What's up, folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with top athletes, scientists, experts, and more.

Learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak and what you can do to unlock your best performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. Okay, we got a fun

data-oriented episode. We're taking a look at what happened in 2021 within the Woop community.

Despite COVID still being a factor, you all were busy. You whoop members were busy, trying new

things, getting out there, but also prioritizing recoveries and sleep. I am joined by Emily Capitouloupo,

our fearless VP of data science and research, to talk about 2021 in review. We took a look at the

entire year across all of our members across the globe

and what we found might surprise you. As pandemic restrictions lifted and days got longer,

we saw our members had a summer of fun. We get into significant increases in recoveries,

sex lives, noticeable decreases in sleep and stress, and working late.

Our community-wide data also showed us which behaviors most positively and most negatively affected both recovery and sleep efficiency.

So that's right.

If you've ever looked at the Whoop Journal and said to yourself,

which of these is good for me, which of these is bad for me? Well, we've got some data on that.

Emily and I also talk about the direct correlation between mental well-being and sleep across

the whole Whoop population, proving that good sleep comes from so much more than hours in bed.

Reminder, you get 15% off a W-W-Mership if you use the

code will. That's W-I-L-L. And without further ado, here is Emily Capital Loopo.

Emily, welcome back to the WOOP podcast. Excited to dive in with you. Thanks for having me.

Excited to be here. So 2021, a unique year, you know, mostly driven by COVID-19, having its various rise and fall and rise again.

What sorts of things, just from a pure activity standpoint, did we see from the

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