Kevin Kit Parker, Mad Scientist of Harvard, on being in a firefight, designing the perfect dress, improving sleep, vacation optimization, plus dinner with Kanye & Larry Page.

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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WHOOP Founder & CEO Will Ahmed talks to Harvard Professor and U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Kit Parker about the science of counterinsurgency (5:12), creating irresistible fashion (11:15), art's impact on science (29:14), how your body reacts to being in a firefight (45:48), improving sleep in the military (1:00:06), vacation optimization (1:12:14), privacy and data security (1:30:40), travel tips and life hacks (1:37:27), and the most creative person he's ever met (1:42:50). Suppo...

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0:00.0	We discovered that there were secrets that your body was trying to tell you that could really help you optimize performance.
0:10.6	But no one could monitor those things.
0:13.2	And that's when we set out to build the technology that we thought could really change the world.
0:19.6	Welcome to the WOOP podcast.
0:21.8	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:27.1	human performance.
0:29.2	At WOOP, we measure the body 24-7 and provide analytics to our members to help improve performance.
0:35.9	This includes strain, recovery, and sleep. Our clients range
0:40.4	for 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
0:52.0	take to optimize performance for athletes, for humans,
0:55.5	really anyone? We're launching a podcast to dig deeper. We'll interview experts and industry
1:01.2	leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement, you name it.
1:07.7	When I founded Whoop, I didn't know exactly where it would take me, and hosting a podcast
1:11.6	was certainly not one of the first things on my mind. In the process, though, I've gotten to
1:16.7	interact with amazing athletes, advisors, investors, and had some really fascinating conversations,
1:23.1	and that was a lot of the inspiration for starting this podcast. I think there's something about this format, this type of conversation that really allows you to delve deeper.
1:32.4	My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion for performance.
1:38.3	With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop Podcast.
1:50.9	You never know who you're going to find in our lab.
1:59.1	We've got people in there doing paintings, making dresses, engineering meat, working on heart valves for children, working on brain injury, other kinds of pediatric diseases.
2:04.5	You might see L.O.R.R.ch, Adidas, Nike, Pfizer, Merck.
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