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WHOOP Podcast

The Sleep Episode: WHOOP Director of Analytics Emily Capodilupo answers everything you want to know about sleep.

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Sleep expert and WHOOP Director of Analytics Emily Capodilupo talks about her background and why she joined WHOOP (3:46), habits of our top 100 sleepers (15:30), bedtime routines (20:01), new WHOOP sleep features including Sleep Consistency (20:48), Sleep Efficiency and Respiratory Rate (24:18), how long one bad night of sleep affects you (36:30), improving REM & slow-wave sleep and what that means (43:29), tips for staying asleep (44:54), exercise's effect on sleep (52:58), tracking HRV ...

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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.

0:19.6

Welcome to the WOOP podcast.

0:21.8

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

0:27.1

human performance.

0:29.2

At WOOP, we measure the body 24-7 and provide analytics to our members to help improve performance.

0:35.9

This includes strain, recovery, and sleep. Our clients range

0:40.4

for the best professional athletes in the world, to Navy Seals, to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500

0:46.1

CEOs and executives. The common thread among WOOP members is a passion to improve. What does it

0:52.0

take to optimize performance for athletes, for humans,

0:55.5

really anyone? We're launching a podcast to dig deeper. We'll interview experts and industry

1:01.2

leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement, you name it.

1:07.9

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

1:12.6

passion for performance. With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop podcast.

1:22.1

Sleep consistency is obviously really closely related to your circadian rhythm. And so if you

1:27.2

have high sleep consistency, your body is able to anticipate sleep,

1:31.4

which is why we're seeing sleep consistency explains as much as like a 3% difference in sleep efficiency.

1:36.7

It explains as different in slow wave sleep and REM sleep.

1:39.5

And we think that that's because when your body's anticipating sleep, it knows what to do.

1:47.2

What's up, folks, in honor of World Sleep Day.

1:52.0

That's right.

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