Dr. Kelly Starrett
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Yeah, what kid likes to exercise?
No one, but you know what kids likes to play tag and scramble and climb and play games?
Every kid.
So I think, imagine if we just took our adult sensibility
Let me introduce you to the Peloton, Johnny.
You're 12.
Like that sucks.
That's a sucky life.
I mean, that is the, you know, that's not a steer child sport life.
And there are mutants out there who, you know, who probably picked up early, but that's not the whole.
And I think if we, I'm going to shout out a gentleman named Jeremy Frisch.
You can see how he programs for long-term youth athletic development in his community and the number of tag games and diving and problem solving and skills.
And you're like, oh, that's PE.
It really should look like that.
So, I mean, do my kids need to front squat heavy early, right?
This is like, you know, like, no, but what we're doing is we're trying to solve with a complex thing, a complex problem with a simple solution.
Like our kids need to be jumping and crawling and sprinting.
Like you're going to try to replicate sprinting with a child, like when the gym that's for adults, right?
We can start to layer in formal instruction early.
That's what gymnastics and tumbling and parkour looks like, right?