What's up, folks?

Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop.

And we're going to dive right in.

This week's episode, Woop VP of Performance Science, Principal Scientist, Fearless, Kristen Holmes, is joined by Rachel Vickery.

Rachel works with high performers in professional and elite sport, an elite military who need to do big and difficult things, where the stakes are high and the impact is significant.

Now she is working as a high-performance consultant, optimizing the physiological

stress response so good people can execute when it matters and sustain long careers in those

environments. Rachel is also a qualified sports physiotherapist, a former international

representative gymnast, a performance ambassador for leaders in sports, and has co-founded

two digital health startups. Kristen and Rachel will discuss learning how to perform under pressure.

Rachel actually talks about her time as a professional gymnast. The power of interoception.

How cold therapy can be used as a mental coaching exercise preparing to be in the arena as a high

performer breathing mechanics and performance rachel actually shares a story about a professional

golfer she helped fall back in love with the sport and how to set yourself up for success

if you have a question you want to see answered on the

podcast, email us, podcast, whoop.com. Call us 508-443-4952. Without further ado, here are Kristen Holmes

and Rachel Vickery. So people need to perform in high-pressure situations, whether it's on the

field of play, in the boardroom, in the operating room, or making a toast at a wedding.

We all have moments that feel high stakes.

Today, we're going to leverage the amazing Rachel and her expertise to help us understand the science behind pressure and how we can create an infrastructure to enable us to show up

when the stakes are high. Rachel, welcome. Thank you, Kristen. Thanks for having me here.

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