Michael Phelps on his journey to Olympic greatness, his struggles with depression, and how WHOOP helps him be his best

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, joins the WHOOP Podcast for an in-depth discussion on his career, high performance, and mental health. Michael talks about his journey to winning 28 Olympic medals, but also details his struggle with depression and anxiety. He explains his mission to help those battling mental health challenges and also talks about how WHOOP plays a critical role in his own health and well-being. He sits down with Will Ahmed to discuss his early days in ...

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0:00.0	What's up, folks? This is the WOOP podcast where we sit down with the highest performing athletes,
0:08.0	experts, doctors, you name it, to tell us more about performance and physiology. Help us learn
0:13.9	what we can do to unlock our own performance. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop,
0:20.2	and we have a great, great guest for you today, Michael Phelps.
0:24.6	We're going to get to Michael in half a second.
0:26.9	First, I'll remind you, you can check out the Woop membership at Woop.com.
0:31.1	Use the code, Will, get 15% off a Woop membership, and use this technology to measure everything about your strain
0:38.7	and your recovery and your sleep.
0:41.2	Okay, the great Michael Phelps joins us for a long conversation.
0:45.4	Michael, 28-time Olympic medalist, an unbelievable career, athlete, competitor.
0:52.6	We talk about everything it took for him to become such an
0:56.2	enormous Olympic success, his training, his recovery, his diet, his preparation, his mindset,
1:03.5	his work with coach Bob Bowman, his family, really all the sacrifice and hard work that it took
1:09.2	to become such an enormous success.
1:12.1	We also talk about the challenges that Michael's faced in his life, the fact that he has gone
1:17.4	through periods of depression, even thoughts of suicide. He's very open about mental health
1:22.2	and how important it is to him as an initiative to really improve mental health globally. I think this is a
1:29.6	really fascinating conversation. So without further ado, here is Michael Phelps. Michael,
1:37.3	welcome to the WOOP podcast. Thank you. Thank you. So we're going to talk a lot about performance
1:42.3	and mindset, training. You've been on WOOP for a long time, so I'm excited to talk to you about that.
1:47.4	But I thought we could start by just going back in time.
1:50.4	What are your first memories of swimming?
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