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WHOOP Podcast

PGA Champion Justin Thomas on using disappointment to fuel success and how WHOOP helps him perform

WHOOP Podcast

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

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

World No. 4 golfer Justin Thomas joins the WHOOP Podcast to talk about the highs and lows of his career, and how WHOOP helps him train, sleep and perform better. Justin discusses his upbringing and how his dad and grandfather inspired him to be a golfer (3:09), his friendly rivalry with Jordan Spieth and battling it out for the 2012 NCAA National Championship (10:50), seeking advice from Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Brady (14:42), taking lessons from disappointment (18:15), his friendsh...

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0:00.0

Hello, folks. Welcome to the Whoop podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, the founder and CEO of

0:11.1

Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We build wearable technology

0:18.2

across hardware and software and analytics. It's designed to help you

0:22.1

better understand your body. So we measure things like sleep and recovery and stress. And we use

0:27.8

this podcast as an opportunity to talk to high performing individuals about all the things that

0:33.1

they do to improve their performance. We certainly have a high performing guest this week, Justin Thomas,

0:40.2

the number four golfer in the world, and we're going to get to him in just a second. I want to talk

0:46.2

briefly about the events going on in the United States and just let our listeners and our members

0:51.9

know that we at Woop condemn racism.

0:54.5

We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement.

0:57.7

We've donated to the Equal Justice Initiative, which is working to provide ongoing financial support to organizations that support racial equality and social justice.

1:10.3

We've done a number of things internally,

1:13.0

including unconscious bias training, including promotions of whoop jobs on more diverse

1:21.3

platforms so that we continue to try to get the most diverse applicant pool into our organization.

1:28.9

And look, there's many more things to do. I think all leaders right now should be trying to do everything they can. We should

1:34.5

be listening and we should be evolving to support the Black Lives Matter movement. And to our guest,

1:41.9

Justin Thomas, world-class golfer, long-time whoop member, been using the

1:48.0

product for a long time. And we go deep on how he got into golf, his upbringing. It turns out

1:53.1

both his dad and grandfather were professional golfers. His relationship with Tiger Woods,

1:58.9

why he leans on people like Tiger, Jack, Nicholas, even

2:02.0

Tom Brady for advice, how he's learned from disappointment in his career and how that's fueled

2:07.6

him for success. And how he discovered whoop through his buddy, Rory McElroy, also a

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