Lessons learned from wearing a sleep tracker with Garron Mosley

Sleep and HRV trackers are becoming more popular, and the best ones have a smart dashboard that provides lots of information on your sleep performance, and HRV trends. They also have algorithms that assess all of the data and give a daily recovery score. I started using the Whoop tracker in 2017 and I have to confess that there have been times when I have been over focussed on the data to the point where I actually worried whether I was going to have a good night's sleep. Note: This is actually a diagnosable condition known as orthosomnia - obsessing over the perfect night's sleep.

Over time I came to realise that the real value in devices like this is from the long-term trends and the behavioural changes which result.

Today's guest is Garron Mosley, an elite age group triathlete. Garron qualified to race at the recent Ironman World Championships in Hawaii and as you’ll hear the trip didn’t go quite according to plan.

More interesting to me was the fact that Garron had started wearing a Whoop band and has made some pretty significant changes to his life with amazing results as a result of analysing the data.

We talk about a lot but some topics you might be interested in include:

• Qualifying for Kona
• His scary bike crash which resulted in a DNS at The Ironman World Championships
• How Garron manages a high volume of training each week, all while running a growing business and being a good family man
• Behavioural changes from wearing the Whoop
• How better sleep leads to better decision-making at work
• Why reducing or eliminating alcohol will lead to better sleep
• Caffeine and sleep. It’s not good - don't be fooled if you can drink coffee in the evening and fall asleep easily

If you're interested in finding out more about Garron, he hangs out at these social media places:

Facebook - @garronmosley

Instagram - @garronmosley

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/garron-mosley-0143349 

 

To find out more about Whoop, please go here Whoop.com

If you're interested in signing up for a Whoop subscription click on the link and it will give you a FREE 30 days at the start of your subscription.

 

Garron recommended these podcasts:

 

The Diary of a CEO - Steven Bartlett

The Rich Roll Podcast - Rich Roll

 

Other Cool Stuff

Garron recommends nutrition products from Ethic Sport, his go-to race nutrition since 2017. As he says, "I pay for it, so it's a choice."

 

Books

Relentless - From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover

Scary Smart - Mo Gawat

Life Without Limits - Chrissie Wellington

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