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WHOOP Podcast

Finding Purpose on the Pitch with Performance Coach Steve Tashjian

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, WHOOP VP of Performance Science, Principal Scientist, Kristen Holmes is joined by performance coach Steve Tashjian. Steve Tashjian is a world-renowned high-performance expert with decades of experience in elite sport, managing teams, and high performers. He has prepared triathletes for the Kona Ironman, boxers for world title fights, teams to play Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Premier League, and the U.S. Men’s Team (USMNT) for the World Cup in 2022. Kristen...

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0:00.0

What's up, folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast. I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of WOOP. We're on a mission to unlock human performance. This week's episode, WOOP, VP of Performance Science, principal scientist.

0:18.1

He won the only Kristen Holmes is joined by performance coach Steve

0:22.4

Tashin.

0:24.4

Steve Tashin is a world-renowned high-performance expert with decades of experience in elite

0:29.1

sport, managing teams, and high performers.

0:32.1

He has prepared triathletes from the Kona Iron Man, Boxers for World Title Fights, and the

0:37.2

U.S. men's national team for the

0:39.4

World Cup in 2022. Kristen and Steve discuss Steve's views on high performance, how he trains

0:46.4

athletes versus how he trains executives and coaches, the keys to performing under pressure,

0:51.8

how to mentally prepare for big moments and challenges,

1:00.0

fighting groupthink in elite organizations and teams, and stories from some of his most successful teams and athletes.

1:02.6

If you have a question was answered on the podcast, email us, podcast.com.

1:06.3

Call us 508-443-4952.

1:09.5

Here are Kristen Holmes and Steve Tashin.

1:14.7

Steve Tashen is a world-renowned high-performance expert with decades of experience in elite sport,

1:21.4

managing teams, and high performers. He has prepared triathletes for the Kona Ironman,

1:26.8

boxers for world title fights, and U.S.

1:29.5

men's national team for the World Cup in 2022.

1:32.8

And Steve was a performance coach for the English Premier League team Everton football

1:37.6

club, which I hear Steve is just a brutal place for everyone to to play to play in that stadium.

1:46.1

Yeah, that was probably the highlight is they're going to move to a new stadium here

1:50.9

pretty soon, which is great for the club, but I consider myself lucky in a way that I was

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