NFL left tackle Kelvin Beachum discusses visualization, overcoming the odds, and finding success in football and in business

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Arizona Cardinals left tackle Kelvin Beachum joins the WHOOP Podcast to detail his journey from 7th-round draft pick to established NFL starter. Kelvin is one of the most thoughtful athletes in sports. He discusses his use of visualization to help achieve his goals, what he’s learned about how to succeed in his career and in life, and why he’s always thinking about what comes next after football. Kelvin dives deep on how he transformed his body to become an offensive lineman (4:03), why he’s ...

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0:00.0	What's up folks? Welcome to the Whoop Podcast. I'm your host Will Ahmed, the founder and CEO of Whoop.
0:12.0	And we are on a mission to unlock human performance. That's right. As you all know, we build wearable technology. That helps better understand the human body we measure sleep recovery
0:22.1	strain more recently we've been focusing on respiratory rate which we've found can be a powerful
0:28.6	predictor during COVID-19 if you'd like to get a WOOP membership you can sign up for 15%
0:35.2	off using the discount code will Ahmed that's W I L-L-L-A-H-M-E-D. I'm going to get to our
0:42.2	guest in half a second, but I just wanted to call out some amazing things that have been going on
0:46.9	in the Woop universe. First of all, I found out that George W-Bush, Mr. President,, is a Woop member. That photo was sent to me by
0:56.9	countless number of Woop members, which I always appreciate. Mr. President, it is an honor to have you on
1:02.4	Woop. We are grateful to have you using our technology. And I don't know if this will make
1:08.2	its way to you. Probably not. But if there's anything I can do for you, I am here and ready.
1:15.1	In case you missed it, we just announced a partnership with the NFL Players Association
1:20.5	to put whoop on every NFL player as they go back to work this season.
1:27.1	Patrick Mahomes was the face of that announcement.
1:30.4	It's very cool to have Patrick on Woop as well. And the NFLPA did a lot of research, frankly,
1:35.2	on respiratory rate, on continuous health monitoring, and really trying to figure out what are some of
1:40.1	the best protocols that they can adopt to make sure NFL players can go back to work
1:46.0	safely. That brings me to my guest, Kelvin Beecham, Arizona Cardinals, left tackle. Kelvin,
1:52.5	someone I've known for years. He's an amazing guy. We actually recorded this podcast together
1:56.9	earlier this year. So pre-COVID-19, this was actually at the NBA All-Star game.
2:02.8	Kelvin and I sat down. And here's a guy, by the way, who went from being the seventh round
2:07.6	draft pick with no guarantees to really establishing himself as a starter in the league.
2:12.8	He's also a prolific angel investor in technology companies. And we talk a lot about how he uses visualization
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