcohol affects your body, including the myth that it helps you sleep (4:58), its impact on your sleep cycles (4:58), why it'll prevent you from seeing the benefits of a workout (8:24), what you'll notice in your WHOOP metrics after drinking (9:54), the story of a team that went sober and won a national championship (11:16), empowering collegiate athletes with data (12:47),...

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0:00.0	We discovered that there were secrets that your body was trying to tell you that could really help you optimize performance.
0:10.6	But no one could monitor those things.
0:13.2	And that's when we set out to build the technology that we thought could really change the world.
0:19.1	Welcome to the Whoop podcast.
0:21.5	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:27.5	human performance.
0:29.6	At Whoop, our clients range from the best professional athletes in the world to Navy Seals,
0:34.3	to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500 CEOs and executives.
0:41.3	The common thread among Woop members is a passion to improve. What does it take to optimize performance for athletes, for humans, really anyone?
0:46.3	And now that we've just launched all-new WOOP-Strap 3.0,
0:50.3	featuring WOOP Live, which takes real-time training and recovery analysis to the next level,
0:57.0	you're going to hear how many of these users are optimizing their body with Whoop and with other things in their life.
1:05.1	On this podcast, we dig deeper.
1:07.2	We interview experts.
1:08.4	We interview industry leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement.
1:13.9	You name it. How can you use data to improve your body? What should you change about your life?
1:19.9	My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion for performance.
1:25.2	With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop Podcast.
1:32.3	During exercise, your muscles break down and you create all these tiny little injuries,
1:36.3	and the getting stronger and getting fitter happens when you sleep following that workout.
1:41.3	When you drink, what that does is instead of letting your body get that slow wave
1:45.9	sleep produce that human growth hormone and rebuild those muscles stronger, you sort of
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