Dr. Kelly Starrett
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Podcast Appearances
So if you wake up in the middle of the night, don't panic.
You're just going to lay there and rest.
Super cool.
There is not a single study that says that a child needs less than eight to 10 hours of sleep.
Zero studies say that.
More than that.
So eight to 10, but if you go into the typical teenager and track them, they're not sleeping eight hours.
So we have this fundamental problem where kids are not sleeping, not recovering, not adapting, not growing.
And then we're just adding more volume and more complexity on top of a system that's not adapting to the exercise.
Then we can go to nutrition and then we can like you'll start to see you're like, oh, it's the same conversation.
How do we normalize some of these things and then ask what the next step is?
Well, why does that mentality exist in the first place?
I think every parent wants their kid to get playtime and be recognized as the chosen one and not ride the bench.
And there's a lot there.
What I can talk about is Juliet and I, we β
Drived a lot of experience and a lot of benefits from sport.
So it was really important.
We saw, and we're such fans, but we saw there was an opportunity to get our kids some of those same lessons.
And so we, number one, we just said, hey, sport is not optional here.
But let's define that.