Dr. Kevin Sprouse, leading sports doctor, shares how WHOOP helps his athletes conquer the Tour de France

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dr. Kevin Sprouse is one of the leading sports medicine and exercise physiology experts in the country. He works with some of the best athletes on the planet, including baseball and football players, Olympians, and some of the top golfers on the PGA Tour. Kevin is also the medical director for EF Pro Cycling, one of the top 10 cycling teams in the world. WHOOP is the official wearable of EF and Dr. Sprouse shares how his team is using WHOOP data science to monitor rider well-being and to help...

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0:00.0	What's up, folks? Welcome to the Whoop podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, the founder and CEO of Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. What does Whoop do? We build wearable technology. We measure things like sleep and recovery and stress. We help you become a better version of
0:22.7	yourself. At least that's our mission. And you can find the technology at woup.com. If you don't
0:28.8	have a WOOP membership, you can get 15% off your W-W-M-M-M-M-M-Ship by using the code Will
0:34.9	W-I-L-L-A-H-M-E-D.
0:40.0	This week's guest is a brilliant leader in sports, medicine, and exercise physiology.
0:46.7	Dr. Kevin Spouse, he works with some of the best athletes on the planet,
0:51.8	including baseball and football players, Olympians,
0:54.7	some of the top professional golfers on the PGA tour. And particularly relevant right now, Kevin is also the
1:01.6	medical director for the EF pro cycling team, which is one of the top 10 cycling teams in the
1:06.7	world and competing right now in the tour to France. So he is actively using Woop right now on
1:14.1	his athletes at the Tour to France. Woop is proud to be the official wearable of EF. That's a partnership
1:20.4	we just announced in the past few days. And we're excited to be helping the EF team train and recover
1:27.1	during the Tour to France. Kevin and I discuss
1:31.1	why he got into this particular field of medicine, the critical role data plays in training
1:37.1	elite cyclists, and really a lot of different sports. We go deep on a bunch of different sports.
1:42.5	Why the pill for every ill mindset is misguided,
1:46.5	his tips and tricks for optimizing performance, and how he uses Woop in his own life and why he
1:52.7	recommends it to his patients. I think Kevin has a really insightful point of view on Woop and more
1:58.3	broadly sports medicine. And without further ado, here is
2:02.3	Kevin. Kevin, welcome to the WOOP podcast. Hey, Will, thanks. It's good to be here. So how would you
2:11.9	describe what it is that you do? That's a good question. Jump jumping right into it. So I'm I'm a sports medicine
2:18.6	physician, but probably not what most people think of as a typical sports medicine doc. I trained
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