Don't look at the calories actually, because that's why we don't have them all year round! Kerstin: Alex, I'm Dutch. Alex: Talk to me a bit more about life at home because you grew up in what, a remote part of the Netherlands? Alex: I feel like it was always definite you were going to go on and be an athlete then? Kerstin: At that time I was really struggling to keep up in school, to get ready for tests and also do all my football.