Golf legend Gary Player shares his thoughts on fitness, health, and happiness.

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Global fitness icon and golf legend Gary Player joins the WHOOP Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about health, life, and happiness. At 85 years old, Gary still works out harder than most people half his age. He shares his philosophies on exercise, nutrition, sleep, and the four factors he believes are key to a long and healthy life. Gary discusses how he got into fitness (3:01), his diet (6:09), sleep and training (10:50), the importance of breathwork (12:58), Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Pa...

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0:00.0	Hello, folks. Welcome back to the WOOP podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop,
0:10.7	where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We've got a great guest this week,
0:16.4	a fitness icon and golf icon. Before we get to him, a reminder, you can use the code Will Ahmed, W-I-L-L-A-H-M-E-D to get 15%
0:27.7	off a W-W-P membership, which comes with hardware, software, analytics.
0:32.5	Whoop is designed to help you improve your health.
0:36.1	Check it out at Woop.com. This week's guest is golf legend Gary
0:41.7	player. Gary is 85 years old and he still trains harder than most 40-year-olds. Gary's been
0:48.1	working out since he was eight years old when his older brother went off to World War II and made
0:53.2	him promise to stay active so he could
0:55.1	pursue his dreams of becoming a professional athlete.
0:58.1	It's a phenomenal story.
1:00.1	So he's been a real pioneer for bringing fitness to professional sports and certainly for bringing
1:06.2	fitness to professional golf.
1:08.4	When he first started lifting weights, most people around the game
1:11.9	of golf questioned whether lifting weights was even good for golf. We discussed Gary's career,
1:17.1	his philosophies on life, fitness, and happiness. That includes how he used visualization to
1:22.7	reach new heights in golf, his four keys to living a long and healthy life, what he's learned about
1:29.4	travel and how he's been able to thrive despite flying over 16 million miles in his life,
1:35.3	his perspective on gratitude and mental health, his thoughts on nutrition, and why he's so
1:40.7	concerned about childhood obesity. This is a big theme for Gary. We touched on it a number of
1:45.9	times. And why adversity is the key to success. He said he used to pray for adversity on the first
1:53.3	team before tournaments, which I thought was a pretty amazing soundbite. There's a lot to enjoy
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