What's up, folks? Welcome back to the Whoop Podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of

Whoop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. If you're thinking about joining

whoop, you can literally try Whoop for free. That's at whoop.com. On this week's episode, I am joined

by three-time Olympic gold medalist

Vincent Hancock. The former sergeant in the U.S. Army marksmanship unit earned the National

Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, among other service accolades.

He was the first person to win back-to-back gold medals in skeet shooting when he took home gold in Beijing and London.

He's also the first person to win four world championship titles in men's skeet, and he wears who.

Vincent and I discuss the sport of skeet shooting and how Vincent got started, getting recruited to the U.S. Army Marksman unit, Vincent's training program and his competition process,

the power of entering into a flow state. This was particularly fascinating, how Vincent uses his

whoop and competing at the Olympics and what to expect in Paris. If you have a question once he

answered on the podcast, email us, podcasturop.com. Call us 508-443-49-5-2, and we will answer your

questions on a future episode. Without further ado, here is my conversation with skeet shooting

legend Vincent Hancock. Vincent, welcome to the Loop Podcast. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

Excited to do this. You have a fascinating life and career. So you grew up in Georgia, and it must have been at a young age that you got a gun in your hands.

It was. I mean, I grew up in the middle of nowhere, Georgia, too, a very small town, Eatanton. And so I remember when I was probably three or four years old, my dad and my brother were both competitive shooters.

And so my dad had a BB gun in my hand pretty shortly, pretty quickly, and just shooting cans and doing all kinds of stuff like that.

And then it kind of morphed into when I was about 10, he took me out to the skeet field for the first time.

And I got to shoot a clay target. Now watch it explode whenever I actually hit it and then kind of progressed

from there. And I didn't even know that shooting was an Olympic sport for the first two years of

me shooting. And then kind of just went crazy once I found out, hey, this is an Olympic sport.

Let's do this. What age were you when people were like, hey, this is an Olympic sport. Let's do this.

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