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

athletes, researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world they're doing to perform at their peak and what you can do to unlock your own best performance.

I'm your host Will Amit, founder and CEO of Woop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

We have a great guest this week, an inspiring guest.

This week's episode features one of the most successful athletes of all time, Tatiana McFadden.

She has 20 Paralympic medals, including eight gold medals, 24 world major marathon wins, including four consecutive grand slam.

So this is pretty amazing.

First place in Boston, Chicago, New York City, and London in the same year.

And has broken five world records in track and field.

We definitely dive into all of Tatiana's success as an

athlete and a performer, but I have to call out just how inspiring her background is, too.

She was born in Russia, raised in Baltimore. She was born with spina bifida, a congenital

disorder that paralyzed her from the waist down.

And for the first six years of her life, she had to walk on her hands because the orphanage she was in was too poor to afford a wheelchair for her.

Tatiana and I sit down to discuss how she went from living in an orphanage in Russia to excelling as a young

athlete in the States, what her training schedule looks like and what it demands of her body,

which recovery techniques have helped her take on an aggressive competition and training

schedule, how she continues to advocate for the inclusion of all athletes in sport, especially

fitting as we close out Disability Pride Month this July, and what it took to recover from a

potentially career-ending blood clotting condition, and how she uses whoop to fine tune her performance.

Tatiana is an amazing guest. We're going to get you in half a second.

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