What young athletes need to know: Periods, bone injuries, and eating enough with DPT and Coach Bethany Brausen
Release Date: 05/07/2026
Nutrition: Signs You're Actually Eating Enough as an Athlete (and How to do That!), with Dietitian KC Stockmon
Lane 9 Podcast
"The [symtpoms] of under-fueling, and REDs, make it a lot harder to meet your [calorie] needs," shares dietitian KC Stockmon. "It's kind of this vicious cycle." We're here to talk about how many calories an athlete actually needs to be eating, WHY it's important to eat enough, and the symptoms of under-fueling. The problem is, under-fueling is so common in athletics that athletes are quick to dismiss their symptoms as just "part of training". When actually, if the body has the energy—aka calories—that it needs to function well *and* recover from your training sessions, you might feel...
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Eating Disorder History, Stress Fractures, and Finally Fueling Enough for a Big Marathon PR with Amy Sams
Lane 9 Podcast
" I also learned the hard way. I did pay the price for several years. I had a lot of injuries, and I was in the stress fracture cycle for seven years. And that was a wake-up call. It really showed me you're not invincible and, and you're gonna have to really learn how to do this differently," shares longtime Lane 9 supporter and community member, Amy Sams. Amy reached out to Lane 9 last Fall seeking support from a dietitian in our Directory, finally ready to fueling adequately as she approached the California Internation Marathon in December (2025), with the goal to break 2:50 for the...
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What young athletes need to know: Periods, bone injuries, and eating enough with DPT and Coach Bethany Brausen
Lane 9 Podcast
"It took me several injuries to really figure out...this is going to keep happening unless I do something big about it," shares coach and DPT Bethany Brausen, a member of the Lane 9 Membership and clinical directory. And we want to help young athletes figure those things out a lot sooner, so they have more fun training and competing, tap into their athletic potential, and/or find longevity in the sports they love. This conversation covers periods, bone stress injuries, team culture and conversations about fueling and menstrual health, when to pause training or take seasons off if...
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Athlete Perfectionism & Exploring Self-Worth in Sports with Dr. Savannah Landis
Lane 9 Podcast
"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 Clinician, asks us to consider how perfectionism shows up in our sport experiences, and how to nurture a sense of self in and outside of sport, for athletes at all ages. Dr. Savannah Landis is a licensed clinical and sports psychologist specializing in treating athletes with eating disorders as well as mental health issues regarding perfectionism, self-esteem, and identitiy. She was a competitive swimmer in college, and works with athletes at all...
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Molly Huddle: Pregnancy fears, support systems, and how SHE has navigated training with two kids
Lane 9 Podcast
"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 pregnant, it seemed like they disappeared. And if they came back, it seemed like it was against all odds," Molly Huddle shares with the Lane 9 Podcast. She is a 2x Olympian, has competed in six Olympic Trials throughout her career, and has run professionally with Saucony for 20 years. She has set multiple American Records, including the 5K, 10K, 10-miler and half-marathon, a few of which she still holds. And she was one of the first athletes to benefit from...
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Pep Talk: You're NOT the Exception to Adequate Fuel, Periods, and Rest
Lane 9 Podcast
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! We're sharing this one because we are fully in the swing of the Spring sport season, and that might mean that you're bumping up against some internal resistance to do the things that you know would be helpful, but would also require changing some old habits. You could be fueling more carb loading, or just eating enough in general. You could be focusing on getting your period back. You could be tapering or taking more consistent rest days. But if...
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Pro Runner Gabi Rooker on Fibroids, Fertility Treatments, and Training for Boston 2026
Lane 9 Podcast
" I've had a lot of colleagues who have navigated infertility and have been really open about it, which has helped me." Professional runner Gabi Rooker joins the Lane 9 Podcast to talk about discovering she had a grapefruit-sized fibroid outside of her uterus, getting it removed, and navigating fertility treatments while still training for marathons like Chicago in 2025, and Boston 2026. She's been open about this process and how it's going for her, to help the next person navigate through own experiences and feel less alone along the way! Follow and cheer for Gabi via her Instagram...
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Carbohydrates: What athletes need to know, with dietitian Brooke Czarnecki
Lane 9 Podcast
"The athletic person is going to need more calories overall, and a lot of those calories should be coming from carbohydrates," shares Lane 9 clinician, . We are talking ALL about carbs on this episode! We talk about why athletes need to skirt the general nutrition advice and focus more on their unique needs, especially when it comes to carbs. We talk specifics, we talk tracking, we talk Low Carbohydrate Availability, and much more. If you've noticed that your hemoglobin A1c numbers are high, or are wondering how low energy/carbohydrate availability may impact these biomarker, here's a great...
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A Connection Between Perimenopause, Disordered Eating, and REDs with researcher and clinician Meghan Vogt
Lane 9 Podcast
"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, Meghan Vogt. Meghan is part of the Lane 9 Clinician Membership and Directory, and posted to the Lane 9 Project Substack a few months ago, as she began to collect data for her dissertation project. She's studying "The Overlooked Connection Between Perimenopause, Disordered Eating, and REDs", as both a clinician, and someone with lived experience as an athlete navigating perimenopause, through a system that wasn't, and still isn't fully, designed to...
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You're injured (as an athlete). Now what?, with mental performance coach Olivia Papakyrikos
Lane 9 Podcast
"Injury is part of the athletic experience. Burnout, setbacks, losses...all of these things are part of being an athlete. There's nothing you can do to eliminate ALL risk of that," shares licensed therapist and sport psychology consultant, Olivia Papakyrikos. She is part of our . Olivia was a collegiate athlete, and now supports athletes navigating things like injuries, body image struggles, and life transitions. We talk about the stages of grief an athlete may experience when navigating an injury, why it's actually so disruptive to our sense of identity, and what to do about that. ...
info_outline"It took me several injuries to really figure out...this is going to keep happening unless I do something big about it," shares coach and DPT Bethany Brausen, a member of the Lane 9 Membership and clinical directory.
And we want to help young athletes figure those things out a lot sooner, so they have more fun training and competing, tap into their athletic potential, and/or find longevity in the sports they love.
This conversation covers periods, bone stress injuries, team culture and conversations about fueling and menstrual health, when to pause training or take seasons off if an athlete isn't menstruating, and how to connect with a clinical care team when needed.
Bethany Brausen is a a Minnesota-based board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist and doctor of physical therapy. She's also a running coach for a high school cross country team. We talk about her experience as an athlete, and how she's taking what she learned, combined with her clinical expertise, to create healthier training and performance environments for her team.
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