The Rich Roll Podcast

The Rich Roll Podcast

Greetings, Podcast Landia. Welcome to the show.

Got a great one for you on top.

But first, we're brought to you today by my favorite sleep and recovery tracker.

Woop!

What does your woop do, Rich?

What does your woop do?

My woop, everybody's woop provides personalized insights through their app that actually lets you know how much sleep you need, how recovered your body is to take on the day, and how strenuous your day was from everything you do in and outside of training.

I don't know. I generally have a pretty good sense of how well I slept, not well, or how good I feel or how recovered I am based on, you know, my general Shua Devibe.

I feel, right, on intuition. I get it. I mean, I think that's cool. I used to feel the same, but I think feel intuition has its limitations.

I mean, it's not altogether bad or wrong to go by feel, but there's so much more non-intuitive nuance to all of this that Woop actually has been really helpful with for me.

You're like, what?

Well, here's an example. This just happened the other day.

I felt like I got this great night of sleep, and when I woke up, I was like, raring to go itching to just bank a super hard, long workout on my bike.

And it's the first bike workout that I've done in a bit since I was out of town, but I checked Woop and Woop let me know that although my sleep metrics were indeed pretty good, my heart rate variability was actually super low.

I think I would not have known. That's an indication of strain. And the idea of crushing it with a low heart rate variability is really not in your best interest. So instead, I modified my workout.

I did a chill two hour zone two ride instead, sub great Saturday night. My heart rate variability was back up the next morning, and that's when I was ready to go for a crusher run on Sunday morning.

But none of this is intuitive. And without using Woop, I would have been none the wiser. So when you add up incidents like this over time, it compounds our ability to progress not just as athletes, but as humans, just wanting to tailor our rest and our recovery and our strain to optimize our energy and productivity day in and day out.

I'm in me too. If you out there are looking to be smarter about how you sleep, recover and train so you can be your best, you got to check out Woop. And right now for all you guys, my listeners, Woop is offering 15% off when you use the code rich roll at checkout go to woop.com. That's WHOP.com and use the code rich roll at checkout to say 15% off your order, unlike your best self today.

While we're on the subject of optimizing your physical self day in day out, I am a big believer in responsible supplementation, no matter what your diet, I think it's really important, but equally important is choosing the right products because the supplement space is so unregulated, which means most multivitamins out there, unfortunately are just crap. What's in them doesn't necessarily match the label.

The nutrients aren't bio available. And on top of that, they're generally packed with a bunch of terrible artificial nonsense. I just don't want any part of like animal byproducts and bovine gelatin and who knows what else. All of which brings us to ritual.

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