What Data tells us About Optimal Performance with WHOOP's Will Ahmed & Joe De Sena

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Should you eat before bed? What's the best time to train hard? What's the simplest way to improve sleep? Can respiration rate changes identify COVID 19?

Three pillars: strain, recovery, and sleep are vital to succeeding peak performance says WHOOP founder Will Ahmed. We are all trying to become the healthiest versions of ourselves - yet there are some physiological indicators that can't necessarily be felt but can be measured. In fact, groundbreaking data from WHOOP tracking enabled a PGA tour pro golfer to identify COVID before he had any known symptoms. Information is power, and in this interview, Ahmed shares data patterns gleaned from hundreds of thousands of users that you can implement today. Should you eat before bed? What's the best time to train hard? What's the simplest way to improve sleep? Will says- measurements can motivate!

LESSONS

Develop a sense of curiosity
Train optimally
Use information as a preventative tool
Strain, recovery & sleep are the three pillars
Routines are key
You can manage things you measure
Measurements can motivate
Sleep consistency is paramount

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LINKS

https://www.whoop.com

TIME STAMPS

0:45 honeystinger.com intro

2:15 Continuous health monitoring

3:15 training optimally

4:15 cutting weight properly

5:15 the flintstone model

6:15 what you can measure & may not feel

7:15 research on covid-19

9:15 monitoring as a preventative tool

10:15 improving sleep

12:45 information as power

14:00 honeystinger.com break

15:00 what metrics they monitor

16:45 recovery levels

17:45 Whoop Journal

19:15 building a routine

22:15 measuring can motivate

23:15 resting is vital in recovery

25:00 green means go

27:30 Joe's morning method

29:00 key tips

31:30 honeystinger.com close

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena

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Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:00.0	I think that feelings are largely overrated and that there are physiological indicators that you can't feel but you can measure.
0:09.4	Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe DesSena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race.
0:15.0	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
0:19.0	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on a Spartan
0:26.4	up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind.
0:29.4	Today, Joe de Senate talks to Will Amman, founder founder of Wu, about what his data reveals about how
0:35.0	optimizing your recovery can enhance your performance and the surprising and life-saving insights
0:39.7	their wearable technology uncovered about early COVID symptoms in the PGA Pro Tour.
0:46.6	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Honey Stinger, made with organic honey and
0:50.3	delicious ingredients.
0:51.5	Use the code H.S HS Spartan 2020 at honeystinger
0:54.6	dot com to save 30% off.
0:57.0	Spartans! We are here for Spartan Up Podcast I'm with Will Ahmed did I say Ahmed
1:06.4	Ahmed yeah Will Ahmed perfect founder of whoop when did you found what 2012
1:11.5	2012 yeah it was my senior year When did you found what? 2012.
1:12.9	Yeah, it was my senior year at Harvard.
1:16.4	You do a lot of, you do a lot of hard work as a kid.
1:19.0	I asked because I have four children, two boys, two girls, and I think it's every parent's dream to have their good kid go to a top school and I just wonder like how were you parent and how did how did you get there?
1:31.0	I mean I don't have kids yet but I feel like that would be the most important thing that I would encourage to to parents or or you know young people out there is just learn to develop a sense of curiosity and an eagerness to learn.
1:46.8	And how about fitness?
1:47.8	Did fitness play a big role in your life?
1:50.2	I was, I mean, I was obsessed with sports and exercise.
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