Neen Williams, Professional Street Skater, on being a high-performance athlete and extending his career as long as possible.

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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

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Professional street skater Neen Williams discusses how he got into skateboarding (3:08) and becoming a pro (4:31), the most "normal" job he ever had (5:31), a moment of clarity that changed his life (8:55), how he uses WHOOP (14:28), the strain of skateboarding (17:06), what makes him an artist (18:35), risk assessment when attempting tricks (19:47), diet and nutrition (23:03), sleep and recovery (24:44), advice for his 18-year-old self (32:34), his positive outlook and embracing the dark tim...

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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
0:52.0	take 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.
1:21.6	There's like a couple different kinds of skateboarding, the usual household skateboarding where it's
1:26.2	like the X games, and then there's
1:28.3	street skating. You don't really know about us as much because we're more of like the raw
1:34.0	culture skateboarding, the guys that you see on the streets and stuff. Basically, the skateboard is
1:39.6	our paintbrush, and then the world is our canvas.
1:48.7	How are we doing today, folks?
1:54.2	My guest today is professional skateboarder Neen Williams.
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