Could This Be The World's Most POWERFUL Self-Quantification Device?! (& Is It Even Safe Or Accurate?) With Whoop's Will Ahmed

Ben Greenfield

20 sept 2025

Episode description

In this fascinating episode with Will Ahmed, founder of WHOOP (you can click here to get 1 month free on your membership), you’ll get to discover how his company is redefining health tracking through continuous 24/7 physiological monitoring, actionable coaching, and innovations like ECG readings and noninvasive blood pressure insights.

Will Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, which has developed next-generation wearable technology for optimizing human performance and health. WHOOP members include professional athletes, Fortune 500 CEOs, fitness enthusiasts, military personnel, frontline workers, and a broad range of people looking to improve their performance.

Ahmed is a member of the Board of Fellows of Harvard Medical School, where he provides counsel to the Dean and faculty on topics related to the strength and health of the institution. Ahmed was named to the 2021 Sports Business Journal 40 Under 40 list as well as 2020 Fortune 40 Under 40 Healthcare list and previously named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 and Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. Ahmed founded WHOOP as a student at Harvard College, where he captained the Men’s Varsity Squash Team and graduated with an A.B. in government.

WHOOP, the human performance company, offers a wearable health and fitness coach to help people achieve their goals. The WHOOP membership provides best-in-class wearable technology, actionable feedback, and recommendations across recovery, sleep, training, and health. WHOOP serves professional athletes, Fortune 500 CEOs, executives, fitness enthusiasts, military personnel, frontline workers, and anyone looking to improve their performance.

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Mindsip insights from this episode:

Monitor high HRV for potential AFib indication

An unusually high heart rate variability (HRV) reading, like jumping from 50ms to 200ms, can be a sign of Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) rather than excellent recovery.

#arrhythmia

#HRV

Inform Whoop AI coach about your supplement stack for better health insights

You can now tell the Whoop AI coach, which uses OpenAI, about your supplement stack, and it will remember this information to correlate with your health data.

#AI

#supplement

Limit sleep to improve Health Span score

Getting more than nine hours of sleep consistently can negatively impact your Health Span score, as it may indicate an underlying chronic issue.

#healthspan

#sleep

Upload past blood tests for AI analysis and correlation with wearable data

You will be able to upload all your past blood test data, even as PDFs or photos, for the Whoop AI to analyze and correlate with your wearable data.

#AI

#blood-test

Obtain daily cuffless blood pressure estimates with Whoop MG

The Whoop MG can provide daily blood pressure estimates from your wrist after a one-time calibration with a traditional cuff.

#blood-pressure

#device

Utilize HRV to predict childbirth timing

A study on pregnant women found that HRV steadily declines during pregnancy and then spikes seven weeks before delivery, a phenomenon that can help predict early deliveries.

#childbirth

#HRV

Calculate your physiological age using health metrics

The "Health Span" feature, developed with the Buck Institute, calculates your physiological age based on nine metrics including sleep, strain, and fitness.

#biological-age

Measure HRV during deep sleep for optimal recovery

Whoop calculates your recovery HRV from the last five minutes of your slow-wave sleep, which is a controlled state when your body is most restorative.

#HRV

#sleep

Avoid exercise within four hours of bedtime to improve sleep

Data from 4 million nights of sleep shows that exercising within four hours of bedtime disrupts sleep, with the effect worsening the closer the workout is to sleep.