Marcus Filly, Revival Strength Owner & 6-Time CrossFit Games Competitor, on helping his clients make smart health and fitness decisions, plus optimizing his own performance as an athlete, coach, business owner and father.

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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

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Revival Strength owner and 6-time CrossFit Games competitor Marcus Filly discusses his first exposure to CrossFit and rapid rise to the top of the sport (9:40), why he became a coach (12:07) and what his practice entails (15:57), functional bodybuilding (19:19), cold showers (24:11), his current performance goals (32:09) and how they relate to his WHOOP metrics (34:42), advice for picking the right trainer (41:41), individual coaching vs personal training (43:05), community and coach-client r...

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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.
0:12.9	And that's when we set out to build the technology that we thought could really change the world.
0:19.7	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.
1:07.9	My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater
1:12.6	passion for performance. With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop podcast.
1:22.1	People are killing themselves by eating the wrong stuff and by not moving. And we can fix all this stuff.
1:29.4	And what we're doing in the hospitals, you could alleviate a tremendous amount of the
1:34.6	strain on this economy and the health care system by just working a little bit of
1:40.1	prevention or a little bit of just lifestyle improvement for people.
1:47.3	What's up, folks? Today on the podcast, we've got Marcus Philly, a six-time CrossFit
1:54.5	Games competitor and the owner and founder of Revival Strength Training. Marcus also has a degree in molecular and cellular biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
2:07.4	He left medical school to focus instead on helping people be more fit and live healthier lives.
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