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The Ready State Podcast

Kristen Holmes: Improving Circadian Behaviors, Tracking, and Leveraging Wearable Data

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9623 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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As Vice President of Performance Science and Principal Scientist at Whoop, Kristen Holmes blends her academic and applied background in athletics, coaching, performance technology, psychology, and exercise physiology to drive research, education, partnership, and product development initiatives to strengthen WHOOP as a leader in Human Performance. Kristen's research is focused on understanding the effect of sleep, circadian, recovery, and load behaviors on our physical, mental, and emotional resilience.

Kristen was a 3x All American, 2x Big 10 Athlete of the year at the University of Iowa, competing in both Field Hockey and Basketball, and a 2021 University of Iowa Hall of Fame Inductee. 7-year member of the U.S. National Field Hockey Team and one of the most successful coaches in Ivy League history, having won 12 league titles in 13 seasons and a National Championship at Princeton University.

We love having the ability to track our data with wearable technology, but often wonder how the large amount of data being collected can be used to help the general population. Kristen's background in sport and coaching gives her a unique perspective while running performance science at Whoop and we really enjoyed understanding how we can all use data to track and improve the behaviors that will serve our health and fitness goals.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett.

0:06.8

And I'm Juliette.

0:08.3

And you're listening to the Ready State podcast.

0:15.6

We're excited to welcome Kristen Holmes to the podcast today.

0:20.0

As vice president of performance science

0:22.2

and principal scientist at Woop, Kristen blends her academic and implied backgrounds in athletics,

0:28.4

coaching, performance technology, psychology, and exercise physiology to drive research,

0:34.7

education, partnership, and product development initiatives to strengthen

0:38.8

WOOP as a leader in human performance.

0:41.4

Kristen's research is focused on understanding the effect of sleep, circadian, recovery,

0:45.8

and load behaviors on our physical, mental, and emotional resilience.

0:50.8

Kristen was a three-time All-American, two-time Big Ten athlete of the year at the University of Iowa,

0:56.4

competing in both field hockey and basketball, and a 2021 University of Iowa Hall of Fame inductee.

1:03.1

She was a seven-year member of the U.S. national field hockey team and one of the most successful

1:08.0

coaches in Ivy League history, having won 12 league titles in 13

1:12.0

seasons and a national championship at Princeton University. And I'll just kick this off by saying

1:17.6

that we have been really looking forward to having Kristen on and honestly a representative from

1:23.5

the wearable space on the Ready State podcast because you and I are fans of wearables.

1:28.4

We've been testing all of them out over the years. And we'd love to test and track data.

1:32.9

But I think more importantly, it's super interesting because these companies are collecting a massive

1:37.5

amount of really interesting data on some of our most important health behaviors.

1:42.4

Yeah. And really, one of the things that I appreciate is that

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