What's up, folks?

Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we sit down with top athletes, researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak.

And what you can do to unlock your own best performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and

CEO of Whoop, or we are on a mission to unlock human performance. Now, we got a great guest

for you this week, NASCAR driver Eric Almorola. But before I get to Eric, I want to talk a little

bit about some Whoop news. We announced this week that Woop raised $200 million in a new

financing, valuing the business at $3.6 billion. Woop is now the most valuable wearables business

in the world, which is pretty amazing. And I want to thank all of our Woop members out there,

especially the ones listening right now. Thank you so much for believing in

our mission and wearing whoop and continuing to support the company. Okay, second announcement.

We're excited to share that next week on September 8th at 12 p.m. Eastern Time, I'll be hosting the

first ever Woop Unlocked, a live virtual event you won't want to miss.

You can tune in to hear from some of the best athletes and thought leaders in the world.

You're going to hear about some of the groundbreaking research that we're doing.

And I think what you'll all be most excited by is new Woop technology that we are rolling out this is going to be really exciting i don't want

to spoil it but just trust me you're going to want to be there for this it's great great great new

technology uh you can head over to unlock dot whoop dot com to rsvp for that and without further ado let's get

back to eric Almerolo.

So Eric shares firsthand what it's like to be in the NASCAR driver's seat and manage the

physical and mental strains that come with being a professional driver. And get ready,

we're bringing Woop live to NASCAR. So you can see the type of toll racing takes on the drivers. If you were watching last

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