Mike Mancias, trainer to LeBron James, discusses the role recovery plays in keeping his athlete on the court, and why he's been "all-in" on WHOOP since the beginning.

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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

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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LeBron James' long-time athletic trainer Mike Mancias talks about his journey from equipment manager of a small college basketball team to training an all-time great (6:17), working with Tim Grover and Michael Jordan (10:18), durability and post-game recovery (18:52), getting involved with WHOOP (24:27), effects of the NBA lockout in 2010-11 (26:31), what he sees in WHOOP data (27:24), nutrition trends (29:11), his best training tip for the everyday athlete (30:24), recovery methods to combat...

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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.
0:19.7	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 take
0:52.2	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. In 2010, I think we had the
1:23.9	NBA lockout. When we came back from that, it was a short season.
1:29.6	Sometimes we played three games in a row.
1:34.2	And so that's when all of the conversations that we were having on sleep,
1:36.3	all the conversations we had on recovery,
1:38.2	that's when they came into fruition because the team and the athletes that were most recovered
1:40.8	and who got the most rest were the ones that were winning.
1:47.5	What's up, folks? My guest today is Mike Mencius, longtime personal trainer to LeBron James.
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