WHOOP Podcast

Strength, Conditioning, and Rest: How Strength Training Can Help You Get Stronger, Faster, and Healthier

Aug 31, 2022

41:04

Episode guests

Chris Chapman

Cedric Unholz

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

How to Get Stronger, but Not Get Injured

03:10

What Do You Think You Can Do Correctly?

02:38

Is There a Difference Between Women and Men in Strength Training?

04:30

Introduction

3min

Strength Training and Weight Lifting for Performance?

3min

The Benefits of Strength Training

2min

Functional Strength Training

3min

How to Get Stronger, but Not Get Injured

3min

What Do You Think You Can Do Correctly?

3min

Strength Training - Do You Use Weights?

2min

The Importance of Conditioning in Strength Training

4min

Is There a Difference Between Women and Men in Strength Training?

5min

10.

Post Session Stretching - Ike, How Does It Help?

2min

11.

The Importance of Strength Training for Athletes

4min

12.

Do Your Strength Before Your Endurance?

2min

13.

What's the Minimum for Training?

3min

14.

How Do You Know if You Have One R M?

3min

Kristen Holmes, WHOOP VP of Performance, is joined on this week's podcast by Cedric Unholz, WHOOP Senior Performance Scientist and Strength & Conditioning Coach for Olympic Windsurfers, and Chris Chapman, WHOOP Sr. Sports Scientist and Lead Strength & Conditioning Coach for Freestyle Ski Canada’s Slopestyle and Big Air National Team to share the physiological benefits of a strength training regimen. They discuss the benefits of a strength training program (6:45), the difference between traditional strength training and functional training (8:50), where most people go wrong when strength training (14:58), difference in training protocol between men and women (23:09), how to plan for recovery after a hard training session (24:23), what the interference effect is, and how it can influence how and what you train (33:05), how to evaluate your one-rep max (37:27), and the importance of building rest into your training (38:40).

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