Dr. Jordan Shallow, performance coach, chiropractor, and competitive powerlifter talks injury prevention, maximizing the value of your training, and breathing as a gateway to the autonomic nervous system.

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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

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Powerlifter Jordan Shallow, aka "The Muscle Doc," discusses the ins and outs of his sport (6:49), why controlled breathing is so important (9:30), the process of dropping 30 pounds for a weigh-in (15:44), understanding the difference between strength and stability (24:09), how to dislocate a shoulder (26:43), what he's learned from various injuries and how he's recovered without surgery (33:11), flexibility vs. mobility (41:20), breathing as a gateway to the autonomic nervous system (52:09), ...

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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. You name it.
1:15.0	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.
1:25.5	With that in mind, I welcome you to the WOOP podcast.
1:32.8	Whether it's skill acquisition and sport, whether it's, you know, motor learning or
1:37.8	strength output or stability or any sort of adaptation you're trying to make, you're making
1:41.7	that change at the level of the nervous system, right? So being able to utilize your breath and understand this variability and heart rate as a marker,
1:50.5	albeit in a multivariate system, I think is really interesting.
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