How a Surfer Survived Being Stranded in the Open Sea

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Serious surfers train themselves to be ready for difficult moments: a brutal wipeout, being held down underwater by waves, losing a board and being forced swim a mile to shore. Then there are the kinds of experiences that nobody is really prepared for, like getting pushed out to sea by winds or currents and set adrift where nobody can see you. To get through that scenario alive, you need extraordinary fortitude. In this episode, we revisit one of the most surprising tales we’ve ever told on the Outside Podcast. We imagined what it might take to survive being alone for days on a surfboard in the open water—and then found someone who endured exactly that. This episode was brought to you by Whoop, the fitness tracker that gets you training smarter by giving you feedback on every moment of your day. Learn more about how Whoop can help you reach your potential by training and recovering smarter at join.whoop.com.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Whoop,
0:03.5	the fitness tracker that gets you training smarter
0:06.0	by giving you feedback on every moment of your day.
0:09.0	Whether you're an elite athlete or just someone looking to get in better shape. The truth is that your
0:14.4	workouts are only one part of a fitness routine. To beat your true potential, you need to
0:19.3	understand what's going on with your body all the time. You know, your competitive advantage is in your downtime.
0:25.6	And if you're not measuring the impact of your downtime,
0:29.6	you're simply missing a massive piece of the performance puzzle.
0:33.6	That's Kristen Holmes, a former member of the US
0:36.4	National Field Hockey team and also one of the most successful coaches
0:40.0	in Ivy League history.
0:41.6	She's now the vice president of Performance Science at Woop.
0:44.7	And as she explains it, many athletes make the mistake
0:47.8	of working out based simply on how they feel,
0:50.4	or what their training schedule says they're supposed to do that day.
0:53.8	The problem with this is that we're not reacting to our actual physiological state, which is determined
0:59.2	by many factors.
1:00.8	How you're eating, how you're hydrating, you know, are you buffering stress and rest throughout the day?
1:06.0	What does your sleep look like? Are you getting into deeper stages of sleep?
1:10.0	All of these things are massively influential on how you're going to show up tomorrow.
1:15.0	Whoop allows you to easily track all of these variables.
1:18.0	It's a lightweight 100% waterproof wrist wrist strap that calculates recovery, strain, and sleep metrics
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Outside Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Outside Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.