Naps: Kristen Holmes and Emily Capodilupo discuss the physical and mental benefits to napping, the concept of sleep debt and how naps help offset it, plus how to incorporate your activities & day strain into planning the timing and duration of your naps.

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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

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Your greatest recovery amplifier: Naps. Kristen Holmes and Emily Capodilupo break down the value of napping on rest days (4:11), how naps maximize the quality of your training (7:03) and improve cognitive functioning (8:15), what you can gain from 3 minutes of slow wave sleep (9:23), why a 30-minute nap is only good sometimes (10:53) and why you should avoid napping for too long (12:50), the benefits of napping in between workouts (14:28), the napachino (15:10), the best time to sleep during ...

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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.
0:18.8	Welcome to the Whoop podcast.
0:21.2	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:27.2	human performance.
0:29.1	At Woop, our clients range from the best professional athletes in the world to Navy SEALs,
0:33.8	to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500 CEOs and executives.
0:36.7	The common threat among
0:38.1	WOOP members is a passion to improve. What does it take to optimize performance for athletes,
0:43.1	for humans, really anyone? On this podcast, we dig deeper. We interview experts. We interview
0:48.9	industry leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement, you name it. How can you use
0:55.9	data to improve your body? What should you change about your life? My hope is that you'll leave
1:01.0	these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion for performance. With that in mind,
1:06.2	I welcome you to the Whoop podcast. Hello again, Kristen Holmes here, VP of Performance Science, and with me today, direct to the Whoop Podcast. Hello again.
1:11.4	Kristen Holmes here, VP of Performance Science and with me today, Director of Data Science
1:15.8	and Research, Emily Capital Lupo.
1:17.4	Hi, Kristen.
1:18.2	I really hope you guys are not getting sick of us out there, whoop listeners.
1:22.1	Whether you like it or not, you're stuck with us for today.
1:25.3	We are going to continue the January theme of restolutions
1:28.4	by taking a deep dive into naps. So we all know sleep experts out there would agree with a
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