WHOOP Podcast

From partier to pro athlete: how cyclist Orla Walsh became one of Ireland's top athletes

Apr 27, 2022

40:30

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How Do You Deal With the Pressure at Nationals? I Love You Before I Won Nationals

02:05

Women Cycling

02:38

How Do You Manage Your Days Off?

02:08

Introduction

2min

Orla, You're a Tract Cyclist, You Know?

3min

Is Your Life Style Like a Bad Girl?

2min

Encycling

2min

Bikini Bikinis - My Story

2min

I'm Going to Not Get Dropped

2min

How Did You Get Into Cycling?

3min

I Want to Be Vegan for Ethical Reasons

3min

What Are Your Favorite Meals?

2min

10.

Cycling in Europe

2min

11.

Is This at the UCI?

2min

12.

Women's Cycling

3min

13.

Women Cycling

3min

14.

Bicycling Magazine - How Did You Find Your Whoop?

4min

15.

How Do You Manage Your Days Off?

2min

16.

How Do You Deal With the Pressure at Nationals? I Love You Before I Won Nationals

2min

17.

Olympics

3min

Orla Walsh's journey to professional cycling was far from ordinary. She was a self-described party girl who was smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day, but that all changed when she started biking to work. She quickly transformed her life and is now one of Ireland's best athletes, winning three straight national championships in women's sprint. She sits down with Jeremy Powers to discuss her journey to sport (3:13), her competitive spirit (8:46), getting into racing (11:28), her vegan diet (15:31), being a woman in cycling (25:06), how she uses WHOOP (31:08), her respiratory rate story with COVID-19 (32:29), rest and recovery (34:06), and the performance mindset (37:17).

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