Pro Golfer Nick Watney shares how WHOOP warned him of COVID-19

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

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Pro golfer Nick Watney, the first player on the PGA Tour to be diagnosed with COVID-19, details how his WHOOP data led him to getting tested for the virus. Watney shares how he became alarmed by a sudden rise in his respiratory rate and how he experienced no other symptoms that would have alerted him to the presence of the virus. Nick discusses his current health (3:28), his significant respiratory rate spike (6:05), why he was immediately concerned (7:21), testing positive (9:59), his quick ...

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0:00.0	Hello folks, welcome to the WOOP podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, the founder and CEO of WOOP,
0:10.1	and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We build wearable technology that measures
0:16.1	sleep and recovery and strain. And more recently, and most importantly, it appears, respiratory rate,
0:23.2	which is a very important metric that we're going to talk more about on this podcast.
0:28.3	If you are unfamiliar with WOOP and want to check out our product,
0:31.8	you can join the WOOP membership for 15% off using code Will Ahmed.
0:38.0	That's W-I-L-L-A-H-M-E-D.
0:42.5	Okay, our guest today is Nick Watney.
0:46.5	Nick Watney is a professional golfer on the PGA tour and has been in the news a lot recently
0:53.3	because he was the first professional golfer to test positive
0:57.1	for COVID-19. And this is close to home because Nick Watney is a whoop member. He's been a
1:03.2	whoop member for close to a year now and monitors his whoop statistics daily. And it turns out that
1:10.3	Nick Watney was able to identify that he may have
1:13.8	COVID-19 from looking at his whoop data. We go into great detail talking about that experience he had.
1:20.4	Frankly, it's a little surreal talking to him about it for us because it's so wild. Here's a professional
1:26.3	golfer who literally is at the tournament.
1:29.4	He tests negative on a Tuesday.
1:31.6	And then on Thursday, he wakes up with a 1% recovery.
1:36.6	His body's run down.
1:37.9	He feels no symptoms.
1:39.7	Plays his round the next day he sees on his whoop data a huge jump from 14 to 18 on his respiratory rate.
1:49.3	And that causes him to say, hey, I should get tested for COVID-19.
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