Super Bowl champion Eli Manning on training your mind, reducing injury, and the role belief plays in success.

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Eli Manning is one of the most durable players in NFL history. He started 210 straight games over a 13 year span, and led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories along the way. He details how visualization, mindset, and belief played a key role in his career. Eli sits down with Will Ahmed to discuss growing up in a football family (2:54), learning from his older brother Peyton (5:43), the 2004 draft (8:54), the importance of teamwork (12:19), his keys to durability (14:30), the ...

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0:00.0	What's up, folks?
0:05.8	Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we sit down with top athletes, researchers, scientists, and more to 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,
0:21.7	Will Ahmed, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. What an amazing past week
0:27.6	it's been. For those of you following all the action, we announced a new acquisition and push.
0:34.0	We announced Woop Unlocked, our first virtual event. And at that event, we announced
0:39.5	the new Woop 4.0. And actually, our last podcast got into WOOP 4.0 and everything that it can do.
0:46.4	So I encourage you all to check out Woop Unlocked, which was the event. You can see that on YouTube.
0:51.5	And I encourage you to listen to the WOOP 4.O podcast. And you can join
0:55.1	Woop for 15% off if you use the code will. That's just WILL. Now, we got a great
1:01.7	guest this week. NFL legend, Eli Manning. Eli spent 16 seasons in the NFL quarterbacking
1:09.6	the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories.
1:12.7	He holds nearly every passing record in Giants franchise history and put together a career
1:17.3	that many argue is worthy of the Hall of Fame.
1:19.9	He started 210 consecutive games from 2004 to 2017.
1:24.1	So this is a guy who knows something about consistency.
1:26.5	That's the third longest consecutive start streak in league history.
1:30.5	So we talked a lot about how he stayed healthy during that time frame, how he overcame
1:35.2	injuries, and just what he did from a recovery standpoint to be able to start every single
1:41.3	game.
1:42.3	Eli also discusses his upbringing in the Manning family and his
1:45.3	journey to the NFL. I particularly enjoyed him talking about his relationship with Peyton and we got
1:50.5	into that. Eli talked about why training your mind is as important as training your body, how to
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