Episode 344 is an Expert Edition featuring Phil Southerland, CEO Supersapiens.
Some of the planet’s best endurance athletes are wearing the Supersapiens proprietary device, a circular sensor on the back of their tricep, the world’s first continuous blood glucose monitoring system.
It has been successfully integrated into the training and performance outcomes of the best endurance athletes, Eliud Kipchoge, Kristian Blummenfelt, Gustav Iden, and recently Tobias Foss became the time trial World Champion with Jumbo-Visma, professional road cycling team, having long adopted the Supersapiens technology.
In this episode Phil shares around Wout van Aert and Chris Froome’s integration of Supersapiens into their training and performance, the backstory of product development, and how it shifted from being a medical device to one of the planet’s hottest and must have sports performance devices.
For over 40 years, Polar has been a global leader in fitness and GPS sports watches, and heart rate monitors. Their heart rate tracking technology is world-famous for being the most reliable and accurate in the industry.
Over decades, they’ve spent every day in search of undeniable truths about the human body; obsessed by what it is trying to tell us, poring over the data, sweating over the science.
They believe the most important thing you can do … is listen to your heart. What Polar does helps to improve the health, fitness and quality of millions of lives around the world – and that is what drives them. But what is driving you?
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Their range starts at $129, but what’s most important is that whatever you are doing, do it with heart.
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“Without visibility you can't make adjustments to improve”
“Health is wealth”
“We can spread health to the community by getting more people active”
“The world needs help and I know sport, exercise and activity could solve a lot of problems we have in the world today”
“This is how we can help people show up to their events, primed and ready to be the best in themselves”
“There's no magic bullet, anytime is a good time to start”
“Judgement is the reality”
“The old adage in sport, eat before you're hungry, drink before you're thirsty”
Top 3 learnings:
1. Eat more during training
2. Timing of when they eat
3. Learning what to eat post activity to optimise recovery
“our number one job as a company is education”
“Don’t give up” – Best Advice
“Inspire a friend to get active” – Physical Challenge
Chris Froome - British Road Racing Cyclist
Wout van Aert - Belgian Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Kristian Blummenfelt - Olympic & World Triathlon Series Champion, Episodes 117, 286 and 301 of The Physical Performance Show
Anna van der Breggen - Dutch Forner Professional Road Cyclist
Eliud Kipchoge - Kenyan professional long-distance runner
Tobias Foss - Norwegian cyclist
Gustav Iden - Norwegian Olympic Triathlete, Episode 249 of The Physical Performance Show
Twitter @ PhilSoutherland
Linkedin: @psoutherland
Website @supersapiens
0:00 Start
02:42 Supersapiens - The why behind the what
05:22 What the Supersapiens device is measuring
11:20 Timeframes to start utilising the technology
21:40 Top 3 learnings from athletes using the device
23.15 How the device could possibly assist avoid bone stress injury and Low Energy Availability
25:40 Phil expresses to the Coaching Community
27:20 Future of the technology
27:55 Best Advice
28:28 Physical Challenge
32:02 Finish
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