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WHOOP Podcast

Work Hard, Rest Hard: Kristen Holmes chats with Nuun Hydration’s CEO Kevin Rutherford & Director of Product Development Vishal Patel about the intersection of endurance sport, sleep and recovery.

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Endurance sport, sleep & recovery: WHOOP VP of Performance Kristen Holmes sits down with Nuun Hydration CEO Kevin Rutherford and Director of Product Development Vishal Patel. They discuss how we can all benefit from performance monitoring (5:15), what endurance exercise does to your body (7:44), sleep as a skill (10:07) and the 4 stages of sleep (11:21), working out too hard to fall asleep (12:47), how WHOOP determines recovery (19:31), results of exercising when you're tired (21:33), nut...

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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.

0:19.7

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 for

0:40.5

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.

1:22.6

One thing that we have seen with endurance type athletes is that they don't rest enough. And what ends up

1:28.9

happening is when folks get injured, you know, they just can't sustain that level, right? Something

1:32.9

ends up breaking down. Looking at the data, understanding kind of how you're tracking, what's

1:37.8

normal for you, having a robust baseline. All that's really central if you want to optimize performance.

1:47.6

What's up, folks? On this week's podcast, our VP of Performance, Kristen Holmes, visits

1:54.5

the noon hydration headquarters in Seattle, Washington. If you're not familiar with noon,

1:59.8

they make drink tablets to replenish

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