Christian McCaffrey's dad reveals methods for raising young star athletes in America

Youth sports successful America are much competitory than ever, particularly football. One antheral with a way grounds of raising boys who tin thrive is Super Bowl champion wide receiver Ed McCaffrey. 

McCaffrey is the begetter to superstar San Francisco 49ers moving backmost Christian McCaffrey, Washington Commanders wide receiver Luke McCaffrey, Miami Dolphins adjunct manager Max McCaffrey and erstwhile assemblage backmost Dylan McCaffrey. 

"We were lucky. We had large kids who were precise competitive, precise motivated. We did acceptable definite standards. Academics were important to us. We wanted to get them a bully education, truthful if they didn't play good successful the classroom, they wouldn't beryllium allowed to play sports," Ed said. 

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Former Denver Broncos receiver Ed McCaffrey, center, talks to young shot players adjacent to his 2 sons, San Francisco 49ers receiver Max McCaffrey, left, and Carolina Panthers RB Christian McCaffrey, right, astatine the McCaffrey Football Camp astatine Valor Christian High School June 27, 2019.  (Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Handling adversity is simply a captious constituent of absorption successful parenting for the McCaffreys. Ed believed successful parental involution aft moments of adversity successful sports successful particular. 

"After the game, if things don't spell well, either for them personally oregon their team, oregon if they're injured, oregon immoderate clip they're going done a pugnacious time, arsenic a parent, you privation to physique their tone backmost up, pat them connected the backmost and accidental ‘try again,’" helium said. 

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For young athletes, Ed McCaffrey believes wins and losses are little important than the idiosyncratic mindset of competing. 

"If you play to triumph and springiness your champion effort, past you've already won, careless of what the scoreboard is," helium said. 

"It's not astir winning each azygous game. We each privation to win, but you're not going to triumph each crippled you play. It's astir knowing that you gave it everything you perchance could to your team, to your sports."

Stanford's Christian McCaffrey (5) shakes hands with his father, erstwhile NFL wide receiver Ed McCaffrey, arsenic his parent Lisa looks connected aft a outpouring crippled astatine Cagan Stadium. (John W. McDonough/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)

For McCaffrey and his sons, arguably the astir captious facet to their diversion occurrence was their day-to-day lifestyle, particularly fare and getting capable sleep. 

The immense bulk of the McCaffrey sons' meals were cooked astatine location by their mother, Lisa McCaffrey, Ed said, adding Lisa prepared meal for the boys "every night."

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Due to the boys' changeless diversion activity, the parents accrued the magnitude of reddish nutrient and dairy they ate to higher levels than what is recommended for the mean adult. 

"Kids tin devour a small much reddish meat, a small much fat, much dairy," McCaffrey said. 

Sticking with homemade nutrient was adjacent much important erstwhile it came to snacks earlier sporting events. If Ed oregon Lisa gave them immoderate nutrient astatine each earlier games oregon practice, it had to beryllium escaped of definite ingredients and "easily digestible."

SiriusXM big Ed McCaffrey and NFL moving backmost Christian McCaffrey of the Carolina Panthers airs for photos astatine SiriusXM astatine Super Bowl LIV Jan. 30, 2020, successful Miami, Fla.  (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

"It's hard to devour nutrient earlier an lawsuit due to the fact that astir foods person things successful them that are hard to digest, but they person additives successful them that impact your gut, and it's hard to spell and compete," Ed said. "It was truthful important for america erstwhile they were increasing up to springiness them steadfast snacks that were casual to digest." 

One of the astir communal snacks Ed and Lisa fed their sons was homemade macromolecule bites, which has since inspired the household to merchandise its ain enactment of McCaffrey Protein Bites with akin ingredients. Those ingredients see flaxseed, brownish atom and pea protein. They besides made definite to support peanuts retired of the bites due to the fact that of their sons' allergies. 

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