Dr. Kelly Starrett

or strength and conditioning becomes the extra place to teach movement skills because kids will become hyper-specialized very quickly.

I'm an outside hitter, I'm a pitcher, I do this one thing, and we don't have a chance to develop the motor skills and problem solving that happens through a diversity in sampling.

So what you can do is recognize that, hey, I can try not to say, okay, I'm going to specialize now in two sports, which is how parents solve the problem.

Now my kid is a lacrosse specialist and a soccer specialist with camps and both, right?

But we have to look at, are there times off?

Specialization is a feature of the system, but we have to now look at when and where we're going to put movement diversity, other play.

And I'll say, I'll take specialization over not moving.

I think it's important to recognize that free play does not exist anymore, will not exist anymore.

That's a construct of Gen X. We used to play in the street.

It just doesn't happen.

And now we're going to have to have these formal movement programming engagement because that's the only place we're going to get that free play in club soccer, club basketball, club those things.

So what can we control?

Are we controlling for those things?

Are your kids eating enough?

Are they sleeping enough?

Do you have the skills to protect what you can protect and control what you can control so that we can keep the kids moving?

And I think if Norway has a phrase, it's like the most kids for the longest.

That's their goal.

The doors are locked.

Stay outside.