
Athlete Perfectionism & Exploring Self-Worth in Sports with Dr. Savannah Landis
"Being the best is not the end all be all. And can you have self-confidence [in sport] without being the best?" Dr. Savannah Landis, Lane 9...
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Dietitians have a lot to say about nutrition, food, and health. Join host Heather Caplan and her registered dietitian (RD) peers as they talk shop, share their philosophies, and keep it real...

"Being the best is not the end all be all. And can you have self-confidence [in sport] without being the best?" Dr. Savannah Landis, Lane 9...

"I was honestly terrified of [pregnancy]. I feel like whenever I looked around in the sport, I didn't see it. And if someone did get pregnan...

You're about the toe the line for your spring goal race, or you're mid-season for your sport and it's getting intense. Let's have a pep talk...

" I've had a lot of colleagues who have navigated infertility and have been really open about it, which has helped me." Professional runner...

"The athletic person is going to need more calories overall, and a lot of those calories should be coming from carbohydrates," shares Lane 9...

"We are not done [as athletes], by a certain age. And we should be able to push for what we want," shares athlete, advocate, and clinician,...

"Injury is part of the athletic experience. Burnout, setbacks, losses...all of these things are part of being an athlete. There's nothing yo...

"Over the years, clients have shown me that recovery begins in spaces where they feel safe enough to tell the truth." It's Eating Disorder A...

"The first time [younger female athletes] work with a barbell or trap bar or something, you can see it. They're like, 'this is bada**, this...

"I had girls come up to me and say, 'I haven't had my period in X amount of time, how do I get it back?'" Gracen Key, head coach for the Wom...

"That really was the biggest thing during my marathon build is like, wow. Reminding myself to get back into those [fueling] habits, but also...

"There are a lot of outside influences that challenge the way we experience our body, which accumulates to our own personal body image," sha...

We are coming up on Lane 9's 9th birthday!! This episode gives you a big update on a new thing in Lane 9, for our athletes. Listen first, th...

" It's interesting looking back because I normalized being hungry, normalized being super tired... and when you don't know that that's not n...

"I was prioritizing the general trend toward a carb load, but it really kind of stressed me out in a way that I was a little bit surprised b...

" Consider why you want to do this. What are the motivating factors for completing the marathon right this second? What are your long-term h...

"You might think, 'On the other side of this, if I'm not even guaranteed better performance, Why would I do it?' That comes down to our valu...

"I'd rather suck at running and have my life back," Erin McDonald, who just won the 2025 Detroit Free Press International Half Marathon in 1...

"Athletes aren't immune to that messaging of like, 'carbs are bad, you shouldn't have carbs, and they're the worst thing ever.' But we know...

" You can't ultimately control what happens in a race. And so you convince yourself you can, right? Or you tell yourself, well, if I control...

"I've never had a very lean body type. I kept showing up to these triathlons with lean-looking people and second-guessing if I deserved to b...

"I've found that athletes vastly underestimate their [energy] needs," shares Heather Caplan RDN, co-founder of Lane 9, in this Q&A-style epi...

"Once I started to really add fueling into the long runs...I realized how much that was helping the next run," shares Dr. Leah Avery DPT. Le...

"I weighed more as a professional runner than I did in college, and I ran faster as a professional runner," shares sports dietitian Maddie A...

" When I eventually figured out my food intolerances and a better relationship with fueling, I brought [my marathon PR] down to 2:44 within...

" I think young people often don't get that chance to like take a step back [from sport] and say like, is this working [for me]?" shares Kal...

"There's nothing wrong with getting a little out of shape. It's okay! We shouldn't be in our peak or prime all the time," shares Stevie Lyn...

"I was the last [athlete] in my recruiting class by my senior year," shares Asia Rawls, aka Coach Brown Bambi, reflecting on the challenges...

" I mean, half of our cross country team in college, I would say had disordered eating," shares Maddie Barrett, of Joyful Run Coaching. She'...

" Eating disorders sometimes even mimic OCD. And by that I mean there is a compulsion that satisfies an obsession or an urge," shares therap...

" I believed that what it took to get back to where I was year before was I needed to lose weight, so kinda overnight did a whole 180—was re...

"... the overwhelming majority of people who identify as women, that run, have at one time had an eating disorder or disordered eating, or a...

" I did have some moments where I questioned if I'd ever be the runner I was [before having a kid]", shares Carly Gill Larios, a 2:42 marath...

" I was not someone that anyone, including myself, would've thought was gonna make an Olympic team one day." Kim Conley is a 2x Olympian in...

"I think runners specifically are convinced that sh*tting your pants is normal...I see stuff all the time online of people saying, 'Oh, runn...

"I saw the tie between, you know, delaying recovery, restricting food and ending up with a bone injury in my foot. And it was part of why I...

" ...definitely we're underrepresented and I think especially with the state of our country and the world now, it can be really scary to put...

" We have a lot of work to do to help improve the health of [running] culture, like the basic understanding of what it means to be a healthy...

" I just needed to do all of those things for myself before I really talked about it publicly. Plus, I was not in a great head space about i...

" I think I was just trying to make only running work for me and I just am not the kind of person that can only run. I need other things in...

"My big fear with all of this is the trickle down," Dr. Sasha Gollish joins us on the episode, to chat about her work in Gender Equity in sp...

"I didn't know what I was doing at all...I didn't take any gels in my first marathon...Now I take gels like every 5K or sometimes every 30 m...

"For so long, every conversation, every day, was like, 'what is your weight?' So really like reinforcing confidence and performance all arou...

"{Houston} was a really great season opener and showed me again that I could fuel like I even fuel in the half marathon now, it's I'm able t...

"I had lost my period for a year. I was definitely not eating nearly enough, eating healthy to an extreme point... it was a very unhealthy r...

"I feel like on every team I've been on, I've been someone who has eaten the most...which is sometimes a little daunting." Annie Rodenfels j...

"I think for so many years I was married to like, if I don't get the run in, I don't feel like I got a quality workout in and I just don't f...

"It's an act of resistance, in taking care ourselves, especially for those of us who have had a disordred relationship with food. Take care...

"It was pressure I put on myself. Because I saw other athletes and I wanted to be part of that, okay, look, I want to prove that they did th...

" I absolutely know, had I not made that decision to go back into treatment, I would be still spinning my wheels in like a very, very harmfu...