71. Wellness and Winning in Women's Sports with Ali Riley

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Follow the soccer career and life of Ali, from her early days playing youth soccer in Los Angeles to eventually captaining the New Zealand national team. Ali discusses growing up with a coach for a dad, getting the opportunity to play for New Zealand's U20 team, becoming a starter at Stanford University, and her long professional career in the US and Europe. She talks about the challenges of playing for multiple teams across the world, learning Swedish while playing in Sweden, and representing New Zealand in 5 World Cups and 4 Olympics over her storied career. Now playing for Angel City FC in LA, Ali has also become a health coach and cookbook author. She provides insight into maintaining her health and fitness as a player over 20+ years as a pro athelete.

00:00:00 Paleo Fitness on Women in Sports

00:02:41 Meet New Zealand Soccer Captain Ali Riley

00:06:59 The New Zealand soccer legend

00:11:57 Ali Riley on Playing for the US national team

00:14:37 Ali Riley on her health and wellness journey

00:20:22 Ali Riley on her Peak Performance Routine

00:24:58 CBD in your diet

00:25:44 Favorite Recipes from Your Cookbook

00:27:43 What is training like for the national team?

00:29:52 Ali Riley on Women's Soccer

00:35:31 Dreams of Playing Sports Pro

00:38:24 Ali Riley on Her Swedish Fluency

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0:00.0	So what advice would you give, like, young girls who have dreams of playing sports professionally?
0:06.1	I think, gosh, there's a few parts of it, I would say, on the physical side, that loving your body,
0:14.9	taking care of your body is so important and really, with the right foods, real foods, enough food, drinking water, all of those things.
0:26.5	Like, we need to be strong. You don't want to get sick. You don't want to get an injury.
0:32.1	Like, it can be so hard to come back from that at a young age.
0:48.5	Hey, everyone, Morgan here, co-founder and president of Primal Kitchen.
0:51.5	And today I'm super excited to be chatting with Allie Riley.
0:53.3	She was born and raised in Los Angeles.
1:11.6	But soccer has taken her all over the world. She currently captains the New Zealand national team and Angel City FC. She's represented New Zealand at five FIFA World Cups and four Olympic Games. In 2023, she led the New Zealand national team to the country's first ever World Cup win, and she's now the captain for Angel City in Los Angeles.
1:17.1	She's also a certified health coach, a published cookbook author, and has a passion for all things food.
1:23.3	She's committed to using her platform to help create accessibility to healthy food options and advocate for women in sports.
1:24.8	Hello, how are you?
1:33.7	Hi, good, thank you. I'm so excited to be on your podcast. Yeah, welcome. We're super excited to have you. So for those listening, I'll just like give us a little brief intro. Like, I want to know how you got into soccer. Was it always soccer? Were you playing other sports growing up? Like, give me the sports background. Well, it has been soccer for a very long time.
1:47.8	Growing up in L.A.
1:48.8	It was very common.
1:50.0	All of my friends were playing.
1:51.1	And I started out playing YMCA.
1:53.1	My dad was the coach, of course, for probably, my gosh, from when I was about four
1:58.5	until I would say 14.
2:00.6	He was my coach. No way.
2:02.4	I was a late bloomer with the club, club soccer. Yeah. Um, soccer was my favorite. I loved that
2:09.1	it was a team sport, but I did it all. Gymnastics at school. I did softball, track, tennis,
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