Dr. Bob Arnot, author, award-winning TV journalist & champion stand-up paddleboarder shares his secrets for competing with world-class athletes one-third his age.

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

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Author, TV journalist, and world-class paddleboarder at 71 years old, Dr. Bob Arnot discusses his incredible career (3:43), how he discovered WHOOP (9:01) and his tips improving recovery (13:49), being a "Type T" personality (21:50), 3 things that help him sleep anywhere (26:15), the "feed-forward" loop (33:23), preventing your muscles from aging (38:47), which athletes live the longest (43:15), taking up paddleboarding (44:21) and competing in the world championships (47:02), the benefits of...

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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 Woop podcast.
0:21.5	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:27.5	human performance.
0:29.6	Now having recorded about 25 episodes on the Woop podcast, I can truly say it's a great
0:35.4	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,
1:24.6	technology, 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.
1:48.0	I wrote a book called Turning Back the Clock.
1:50.6	I said, you have what are the twin engines of aging.
1:53.4	So think of a twin engine airplane with these two engines turning.
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