Super Bowl champion Steve Weatherford discusses performance mindset, mental health, and the big game

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Steve Weatherford, who won Super Bowl XLVI with the Giants in 2012, returns to the WHOOP Podcast for a discussion on mindset, fitness, and Super Bowl LVI. Steve spent 10 years as a punter in the NFL, and was twice voted the fittest man in the league. He had one of the best performances of his career in the Super Bowl, but explains why that didn’t fulfill him at the time and what he’s learned about mental health since that moment. Steve discusses his road to athletics and why he had an unhealt...

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0:00.0	What's up folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with the top performers out there,
0:07.8	learn from them to help each one of us perform at a higher level.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Will Amid, founder and CEO of WOOP.
0:15.5	We build the wearable tech that powers many of the best athletes in the world.
0:19.3	And of course, many consumers who are trying
0:22.0	to improve their health. Super Bowl week. So it's only fitting that we have a Super Bowl champ
0:28.1	on the Whoop podcast. We published some data a couple weeks ago on Patrick Mahomes' epic win over
0:34.1	the bills. Mahomes did not make it to the Super Bowl, but the good news is Woop is the
0:39.2	official wearable of the NFL Players Association. So we get to work with many, many players in
0:45.6	the NFL. Woop actually is distributed to every player in the NFL at the beginning of every season.
0:50.9	So with that, let's get to Super Bowl champ Steve Weatherford, who won Super Bowl 46
0:57.0	with the Giants in 2012. And we talk everything mindset, fitness, and Super Bowl predictions.
1:06.5	This is Steve's second appearance on the podcast. You can check him at episode 46 as well. He spent 10 years as a punter in the NFL. And despite what you might think about punters, he was twice voted the fittest man in the league. Yeah, that's crazy. But it's true. He is really, really, really, really fit. He's been on whoop for a long time and we talk a little bit
1:29.4	about his whoop data some of his training habits how he's gone from being a bodybuilder to now
1:34.7	training for a hundred mile ultramarathon we talk of course about that moment winning the
1:41.1	super ball standing on the top of the mountain. And guess what? It actually
1:45.6	wasn't this moment of euphoria for him. He felt deep sadness after winning the Super Bowl.
1:53.3	So this is a really fascinating episode as well around mindset, mental health, what drives really
2:00.3	successful people.
2:01.8	Steve and I discuss the importance of relationships and why he believes it's the true
2:05.4	currency of life, how he goes about creating a life filled with the most important things to
2:10.0	him, what Tom Brady's career teaches us about consistency and how that can lead to greatness,
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