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WHOOP Podcast

Olympian Gabby Thomas discusses consistency, visualization, and the mental side of running

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Gabby Thomas is one of the fastest women on earth and is a two-time Olympic medalist, but she’s so much more than just an athlete. Gabby graduated from Harvard, where she studied neurobiology and global health, and is currently studying for her Master’s degree in epidemiology at the University of Texas at Austin, all while maintaining her elite training schedule. Gabby joins the WHOOP Podcast to discuss her journey to running (2:12), how the difference between peak performance and poor perfor...

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0:00.0

What's up, folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with top athletes,

0:09.7

researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform

0:14.2

at their peak on and off the field and what you can do to unlock your own best performance.

0:20.6

I'm your host, Will Amit, founder and CEO of Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock

0:24.6

human performance.

0:26.8

We've got a great guest this week.

0:29.0

Gabby Thomas.

0:31.0

Gabby's one of the best runners on the planet.

0:32.8

Recently just brought home a silver and bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

0:37.3

And what's also amazing about

0:39.1

Gabby is she was one of our early whoop users and testers when she was actually a student at Harvard.

0:45.7

That's right. She graduated from Harvard where she studied neurobiology and global health,

0:50.3

so that's not a joke, and is currently studying for her master's degree and epidemiology at

0:55.8

the University of Texas at Austin. She discusses what she's learned about the importance of

1:00.8

consistency. The role who plays in her training and recovery, she had some great insights into

1:06.7

optimizing for recovery, her experience at the Olympics, dealing with the health scare before the

1:13.0

Olympic trials and how that powered her performance to make the Olympic team. The role visualization

1:17.7

plays in her success and why she's passionate about public health. A reminder, you can get on

1:25.5

whoop. If you use the code will, you'll get 15% off. That's just W ILL.

1:30.2

And we have an all new 4.0 available to reserve now. All right. Without further ado, here is

1:36.8

Gabby Thomas. Okay, Gabby, welcome to the WOOP podcast. Oh, thank you. Thanks for having me on here.

1:46.1

So you've had an amazing career at quite a young age. You're 24 years old.

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