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WHOOP Podcast

How to Optimize Nutrition with Registered Sports Dietician, Angie Asche

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this month's edition of the WHOOP Podcast How To Series, WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance, Principal Scientist, Dr. Kristen Holmes sits down with Registered Sports Dietician, Angie Asche to explore what it really means to fuel for performance as an athlete. Angie has worked with a variety of professional athletes in the MLB, NHL and more, optimizing their nutrition habits to perform at their peak. Angie outlines the importance of prioritizing the three macronutrients – carbohydrates,...

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0:00.0

Technically, even if you're maintaining your weight or even if you're gaining weight, you can actually

0:04.3

still be underfueled. And it's really just a matter of that nutrient timing and not fueling your

0:09.9

body in key moments when it needs it most. That can be underfueling. So you are starting your practice

0:15.8

or your game or whatever else underfueled. And that in turn can impact your performance.

0:20.2

Let's try to at least

0:21.1

get some of the right nutrients and by the right nutrients, carbohydrates, protein, pre, during,

0:25.9

and post. If we can at least get the timing spot on with that, then you'll see a world of a

0:30.8

difference with performance, with recovery, sleep, all of it.

0:35.6

Angie Ashy, welcome.

0:38.7

Thank you for having me.

0:40.3

I'm so damn pumped to talk to you.

0:46.5

You have such just a really interesting mix of experience, both with men athletes and female athletes.

0:47.4

And we're just going to dig in to all of it today.

0:49.4

I'm excited.

0:50.0

You ready to go?

0:50.6

Yes.

0:51.0

All right.

0:51.3

We're going to start with a little rapid fire icebreaker, which we'll come back to a lot of these, but feel free to, you know, expand at any point.

1:00.2

So true or false.

1:02.1

Eating too little is more common than eating too much in high performers.

1:06.6

True.

1:08.1

You should eat differently depending on where you are in your menstrual cycle.

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