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WHOOP Podcast

The Science of Winning: Kristen Holmes and Mike Lombardi discuss how to build and sustain long-term success in sports, with the idea that performance is a choice.

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Science of Winning: Kristen Holmes, a national champion field hockey coach, and Mike Lombardi, a former US rowing coach, share what it takes to sustain success in athletics. They talk about the idea that performance is a choice (4:30), defining success (6:57), using data to individualize training (10:23), coach-athlete trust and accountability (14:35), building a perennial contender (20:06), playing as if the score is always 0-0 (25:43), opportunities not opponents (26:19), measuring capa...

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0:00.0

We discovered that there were secrets that your body was trying to tell you that could really help you optimize performance.

0:10.6

But no one could monitor those things.

0:13.2

And that's when we set out to build the technology that we thought could really change the world.

0:19.1

Welcome to the Whoop podcast.

0:21.5

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

0:27.5

human performance.

0:29.6

At Whoop, our clients range from the best professional athletes in the world to Navy Seals,

0:34.3

to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500 CEOs and executives.

0:41.3

The common thread among Woop members is a passion to improve. What does it take to optimize performance for athletes, for humans, really anyone?

0:46.3

And now that we've just launched all-new WOOP-Strap 3.0,

0:50.3

featuring WOOP Live, which takes real-time training and recovery analysis to the next level,

0:57.0

you're going to hear how many of these users are optimizing their body with Whoop and with other things in their life.

1:05.1

On this podcast, we dig deeper.

1:07.2

We interview experts.

1:08.4

We interview industry leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement. You name it.

1:15.0

How can you use data to improve your body? What should you change about your life?

1:19.9

My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion for performance.

1:25.5

With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop Podcast.

1:32.3

These other 22 hours of the day are extraordinarily important as it relates to performance.

1:40.3

And if we don't understand the choices we're making and the impact those choices have on our readiness, if we don't understand the choices we're making and the impact those choices have on our

1:46.7

readiness, if we don't understand how those choices impact us, we're just literally we have the

1:51.3

blindfold on and we're trying to hit a bull's eye.

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