Kristen Holmes, WHOOP VP of Performance and NCAA Champion Coach talks helping elite athletes sleep and recover, plus all the tips & tricks she uses to optimize her own performance.

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Kristen Holmes, Vice President of Performance at WHOOP, former Team USA field hockey player and national champion coach at Princeton University discusses how her coaching philosophies evolved (9:09), the physiological and psychological factors of performance (15:10), advising the world's best athletes (31:05) and what they've learned from WHOOP data (39:20), Moneyball 2.0 (45:39), the vital importance of sleep (21:40), including blocking blue light (55:10), creating the right environment (56:...

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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 for
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
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.
1:07.8	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.
1:23.2	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.
1:46.4	As long as you're aware of what the optimal choice is,
1:51.0	there's no reason why you can't be the best version of yourself pretty consistently.
1:59.9	My guest today is Kristen Holmes.
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