WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins, Cesaro, and Coach Josh Gallegos on competing for the best WHOOP data, how it helps them adapt their training, and what really happens when they get in the ring.

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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

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Seth Rollins, the WWE's new Universal Champion, fellow wrestler Cesaro, and coach Josh Gallegos talk about their "WHOOP gang" (7:21), the similarities between wrestling and CrossFit (8:53), competing for the best WHOOP data (11:25) and the discoveries they've made from it (12:51), what increases their HRV (15:11), adapting workouts based on recovery (19:50), diet and nutrition (24:43), how to avoid injury in the ring (30:10), the art of wrestling (31:57) and how it compares to dancing the tan...

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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.
0:12.9	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 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.
1:22.0	Because recovery is a huge part of our game anyway. We perform so much at such a high level all the time. If you're
1:30.0	overworked, if you're over trained, then your performance suffers and then that's indicative
1:34.4	of where you sit on the card and where you're at in the company. So I mean, try to find
1:37.9	all these different ways to recover, but having the date of the whoop is nice because it will
1:41.8	give you a nice guide to follow.
1:53.6	Hello, folks. Today's podcast is a unique one. We've got the universal champion of the WWE Seth Rollins. We've got his buddy, fellow W.W.E. Wrestler Cesaro and their coach, Josh Giego's. We sat down together in
2:04.9	Brooklyn last week as they prepared for WrestleMania 35, so this was a few days before
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