WHOOP Podcast

The Science of Recovery: How recovery resets your body and mind for peak performance

Nov 10, 2021

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Do We Need to Be Sore to Gain Muscle?

03:09

Is There Anything You Don't Know About Percushion Tools?

01:50

The Sub Components of Muscle Fatigue

03:32

Introduction

3min

You're a Performance Scientist, Right?

4min

The Sub Components of Muscle Fatigue

4min

Do We Need to Be Sore to Gain Muscle?

3min

Is There a Good Definition of Recovery?

5min

Is There a Mental Fatiguing Component?

3min

We Were in a Cup Ition, and We Weren't Doing Great.

2min

The Autonomic Nervous System and Recovery

3min

Is There a Framework for Post Exercise Cooling?

4min

10.

Is It a Cooling of the Secondary Damage Phase?

3min

11.

Is There a Right Way to Address Fatigue?

4min

12.

Recovery Moralities

5min

13.

Sleep, Nutrition, Hydration, Those Are Recovery Modas Too.

5min

14.

How to Improve Recovery From Alcoholism?

6min

15.

Is There a Way to Improve Your Recovery?

4min

16.

Is There Anything You Don't Know About Percushion Tools?

2min

17.

I Thinksbo Was Driving the Right Behavior.

2min

Dr. Robin Thorpe sits down with WHOOP VP of Performance Kristen Holmes for an episode on The Science of Recovery – the second of a three-episode series which also includes The Science of Sleep with Dr. Meeta Singh and The Science of Strain (coming soon). Dr. Thorpe is one of the leading experts in the recovery space, and is perhaps best known for his work with Manchester United for nearly a decade, where he served as Senior Performance Scientist and Conditioning coach. He explains the two subcomponents of muscle fatigue (8:45), if soreness is always a good sign for muscle building (12:59), the mental side of recovery and how HRV is an indication of where you are psychologically (19:23), understanding your HRV range (25:22), cold therapy (27:55), which recovery modalities are effective in which scenarios (33:40), the placebo effect in recovery (39:16), the fundamentals of recovery (45:59), and training your autonomic nervous system (48:27).

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