Sleep, Recovery, and the Nutrition Connection: Why Your Athletes Are Tired Your athlete slept 6 hours, drank a Red Bull at lunch, trained for 2 hours, ate dinner at 9 PM, looked at their phone until midnight, and is now asking why they're always exhausted. You know the answer. The challenge is that sleep is one of the most overlooked recovery variables in adolescent athletics — and its interaction with nutrition creates a compounding problem that most coaches don't have tools to address. Th...

Sleep, Recovery, and the Nutrition Connection: Why Your Athletes Are Tired Your athlete slept 6 hours, drank a Red Bull at lunch, trained for 2 hours, ate dinner at 9 PM, looked at their phone until midnight, and is now asking why they're always exhausted. You know the answer. The challenge is that sleep is one of the most overlooked recovery variables in adolescent athletics — and its interaction with nutrition creates a compounding problem that most coaches don't have tools to address. Th...