Tennis star Shelby Rogers on the surprising power of stress and the winning mindset

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Professional tennis player Shelby Rogers joins the WHOOP Podcast for an in-depth discussion on cultivating a winning mindset, persevering through injury and setbacks, and the inevitability of stress and how we can use it to our advantage. She talks about getting started in tennis at a young age (3:06), the importance of trusting your gut (6:02), overcoming injury (7:55), the role gratitude plays in success (11:18), her remarkable ability to stay out of the red (15:38), focusing on the right t...

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0:00.0	Hello folks, welcome back to the WOOP podcast, where we sit down with top performing athletes,
0:08.8	scientists, experts, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak
0:13.8	and what you can do to unlock your own best performance.
0:18.2	I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission
0:21.9	to unlock human performance. You may have noticed things sound a little different around here.
0:27.0	This week we are rolling out new music and a new look as we continue investing in the podcast.
0:31.9	I hope you enjoy it. All right. Our guest this week is professional tennis player Shelby
0:37.4	Rogers and part of the
0:39.3	Women's Tennis Association.
0:41.5	If you missed our announcement last week, Whoop was just announced as the official
0:45.4	fitness wearable of the WTA.
0:47.9	That's a major development for players and fans alike.
0:52.1	WTA players will now be able to wear whoop in competition. And that means
0:56.2	we'll be bringing you Woop live during broadcasts of these matches. That's right. So the live
1:01.8	heart rate they've been seeing within golf, CrossFit, NASCAR, other sports properties. We're
1:07.0	now going to be doing it in women's tennis. Shelby's been on whoop longer than just about anyone.
1:11.8	She's been wearing whoop since 2016 to help her perform at an elite level,
1:17.0	especially while traveling around the globe.
1:19.6	We talk about her career and how she's been able to upset some of the top players on the planet,
1:23.7	including Serena Williams and Ash Barty.
1:25.8	We also discuss the mindset needed to be successful.
1:29.7	She has a great acronym, When, what's important now? So we talk a lot about being present.
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