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BarBend Classic: How to Optimize Your Sleep (with Kristen Holmes)

BarBend Classic: How to Optimize Your Sleep (with Kristen Holmes)

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BarBend Classic: How to Optimize Your Sleep (with Kristen Holmes)

FromBarBend Podcast

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Aug 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This will shock many athletes: What you do in training likely has little to no impact on your next-day recovery. The common wisdom about recovery, especially sleep, needs a major update. So we sat down wit Kristen Holmes, WHOOP's VP of Performance, to separate fact from fiction on deep sleep, caffeine consumption, foods that help and hurt sleep, muscle repair, and what tracking HRV can tell us about how rested you really are. 
Released:
Aug 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Learn from the top athletes, coaches, and influencers in strength! Each week, the BarBend Podcast brings together some of the world's biggest strength names across weightlifting, powerlifting, CrossFit, strongman, and more. BarBend Editor and Co-Founder David Thomas Tao sits down with the strength community's smartest and strongest minds to with a focus on their learnings through training, competition, and coaching. We dive deep on their journeys and where strength training has taken them. World record holders share their competition secrets. Coaches give their most underrated tips. And top thinkers and researchers from the realm of strength science go deep on their most promising findings. This podcast is the perfect companion for experts and beginners alike, covering a wide range of topics to keep listeners up to date on the world of strength.