What's up, folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with the best of the best,

top athletes, researchers, scientists, and more. Learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak.

And what you can do to unlock your own best performance, I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop.

And we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

This week, we're talking all about strength training and how it not only benefits your performance, but plays a key role in your overall health.

Kristen Holmes, our VP of Performance sits down with Cedric Unholes, Whoop Senior Performance Scientists,

and Chris Chapman,

Woop, senior sports scientist,

for an incredibly informative discussion.

In addition to being members of the Woop team,

Cedric is also a strength and conditioning coach

for Olympic windsurfers and Waterman in the Dominican Republic,

and Chris is a certified exercise physiologist who's the lead strength and conditioning coach

for freestyle ski Canada's slope style and Big Air National Team.

All right, they discuss the benefits of incorporating strength training into your training regime and how it's even more important as you age, where many people go wrong when strength training, why soreness is not necessary to get stronger, the differences in strength training for men and women, how to think about and plan for recovery after a hard training session, and why

rest is essential for building strength, what the interference effect is, and how to balance

strength and endurance, and how to program your workouts if you incorporate cardiovascular

and strength training components.

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