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High performers have a team behind their Mind, Body, and Energy development every day.

Now your child can too.

Ready First helps kids win at home so they’re better prepared to win when they step outside.

What readiness is

Your child has a Readiness State. Do you know what it is?

Readiness is the result of how prepared your child’s Mind, Body and Energy are for the day. It’s built at home, in sleep, food, and mood, long before they reach the field.

You don’t have to be raising the next Olympian to need this. Watch why.

R1 Ready First is known performance, so you can stop hoping.

Why “known performance”

If you’re waiting to find out whether they’re ready, that’s hope performance. R1 Ready First is the first human performance system made for children. We’ve taken the best practices and simplified them, so you can see how your child is tracking and how ready they are to learn, compete and handle pressure.

Support while they develop

A daily readiness system for how your child thinks, moves, and fuels.

R1 assesses your child with real science, then helps prepare their Mind, Body and Energy every day. Not a PDF or a leaderboard. A support team that would cost thousands.

Mind

Confidence is trained, not wished for. The same tools elite mental performance coaches use, sized for all ages.

Body

Training built for growing bodies. Learn whether their movement supports their performance or feeds the mechanisms of injury.

Energy

Food has no villains. Every choice is Great, Good or Fun, and small choices compound into readiness a child can feel.

A boy does push-ups on a mat in his bedroom, following the R1 push-up demonstration on a phone mounted on a small tripod
Built between practices: a home session, guided in R1.

Suitable for all ages. Training for something, or just growing into themselves. Active across 40 sports. See the daily practice in How It Works →

The long arc

The same child. Two different outcomes.

R1 doesn’t take snapshots. It follows your child’s readiness day after day, adapts as they grow, and keeps the picture visible through the seasons when it matters most.

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Every child dips during adolescence. The dip is normal.

What R1 does in the dip

Confidence wobbles, energy shifts, and quitting starts to look easier than leaning into hard things. In that dip, R1 gives a child support, a parent understanding, and coaches, teachers, and mentors a guide.

Why home comes first

Home is where Mind, Body, and Energy get built.

A father and his teenage son walk side by side across a car park toward a sports facility at golden hour

The drive home used to be the quiet part. Now he tells you where his energy’s at, what he’s building, what tomorrow asks. A way to talk about the day that isn’t evaluation.

R1 turns the drive home into connection.

A father and his teenage son walk side by side across a car park toward a sports facility at golden hour

The drive home used to be the quiet part. Now he tells you where his energy’s at, what he’s building, what tomorrow asks. A way to talk about the day that isn’t evaluation.

R1 turns the drive home into connection.

No ads. No data sales. No comparisons. No pressure.

No ads, ever. R1 answers to you, not advertisers.

Your child’s data belongs to your child – nothing is ever sold.

Readiness is personal – never a ranking against other kids.

Their state, in age-appropriate language – positive, never punitive.

You see everything and control every sharing permission.

What coaches see

Coaches see readiness only – no raw scores, no personal information. R1 exists to connect the adults around a child – never to watch the child.

Winning with Ready First

Organizations putting their athletes’ wellbeing first.

Join this group of esteemed organizations by advocating for or integrating Ready First to support the whole athlete. Contact today →

  • Barnes Tennis Center, Youth Tennis San Diego
  • La Jolla Youth Baseball, est. 1952
  • La Jolla Fencing Academy, Spartak Fencing Club
  • Riverhead Athletic Club
From parents

What it sounds like at home.

“My 6 year old son was having a rough day. I went into Mind, found the Calm down breathing exercise. We did the box breathing exercise. When we were done, he simply said, Dad, I love this app!”
Father in the UK
“My daughter uses Ready First every day to help her understand what she needs to do. She’s very sporty and wants to do her best to try to get into a Division I college and play sport, period. It’s helped her with feeling like she’s in control of what she needs to do each day to get the most out of all of her practices and competitions.”
Mother in the USA
“My son struggles to eat good foods, but after a couple weeks of using the Ready First app, he finds it fun to go and see if the foods he’s eating are good for him, great for him, or fun for him. And then he started to pick foods that are more good and great for him, but still allowing himself to have fun too.”
Father in New Zealand
Pricing

One plan for your child. Or one for the whole family.

Download R1 from the App Store or Google Play and subscribe in the app.

R1 is live on the App Store and Google Play. Get the app →

The team behind R1

Built by people who’ve spent their careers protecting elite athletes. Now ready for every child.

Dr. Matt Kritz, Founder and CEO
Dr. Matt Kritz, PhD, CSCS
Founder & CEO · Body pillar
Built integrated performance systems for elite athletes: strength, sports medicine, mental skills, sleep, nutrition, recovery. 25+ years. 40+ Olympic and World Championship medal performances.
Brian Alexander
Brian Alexander, MA, CMPC
Co-Founder · Mind pillar
Former Olympic Team Member (U.S. National Water Polo). Certified Mental Performance Consultant. Supported Team USA Water Polo’s 2024 Olympic bronze.
Dr. Richard Swinbourne
Dr. Richard Swinbourne, PhD
Co-Founder · Energy pillar
Sleep scientist & dietitian. 15+ years in elite sport. Former Singapore Sport Institute. Currently with the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee.
Dr. Alexandra Abbott
Dr. Alexandra Abbott, MD
Advisor · Sports Medicine
Board-certified in pediatrics & sports medicine. Former UCLA, LA Lakers, LA Dodgers, LA Sparks. Practicing pediatric sports medicine physician.

Twenty-five years building this for Olympians. Now built for the child at your kitchen table.

Young soccer players in blue jerseys share smiles and a raised-hand celebration on a sunlit field, the ball at their feet

When readiness is visible…

Kids have a better chance to thrive, not just survive.

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Times have changed.
A child’s well-being isn’t guaranteed.
Until now.

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