015: Kristen Holmes – Elite Performance is a Choice (WHOOP Vice-President)
Learn II Perform with Braeden Ostepchuk
English - February 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Health & Fitness Alternative Health learn perform health happiness performance optimize potential gratitude service self-care Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Kristen Holmes – Vice President of Performance Science at WHOOP and legendary field hockey player and coach – shares actionable insights into the physiology and psychology of human performance that can enable you to literally CHOOSE your performance. At WHOOP, she works directly with hundreds of the best tactical, professional, surgical, and NCAA Athletes/Teams in the world helping them interpret WHOOP data to optimize training, recovery, and sleep behavior.
Not only is Kristen an authority on all things related to human performance optimization, she speaks from a place of experience as one of the most decorated field hockey athletes AND coaches of all time. Competing at the University of Iowa, she was a 3x All American and 2x Big 10 Athlete of the Year before becoming a 7 year member of the US National Field Hockey Team and a legendary coach at Princeton. Her tenure at Princeton is the definition of a dynasty, winning 12 Ivy league titles in 13 seasons and a National Championship in 2012.
This episode distils many of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in the world of elite performers and provides actionable advice so that you can immediately CHOOSE your performance level. Kristen’s wisdom can change the trajectory of your life.
TOPICS:
[3:09] Performance is the capacity to perform intentionally
[9:06] The North Star: How to access the Flow State
[14:09] The two ingredients in Kristen’s (tried and tested) winning formula
[20:54] How to manifest high performance consistently (Hint: Everything you need is free)
[24:42] Why meal timing is so important
[35:00] You can opt out of jet lag
[40:29] The physiology and psychology of resilience
[54:07] Most impactful changes you make today – The gold standard of performance habits
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