Matt O'Keefe, CrossFit super-agent & President of Loud and Live Sports, along with VP of Strategic Development Dylan Malitsky, discuss the events that will shape the future of the sport, plus what WHOOP does for CrossFit athletes and the sport as a whole.

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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

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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CrossFit super-agent and President of Loud and Live Sports, Matt O'Keefe, along with VP of Strategic Development Dylan Malitsky, discuss their backgrounds and how they got to where they are today (5:18), working with Mat Fraser and other top athletes (9:46), lessons for success (14:29), how the sport has evolved in the past 5 years (16:33), the popularity of Wodapalooza and replicating that with other competitions (18:32), event programming and inside information (28:53), if the Games season ...

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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.
0:19.1	Welcome to the Whoop podcast.
0:21.5	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:27.5	human performance.
0:29.6	At Whoop, our clients range from the best professional athletes in the world to Navy Seals,
0:34.3	to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500 CEOs and executives.
0:41.3	The common thread among Woop members is a passion to improve. What does it take to optimize performance for athletes, for humans, really anyone?
0:46.3	And now that we've just launched all-new WOOP-Strap 3.0,
0:50.3	featuring WOOP Live, which takes real-time training and recovery analysis to the next level,
0:57.0	you're going to hear how many of these users are optimizing their body with Whoop and with other things in their life.
1:05.1	On this podcast, we dig deeper.
1:07.2	We interview experts.
1:08.4	We interview industry leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement.
1:13.9	You name it. How can you use data to improve your body? What should you change about your life?
1:19.9	My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion for performance.
1:25.5	With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop podcast.
1:32.5	The last five years have been a really nice time to be in this space, right? Everybody was
1:37.2	sort of in the same boat. It's just a huge group of us all doing the same thing, which is
1:41.4	suffering like crazy to grow something you're passionate in love.
1:44.6	But that's what CrossFit's all about.
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