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Today’s guest is Kristen Holmes. Kristen has spent her entire career and much of her life in high performance environments. In college, she was a 3x All American and 2x Big 10 Conference Athlete of the year at the University of Iowa competing in both...
Today’s guest is Kristen Holmes. Kristen has spent her entire career and much of her life in high performance environments. In college, she was a 3x All American and 2x Big 10 Conference Athlete of the year at the University of Iowa competing in both Field Hockey and Basketball. She was a 7 year member of the U.S. National Field Hockey Team and one of the most successful coaches in Ivy League history, having won 12 league titles in 13 seasons and a National Championship at Princeton University. She also founded a successful, nationwide field hockey camp and clinics business and ran it for 16 years. Today, Kristen is the Vice President of Performance Science at WHOOP, a consumer technology company that empowers its users to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. Her role is to drive thought leadership at WHOOP by using a meta approach to better understand individual and team performance across military, sports, and medicine. In this interview, we get into Kristen’s sports background, her coaching philosophy and career, WHOOP, and all things performance optimization.
Timestamps
00:02:41 Moving a lot growing up and sports background
00:09:45 College sports days
00:17:42 Outcome dissociation
00:19:53 Happiness is internal
00:21:20 Habits will accumulate
00:23:30 Extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
00:26:16 Coaching and performance work after college
00:38:27 How Princeton Field Hockey became so successful
00:44:05 Opportunity to join Whoop
00:47:30 Heart Rate Variability
00:49:45 Whoop
00:54:51 Her role at Whoop
00:59:37 How she optimizes her performance
01:03:00 Her driving force
01:03:57 Importance of sleep
