On Performance People this week, Greg Whyte, OBE is a former Olympian and a Sports Scientist. He won European bronze and World Championship silver medals, also competing in two Olympic Games, representing Great Britain in the Modern Pentathlon. Whyte is the mastermind behind so many of the Sport Relief and Comic Relief celebrity challenges working with the likes David Walliams, John Bishop, James Cracknell, Cheryl Cole, Gary Barlow, and Eddie Izzard to raise huge sums of money for charity. He is also a Professor in Applied Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moores University and a UK authority on Exercise Physiology, Sports Performance & Rehabilitation. He shares his knowledge of how to prepare for huge physical challenges, why sleep is dangerously undervalued and his philosophy on exercise as medicine. #PerformancePeople #GregWhyte #ComicRelief Follow us for more: http://www.performancepeoplepodcast.com/ https://facebook.com/performancepeoplepodcast https://www.instagram.com/performance.people/ https://twitter.com/performanceppl https://www.tiktok.com/@performancepeople Ben + Georgie Ainslie’s new podcast, Performance People sees the sport loving couple chat to high performance people in sport, entertainment, business and politics. Join the most successful Olympic sailor in history and his broadcaster wife for this four way conversation as they get the scoop on how to perform better as told by those operating at the top of their game and those who have been on the journey with them. Why Sleep Is Like a Bank Account and We Mustn’t Overspend by Professor Greg Whyte OBE