Robert Moeller, Veteran Navy SEAL, talks about the training and preparation necessary to compete in an event that pushed the boundaries of human performance.

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Robert Moeller, Veteran Navy SEAL, discusses competing in the first-ever Specter Series event, a skydive, swim, and 100-mile run. In Part 1, he talks about becoming a SEAL (4:06), including BUD/S training (6:38), Hell Week (10:30), his first mission (18:42), and the Rip Its Challenge and other forms of friendly hazing (25:18), as well as his first experience with WHOOP ( 29:24), why he believes it can help the military (32:55), how it enabled him to train smarter (39:47) and sleep better (43:...

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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.
0:19.7	Welcome to the WOOP podcast.
0:21.8	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:27.1	human performance.
0:29.2	At WOOP, we measure the body 24-7 and provide analytics to our members to help improve performance.
0:35.9	This includes strain, recovery, and sleep. Our clients range for
0:40.5	the best professional athletes in the world, to Navy Seals, to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500
0:46.1	CEOs and executives. The common thread among WOOP members is a passion to improve. What does it
0:52.0	take to optimize performance for athletes, for humans,
0:55.5	really anyone? We're launching a podcast to dig deeper. We'll interview experts and industry
1:01.2	leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement, you name it.
1:07.9	My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater
1:12.6	passion for performance. With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop podcast.
1:22.6	You don't know what you have inside of you until you're put through those six months of hell.
1:28.4	And at some point, you just make that mental decision.
1:31.8	Your mindset switch changes.
1:34.3	And you say, I'm going to do this or I'm going to die trying.
1:37.0	That's it.
1:43.2	What's up, folks? My guest today is former Navy SEAL Robert Mueller, a seal for 13 years. Mo, as he likes to be called, recently completed the first ever Spectre series event. Wait till you hear about this event. It's crazy. Three veteran seals, including Moe, skydived into the Pacific Ocean,
2:03.4	swam three miles with weights on their back, then ran 100 miles, again, with weights on their back
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