What's up, folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with top athletes,

researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at

their peak. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, and we are on a mission to unlock

human performance.

Today, I am joined by rock climbing legend Alex Honnold. You probably know Alex from the

incredible Netflix documentary Free Solo, where Alex scaled the famous El Capitan mountain face

3,000 feet in the air with no ropes. We caught up with Alex as he's now

a father of two and he's got a new adventure ahead of him. It will be the hardest climb he's ever

done. Alex and I discuss what he's been up to lately. He just welcomed his second child. He's

cycled from Colorado to Alaska. He's welcomes his second child. He's cycled from Colorado to

Alaska. He's got a new National Geographic series. How Alex views free soloing and consequence.

This is pretty fascinating. He goes deep on the differences between risk and consequence,

how you should think about it in your own life. His new challenge and why he chose this route, the 9A climb, and improving

throughout his climbing career. A lot of different mental models and ways to think about improving.

He goes deep on his journal, everything that he does to improve performance.

If you a question, you want to see answered on this podcast, email us podcast podcast to whoop.com. Call us 508-443-4952. And without further ado, here's my conversation

with rock climbing legend, Alex Honnold. Alex, welcome back to the Whoop podcast. Thanks for

having me. So it's been, it's been a little while,

and you just welcomed a new addition to the family. Two weeks now. Indeed. Yeah, it's exactly two

weeks. No, two weeks in a day. It's, uh, yeah, we're just starting to settle in a little bit.

Second child. Second child. Yeah, we're just starting to settle in a little bit. Second child.

Second child.

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