Don Saladino, trainer to some of the world's most famous actors, shares what it takes to make them look like superheroes.

WHOOP Podcast

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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

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Superhero training Don Saladino talks how he got into fitness (4:12), his first celebrity client (6:03), what a typical 1-hour session involves (8:56), eating to put on muscle (15:54), breathing, visualization & daily gratitude (23:23), why you shouldn't train like Rocky (39:09), under-resting (40:31), how exercising 15 minutes a day can be enough (41:58), getting on WHOOP and using it with his clients (42:34), maximizing sleep quality (45:13), how mood can affect physical appearance (57:...

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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. I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and
0:23.9	CEO of Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. Now having recorded about
0:30.9	25 episodes on the Whoop podcast, I can truly say it's a great lens into understanding how high performers, top performers, do what they do.
0:43.0	At WOOP, our clients range from the best professional athletes in the world, to Navy SEALs, to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500 CEOs and executives.
0:51.4	The common thread among WOOP members is a passion to improve. What does it take to
0:56.0	optimize performance for athletes, for humans, really anyone? And now that we've just launched
1:02.0	all-new Woopstrap 3.0 featuring Woop Live, which takes real-time training and recovery analysis
1:08.7	to the next level, you're going to hear how many of these
1:13.0	users are optimizing their body with whoop and with other things in their life. On this podcast,
1:19.6	we dig deeper. We interview experts. We interview industry leaders across sports, data, technology,
1:25.4	physiology, athletic achievement, you name it. How can you use
1:29.3	data to improve your body? What should you change about your life? My hope is that you'll leave
1:34.3	these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion for performance. With that in mind,
1:39.9	I welcome you to the Whoop Podcast.
1:50.0	99% of the people on this planet, they're not rocky.
1:51.1	They'll never be rocky.
1:53.0	They don't want to be on the cover of a magazine.
1:54.0	Nor do they need to be.
1:55.0	What do they need to be?
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