Dr. Kelly Starrett

They asked Caroline to be the goalie for a different team when she was a junior.

And I was like, too late.

If you want to do this, you're all in on this because that's what it takes to play at these levels.

And simultaneously –

One of the, I think, real opportunities we have to protect kids is to get them a little stronger and a little fitter.

And that can be very simple, classic strength and conditioning.

We have a lot of parents who come up to us and say, hey, my daughter's been recruited or my son's been recruited, but the coach is asking him what his front squat is and what his power clean is.

What are those things?

And we're like, your child's 18 and has never been in a formal strength and conditioning program.

That's crazy.

So we're going to have to...

start to add some of that back in as we get into high school so that we can come a little bit more durable, but also some of those things can happen in your own home.

Well, I tell it, you know, without giving the whole thing away, we have real talks.

We can establish what the research says about needing sleep, but real tactics about how you're going to solve that sleep problem.

Okay.

The fueling is such a problem.

We see hugely under fueled kids who,

who are, I'll say, malnourished and under-fueled, drinking a lot of energy drinks, eating a lot of reactive snacks.

I'm starving.

I eat a bag of Doritos.