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WHOOP Podcast

Pierre-Henri Chuet, fighter pilot turned entrepreneur, discusses the mental state necessary to succeed in combat missions, and how he applies the lessons learned to the business world.

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Combat pilot turned entrepreneur Pierre-Henri "Ate" Chuet talks about becoming Europe's youngest pilot at age 15 (4:54), his first aircraft carrier landing (7:10), turning anxiety into fuel (12:45), the impact flying has on your brain and body (18:10), his thoughts on the movie Top Gun (18:56), preventing mistakes in the air (25:25), combat mission preparation (33:10), what it's like to eject (36:40), how suffering a stroke at age 31 changed his life for the better (44:38), getting ...

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0:00.0

We discovered that there were secrets that your body was trying to tell you that could really help you optimize performance.

0:10.6

But no one could monitor those things.

0:13.2

And that's when we set out to build the technology that we thought could really change the world.

0:19.1

Welcome to the Whoop podcast.

0:21.5

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

0:27.5

human performance.

0:29.6

At Whoop, our clients range from the best professional athletes in the world to Navy Seals,

0:34.3

to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500 CEOs and executives.

0:41.3

The common thread among Woop members is a passion to improve. What does it take to optimize performance for athletes, for humans, really anyone?

0:46.3

And now that we've just launched all-new WOOP-Strap 3.0,

0:50.3

featuring WOOP Live, which takes real-time training and recovery analysis to the next level,

0:57.0

you're going to hear how many of these users are optimizing their body with Whoop and with other things in their life.

1:05.1

On this podcast, we dig deeper.

1:07.2

We interview experts.

1:08.4

We interview industry leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement.

1:13.9

You name it.

1:15.0

How can you use data to improve your body?

1:17.5

What should you change about your life?

1:19.9

My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion for performance.

1:25.5

With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop podcast.

1:32.3

Part of the training is getting to understand how you work as a human being and how you

1:36.8

work under stress. So you're going to be stressed a lot and you're going to learn how you

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