Patrick Mahomes discusses his WHOOP strain, visualizing victory, and why he almost didn't play football.

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes sits down for a wide ranging discussion on strain, recovery, and peak performance. Patrick shares his WHOOP data with Will Ahmed and they examine just what kind of toll the NFL season takes on the human body. Patrick also shares how his father's baseball career inspired him to become a professional athlete (3:01), why he almost picked other sports over football (5:21), how visualization and mindset play a key role in his success (10:04), the advice Tom Brad...

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0:00.0	What's up, folks?
0:06.0	Welcome to the WOOP podcast.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Will Amid, founder and CEO of WOOP, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:12.8	human performance.
0:15.1	We got a hell of a guest today, the face of the NFL.
0:18.2	We're going to give to him in half a second.
0:20.2	First, I want to remind you,
0:21.1	you can get on whoop. If you use the code Will Ahmed, W-I-L-L-A-H-M-E-D, 15% off a W-W-M-Manship,
0:29.0	that includes hardware, software analytics, and it's designed to help you improve your health.
0:35.2	Measure sleep, measure recovery, measure strain, just like the world's best
0:39.5	athletes and just like everyday consumers who are improving their health. Speaking of world-class
0:44.4	athletes, we welcome Patrick Mahomes this week to the WOOP podcast. And we cover a lot of ground on his
0:52.2	life, everything about his whoop data over the course
0:55.3	of the NFL season, and really how he manages the mental side of the game.
1:00.4	To my knowledge, this is the first long-form podcast that Patrick Holmes has ever done.
1:05.5	At least I couldn't find one in doing research on him.
1:08.3	So I found it pretty fascinating.
1:09.9	He talks about how his father's 11-year
1:12.5	career in Major League Baseball inspired him to become an athlete, but he himself almost won a
1:18.2	completely different direction. He was encouraged to quit football in high school. I don't know
1:22.2	how many people even knew that, to focus on baseball and basketball. And he says he didn't even know
1:27.4	who's going to pursue
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