Training and Recovering As An Elite Runner with Olympian Colleen Quigley

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On this episode of the WHOOP Podcast, WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance, Principal Scientist Dr. Kristen Holmes sits down with Team USA Track Star, Colleen Quigley, to discuss training as an Olympian, recovery, and building a healthy athlete culture. Colleen shares her experience as a NCAA Division 1 athlete at Florida State to becoming an Olympian in the steeplechase and professional Triathlete before ultimately rediscovering her passion for middle-distance running. After years in the s...

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0:00.0	I was burning the candle over here trying to train and get myself back at an elite level.
0:05.3	And I just got kind of like burnt out. And so I had to take a pause on training and just
0:10.6	allow my body to tell me when it was like ready to go again. For me, what I've learned more
0:15.6	than anything, it's the nervous system recovery that if you can balance your nervous system, your body will recover
0:22.2	on itself. But if you're like just stuck in fight or flight all the time, you can't heal.
0:26.3	You can't recover when you're in fire or flight. So if it's sitting on the beach for 30 minutes
0:30.0	is going to put you into rest and digest like parasympathetic, your body will then heal itself.
0:39.1	Yay. Colleen Quigley, we heal itself. Yay.
0:39.8	Colleen Quigley, we're here.
0:42.2	I'm so excited to chat with you today.
0:44.4	This is like round two for us.
0:45.8	I know.
0:46.4	I'm really excited to be in person with you.
0:48.0	Oh my gosh.
0:48.7	Although we're like so far away.
0:49.9	I know we are really far away.
0:51.6	Oh, sweet girl.
0:54.1	It's going to be such a long conversation, I think.
0:56.4	For our listeners, we're going to just dive into your data.
1:00.1	You, I mean, gosh, your data is very aspirational.
1:04.9	You know, just a little bit on your background.
1:07.0	American Olympian world record holder in the 4x500 meter relay, NC2A champion, nine-time All-American,
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