Ginny Thrasher, Gold Medalist in the sport of air rifle, talks about the dedication and mindset necessary to go from beginner to Olympic champion in just 5 years.

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Olympic Gold Medalist Ginny Thrasher discusses how she took up the sport of air rifle (4:18), going from a beginner to an Olympic champion in only 5 years (8:59), the research she did as a West Virginia University student that led to her getting on WHOOP (14:33), increasing accuracy by lowering resting heart rate (15:53), her Ted Talk and the growth mindset (21:34), affirmations and journaling (23:44), mantra-mindfulness (24:49), HRV's affect on shooting (30:33), what improves her sleep (34:5...

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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.
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1:32.3	What I really appreciate most about my sport is what matters most is effort, not gender,
1:40.2	not how tall you are or how strong you are, how much deliberate practice are you putting out there.
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1:51.6	And that's why my sport is, in my opinion, one of the best.
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