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WHOOP Podcast

Ebenezer Samuel, Fitness Director at Men's Health Magazine, talks learning about training and recovery from pro athletes, keeping up with all the latest workout trends in Manhattan, and putting them to the test through self-experimentation.

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Men's Health Fitness Director Ebenezer Samuel discusses the start to his career in journalism (3:59), unwritten rules for interviewing a star athlete (8:14), learning about fitness from the New York Giants (9:29), coming back from an ACL injury (10:55), his biggest message when it comes to exercise and training (18:10), strategies for putting on muscle (19:59), his favorite gyms and classes in NYC (28:25), getting on WHOOP and #BeYourOwnLabRat (34:56) the afterburn effect (36:58), fitness goa...

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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 Whoop podcast.

1:32.3

I feel like there are a lot of silos in fitness. There's like there are crossfitters and there are bodybuilders and then there are athletes sprinters and they don't we don't always play together or realize like how our training can kind of we're all kind of doing the same thing and we can all play well together.

1:48.1

And so the one thing I try really, really hard to do is merge different ideas.

1:57.7

Hello, folks. Today my guest is Ebenezer Samuel, the fitness director at Men's Health

2:04.3

Magazine. Eb is a certified strength and conditioning specialist with a degree in journalism

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