What's up folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast. We're on a mission to unlock human performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop. All right, we got a good one. This week's episode, WOOP VP of Performance Science, principal scientist, Kristen Holmes, is joined by Dr. Kate Ackerman.

Dr. Ackerman is the founder and director of the Wu Sai Female Athlete Program, Boston Children's Hospital,

and biennial International Female Athlete Conference, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The sports medicine expert focuses her research on female athlete health

and is currently the chair of the U.S. Rowing Medical Committee

and a member of the World Rowing Medical Commission.

She's authored or co-authored over 100 articles

and book chapters related to sports medicine,

endocrinology, rowing, bone health, and female athletes, including position statements with

the International Olympic Committee.

Kristen and Dr. Ackerman discuss Kate's experience as a student athlete, she actually walked on as a rower at Cornell,

eventually winning a national championship.

Understanding athletes and their stresses.

Talking about mental health and how it's okay.

The Wu-Sai female athlete program.

Recovering from a major injury or setback, having to find other

passions to take your mind away from the sport when you are injured, behaviors that can lead

to Reds, that's relative energy deficiency. This is very interesting. They can lead to injuries,

so it's important to know how to prevent them.

And lifestyle tips and things outside of training that help set an athlete up for success.

If you're new to WOOP, you can use the code Will, that's WI-L when you're checking out.

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