"If you understand what’s going on in your body... extrapolate the data and understand what it means then you can provide more of an accurate service, accommodation, recommendation, or whatever it may be to improve the human body and get it back on track."
Jim Huether
EFR 481: Soft Tissue Hygiene, Improving Total Body Recovery, and Disrupting the Health Technology World with Jim Huether of HyperIce
There’s been a rising trend in recent years of using technology to better understand and optimize the human body. Through these tools we track, tweak, and train not only our wellness but also our ability to perform, and even use these tools as a means to increase our lifespan. We can now do all these things through the lens of the “quantified self”.
Today’s guest explains how his company, Hyperice, has taken the tools and technologies used by the world’s most elite athletes and brought them to the masses to help them “warm up quicker, recover faster, and move better.”
Listen in as Jim Huether shares the approach Hyperice uses to continuously develop technology in order to more precisely meet the needs of the human body as we come to better understand how it functions.
In particular, he touches on their new HyperSmart ecosystem which pulls activity data from their wearable devices and provides wholly personalized recommendations based on that data.
He talks about how the technology guides users toward behavior change in the most natural, human way possible, as opposed to the overly restrictive, one-size-fits-all approach that many coaches take.
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Key Highlights
Rather than using the human experience to develop technology, Jim shares how he uses technology to understand and enhance the human experience.
While quantitative data can be incredibly helpful, you still need to glean actionable steps from your interpretation of that data. Find out how Hyperice aims to stay on the cutting edge with their technology while always providing a stellar experience for their users.
Jim speaks on the new HyperSmart technology, which curates content from their wearable devices and provides recommendations on how and when to use the products.
HyperSmart focuses on three buckets: warmup, recovery, and body maintenance. Most people understand the first two. Jim explains how he is trying to get people to change their habits via HyperSmart to better maintain their body.
Jim touches on how he intends to incorporate the importance of sleep into the Hyperice technology in the near future.
Powerful Quotes by Jim Huether
What’s really interesting to me, from a big picture perspective, is that with the emergence of all the data, the wearable devices, and new technologies, people are caring more about understanding the human body.
If you understand what’s going on in your body, and you can extrapolate the data and understand what it means then you can provide more of an accurate service, accommodation, recommendation, or whatever it may be to improve the human body and get it back on track.
You only have one body. We really believe that the more we teach and educate people about how important it is to take care of it, the more effective we can be in this world as a company.
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