Hello folks, welcome to the Whoop podcast.

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

human performance.

We've got an amazing guest this week, Rory McElroy, world number one in professional golf, in honor of what would have been

Masters Week, ruined, of course, by the coronavirus. No worries, we still have Rory here, and this is a

really, really great episode. For those of you wondering, what is Woop? We build wearable technology

to really optimize human performance. So

small sensor measures everything about your body, things like sleep and recovery, stress,

and ultimately sends all of that information to your phone and phone to the cloud.

You can catch some of our earlier, more recent podcasts where we were focusing on COVID-19

and a lot of research that we've done there.

In particular, respiratory rate, which is a fascinating statistic.

I would encourage everyone who hasn't listened to some of our earlier podcasts around COVID-19

to check out how respiratory rate may be a precursor to getting symptoms and indicating that you have

COVID-19.

Now, Rory and I recorded this in March down in Florida.

You know, to give you a sense for what a class act, Rory McElroy is, we were recording

this at a golf course, and Rory didn't have his driver's license.

He was driving there to meet me.

And the security guard wouldn't let Rory McElroy into the golf course because he didn't have his driver's license.

He only had a passport.

And I in the moment thought that was the most ridiculous

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