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Avoid Overtraining by Measuring HRV, Sleep, and Recovery with WHOOP — Barbell Shrugged #385

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

WHOOP is the performance tool that is changing the way people track their fitness and optimize their training. WHOOP provides a wrist worn heart rate monitor that pairs to their app that provides analytics and insights on recovery, strain, and sleep. Know when your body is recovered or when it needs rest by getting to know your nervous system through heart rate variability and quality of sleep. Automatically track workouts and get strain scores that let you know how strenuous training was on your body and see even more data like average heart rate, max heart rate, and calories burned. Get optimal sleep times based on how strenuous your day was and track sleep performance with insight into your sleep cycles and stages of sleep, sleep quality, and sleep consistency. WHOOP monitors heart rate 100 per second 24/7 to give you full insight into your day so you can optimize the way you train. WHOOP has provided an offer for listeners to get 15% off their purchase with the code "shrugged." Just go to WHOOP and use the code "shrugged" at checkout to save 15% and optimize the way you train.

 

In this episode of Barbell Shrugged we talk with Mike from WHOOP about the goal and vision of WHOOP, our experience with WHOOP, the impact of travel schedules with athletes, how to apply data into daily routines, how to interpret strain, future tracking goals with WHOOP, going through Ander's data, how coaches can use WHOOP with their athletes, and much more.

 

Enjoy!

- Anders and Doug

 

Episode Breakdown:

0:00 – 2:12 Intro                                                                                                    

2:12 – 5:04  Mike's Background                                                                     

5:05 – 5:58 The goal and vision of WHOOP                                               

5:59 – 7:41 Barbell Shrugged's initial experience with WHOOP                                                                              

8:07 – 10:49  Recovery                                                           

10:50 – 14:18   Strain                                                                   

14:19 – 14:48 Where WHOOP got its start in sports                                       

14:49 – 16:07 impact of travel schedules with athletes                                 

24:04 – 27:37 The sleep cycles WHOOP tracks                                              

27:38 – 35:35 How to apply WHOOP data into daily routine      

35:36 – 38:18 How to interpret strain                                                             

38:19 – 42:23 Adjusting sleep to wake up optimally                                    

42:23 - 45:32  Recovery across different types of training and sports             

45:33 – 48:46 WHOOP calories                                                                    

48:47 – 50:55  How nutrition helps with sleep and recovery                          

55:56 – 51:52 Future tracking goals with WHOOP                                          

51:53 – 54:32  How the WHOOP Strap tracks data                                          

54:33 – 55:52 Wearing WHOOP                                                                      

55:53 – 1:11:55  Going through Anders' data                                                

1:11:56 – 1:15:08  Teams and groups WHOOP works with                   

1:15:09 – 11:16:20 How coaches can use WHOOP                                                

1:16:21 – 1:19:20  How WHOOP calculates HRV                                                     

1:19:21 – 1:27:30   Applying physiology to training plans                                  

1:27:31 – 1:29:17    Training through injury with WHOOP                                      

1:29:18 – 1:30:38  How athletes deal with their WHOOP data day of events           

1:30:39 – 1:34:29     What WHOOP does with collected data        

1:34:30 – 1:41:26   Finishing thoughts and outro  

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Shrugged Collective is a network of fitness, health and performance shows that help people achieve their physical and mental health goals.  Usually in the gym, but outside as well. In 2012 they posted their first Barbell Shrugged podcast and have been putting out weekly free videos and podcasts ever since.

Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

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0:00.0

Shrugged family, we are at Revival Strength. We just wrapped hanging out with Marcus

0:05.4

Philly on the West Coast Swing of the Shrugged World Tour. I just made that up

0:10.2

right now. How much fun is that? Today's show is with Woop. We met these guys down

0:15.6

at Water Paloza and as I say in the interview here, anytime these companies

0:21.6

come over and try and hand us technology that's gonna make you stronger. I'm

0:26.2

always skeptical and this was one of those moments, bit slowly backing away

0:32.2

from the conversation. But they got me. I put the band on and next thing you know

0:37.4

is in Boston interviewing the the owner and the performance director and on top of

0:43.5

that I wear this thing every single day of my life. Now I love checking out

0:46.5

how how what my sleep score was and how my recovery has been from the day.

0:51.9

Really allowing me to make a better decision when I get into the gym on the

0:56.6

intensity and the direction of where my training is going. It's been awesome to

1:02.1

partner up with them and if you get over to Woop.com you will be able to use the

1:06.2

coupon code Shrugged and you're gonna say 15% on the Woop band on top of that.

1:12.8

You're gonna be a part of the Cool Kids Club because now when we walk in I'm

1:16.6

looking at Marcus Philly right now getting ready to do a bunch of filming he's got

1:19.4

one of these sweet Woop bands on. We interviewed Carrie Pierce. She had one of

1:22.8

these sweet Woop bands on. It looks like all the cool kids are wearing them.

1:27.2

So make sure you get over to Woop.com use the coupon code Shrugged. You're going

1:31.2

to save 15% on your order and yeah let us know if you're get get into the

1:38.0

the stories. Take a little picture of how well you're sleeping, how well you're

1:41.0

recovering, which your HRV is and I always like seeing these numbers from

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