LeBron's Recovery Metrics

Will Ahmed shares insights about LeBron James from Whoop's early days and a failed diet experiment.

"When we first started working with LeBron James in 2015-2016, his sleep data was incredible. I could probably pick his data out of a lineup of one hundred people, which makes a lot of sense given how good he's been at recovering in his career. He's taking care of that third of his life and sleeping great.

But here's an interesting contrast - remember when LeBron got really skinny around the Olympics? He had been playing with Ray Allen, who got him to go on the paleo diet because Ray Allen was obsessed with it. As an example of how personal diet can be, it was amazing for Ray but terrible for LeBron - just terrible.

This shows how you could put two people on identical diets and they could have literally the exact opposite effects on those people."