Unlocking Human Performance: What is WHOOP, and what can it do for you? CEO Will Ahmed sits down with ATP Science Co-Founders Jeff Doidge and Matt Legge.

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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

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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ATP Science Co-Founders Jeff Doidge and Matt Legge chat with WHOOP CEO Will Ahmed about unlocking human performance, including the company's mission (3:35), preventing overtraining (4:50), the metrics WHOOP tracks (5:36), measuring recovery (7:16), quantifying strain (8:45), getting WHOOP on the world's best athletes (9:45), improving sleep efficiency and consistency (15:49), the effects of mental fatigue (23:16), why heart rate variability is so important (27:03), what many people don't real...

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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.
1:13.9	You name it. 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.
1:31.8	Your body has physiological indicators that you can't feel. And in general, when it comes to
1:38.4	performance, feelings are largely overrated. We as human beings like relying on feelings,
1:43.8	but our feelings are often wrong.
1:45.5	Whereas our body, it's almost like these secrets
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