Kate Courtney, Mountain Bike World Champion, shares everything she’s done to reach the pinnacle of her sport.

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

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Defending mountain bike world champion Kate Courtney talks about her intro to the sport (3:10) and incredible rise to the top (8:06), her love of data (11:37) and meditation (15:45), recovery as a life skill (21:52), fueling with waffles (23:57), training and functional overreaching (28:37), her nap routine (35:18), workouts in the gym (39:01) and not fearing strength on the bike (44:08), pre-bed recovery (49:48), sleep habits and environment (57:39), travel advice (1:08:54), a typical day's ...

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0:19.7	Welcome to the WOOP podcast.
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0:27.1	human performance.
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0:40.5	the best professional athletes in the world, to Navy Seals, to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500
0:46.1	CEOs and executives. The common thread among WOOP members is a passion to improve. What does it
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1:01.2	leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement, you name it.
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1:12.6	passion for performance. With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop podcast. I will also note
1:23.3	to begin that in the realm of people focusing on data, I'm like way far in the extremes.
1:29.7	Like I love it.
1:30.7	It's really motivating for me.
1:32.3	I think some people think it distracts from the love of the bike, but I think for me it's part of it.
1:38.5	And part of what I love about cycling is the ability to focus on these things and make progress.
1:47.6	Hello. cycling is the ability to focus on these things and make progress. Hello, folks. My guest today is Mountain Bike World Champion Kate Courtney.
1:54.1	Last year, Kate won the 2018 UCI World Championships, despite being the youngest competitor in the field, just 22 years old.
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