An interview with Dr. Tyler Spencer, Founder and Executive Director at Grassroots Health. Yes, physical activity is an absolute core component of every single element of the curriculum. And you're exactly right, physical activity for many students is a hook to be, to want to be involved, to have fun, to engage with the curriculum. Physical activity, I think probably for the audience of this podcast, is also a method for helping students retain the information. It's also helpful for keeping students focused throughout the school day, being able to move their bodies. Dr. Tyler Spencer Grassroots Health origin story Physical activity as core to the curriculum Incorporating fun and games Collegiate athletes coaching middle school students Treating movement and health as a core topic A bottom-up and a top-down approach https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Dr. Karlie Intlekofer, Co-Founder at Treo Wellness and Global Wellness Researcher at Matrix Fitness And I should mention for anyone who's interested in longevity, it's like people talk about the fountain of youth. And it's like movement is so central to that you really can't live your best life in terms of well-being or brain function or any of the above in a body that is sedentary. Dr. Karlie Intlekofer Inspiration for studying neuroscience and behavior Studies linking exercise and brain health Messaging the brain health benefits of movement https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Tom Farrey, Founder and Executive Director of the Sports & Society Program at The Aspen Institute. And that led to me wanting to solve the problems that were identified in the book. Specifically, how can we be the world's sports superpower while still only, we know, one out of every four or five kids are actually physically active enough. I mean, what was the disconnect with our system? So I had all of this knowledge, all of these insights around policies and sports structure and governance and parent matters, and physiology and on and on and on, and I was like, look, I got to do something with this, someone's got to build a better sport system. Tom Farrey Working at the intersection of sport and the public interest Taking a child-first approach Identifying the gaps and the opportunities Defining success in sports programming Expanding the definition of sport https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore https://projectplay.org/parent-checklists https://projectplay.org/reports

An interview with Debbie Bellenger, Founder/CEO of DB Fitness and Wellness Solutions LLC. I think employees’ voice equals employee choice. And because employees are looking for some of the things that improve mental health, meditation, breathing, yoga, Pilates, walking in nature, forest bathing, hiking, cold plunge. These are all gaining a great deal of interest and momentum. A lot more interest in outdoor activity, hiking, biking, walking, very exciting times. So it I think we're going to see a lot of innovation in corporate wellness in these next several years. Because what we've done in the past will maybe not necessarily suit employees’ needs with this changed work environment and changed interests of our consumers which drive a lot of what it is that we need to provide. Debbie Bellenger Providing customized wellness programs Meeting the needs of employees Creating successful employee wellness programs The success of walking programs Employee wellness trends Incentivizing return to work Opportunity for fitness professionals https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Ashley Hunter, Founder and Executive Director at the Fit Kids Foundation. But all kids, all people need to move and have that physical literacy for their lives. And when you help young kids, young people, learn those movements, learn to love being active, learn that it feels really good on your body and your mind when you move your body. They grow into adults who feel the same way and continue those behaviors. It's sort of like learning a language. Ashley Hunter Fit Kids Foundation origin story Learning the language of movement Scaling the initiative Addressing mental health Fitness, games and sports curriculum Addressing intimidation (and future gymtimidation) Active kids do better Return on investment in movement Governor’s Council addressing mental health and well-being California Moves Focusing time and resources on getting kids moving Addressing the fitness opportunity gap https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Dr. Jonathan Bonnet, an Obesity and Lifestyle Medicine Physician at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Another really important point with any of the anti-obesity drugs that we're talking about nowadays, within the package insert, it tells you it should only be prescribed along with diet and exercise or increased physical activity and reduced caloric consumption. So it makes it explicit that it's actually inappropriate to give them without those things. Dr. Jonathan Bonnet Defining and prescribing lifestyle medicine Lifestyle medicine tools Lifestyle medicine and anti-obesity medications Framing the health benefits of physical activity Prioritizing resistance training Finding health at the gym Reimbursement for exercise services Health & fitness industry opportunity Size of the health & fitness industry opportunity https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Kathleen Tullie, CEO & Founder at Active Kids Active Minds. If you are a concerned mom, it is just in your DNA, you will fight to the end to make sure that your child gets what they need. And nobody understands that until they're a mom. And so I think people just started to see that their kids, their kids that had social issues or academic issues or couldn't sleep, that all of a sudden, little Johnny or Jennifer could go run around on the playground, and they were calmer at school and their anxiety was less and their teacher was reporting they could focus on a problem. And we have really engineered physical activity out of our lifestyles. But our brain doesn't know that. And our body doesn't know that. So, I feel like it's going to have to be parents, caregivers, moms and dads that bring back physical activity to kids. Kathleen Tullie Active Kids Active Minds history and evolution Power of moms The importance of a school champion Reebok and creating a culture of participants Curriculum and skills development Kids as future consumers Movement addressing learning loss Fighting social media and inactivity Active Kids Active Minds future https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Dr. Renee Rogers, Senior Scientist, University of Kansas Medical Center. So I think a big, really important first step is to talk to the patient on the medication currently that you're working with to say, I want to know when something changes. If your dose changes, if you start to experience more side effects, I can't directly change any of that that you're going through, but I want you to be able to communicate those things with me because I have the ability to change your program to reflect that. Dr. Renee Rogers Bio-behavioral research focus Patient-centered approach Anti-obesity medications Reframing the health benefits of physical activity independent of weight loss Patients on anti-obesity medications and physical activity Impact on lean mass Tailoring exercise programs for individuals taking anti-obesity medications Fitness professionals as trusted partners Sustainable behavior change https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Brendan Sullivan, CEO & Founder at ZAMA Health So much of your ability to perform at a high level, whether you're in the fitness community or whether you're an athlete, really comes down to your ability to overcome mental challenges. And some of these are clinical in nature, they can be things from depression or anxiety, but a lot of them are more of like these life stressor events that, if not addressed, do become clinical issues, but still play a role in impacting kind of your ability to work out consistently and perform at this level. Brendan Sullivan ZAMA Health origin story Mental health needs in collegiate athletes Peer support system Self-guided modules on nutrition, sports, psychology, mental health Matching peers Building online community Supporting collegiate athletes’ mental health Supporting fitness consumers' mental health Performance and consistency and mental health Member engagement and retention and mental health Training fitness professionals Integrating healthcare and wellness ZAMA Health meaning https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Clare McSweeney, CEO & Founder at Kuul Play And when we talk about physical literacy development, really, there's no endpoint or no destination, there's no top score in it, which is quite different to most things in education. So your physical literacy journey is continued throughout life, it's over the life course and you can continually improve. Clare McSweeney Kuul Play origin story Addressing decreasing PE minutes Kuul Play platform Inclusive, child-centered approach Educator support Boots-on-the-ground perspective on youth physical activity Physical literacy development https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Dr. Katrina Piercy, Director of Prevention Science, U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesm, and Rachel Fisher, Senior Advisor, President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition. “And so we see that as a big role to take kind of the science and take that translational piece so that Americans have that information, to be able to hopefully make a healthy life for themselves. Dr. Katrina Piercy They really help give us advice at the federal government about how to reach these audiences, and to really meet them where they are, and to share messages that empower all Americans. Rachel Fisher Empowering Americans to be physically active Making the science actionable Catalyzing change in physical activity Addressing barriers to engineer physical activity back into daily lives Linking physical activity and other aspects of health Taking a unified approach through partnerships and collaboration Getting kids moving https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with John Engh, Executive Director of the National Alliance for Youth Sports. So that's kind of our job is to educate them. Let the parents understand who they're dealing with. Let the coach understand what the parents’ expectations are so that when you do start to coach you can actually do the coaching and have a, have a great experience. And of course make it the best that it possibly can for the kids. So I think that's what's so appealing about what we do. John Engh National Alliance for Youth Sports history Training volunteer coaches Safety training Positive coaching Respecting players and officials Youth sports and mental health training Coaches responsibility around mental health Access to free trainings https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk, Professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University. In terms of the actual infrastructure for physical activity, we do fairly well when we're stacked up against other countries. However, where we kind of fall down is on the actual behaviors themselves. So when we actually measure physical activity in the children or sedentary behavior, active transportation, it becomes apparent that we're not taking advantage of that physical activity infrastructure. And we're not really maximizing those opportunities. Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk Report card history Comparing the U.S. with other countries Active transportation Behind the scenes perspective Ten indicators Taking action on youth physical inactivity Sedentary behavior COVID-19 pandemic Chronic and infectious disease and physical activity Active play and family and peers Moving the dial on youth physical inactivity https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Dr. Brad Roy, Executive Director of Logan Health Medical Fitness Center. So yes, we have that broad perspective that we feel as a medically integrated fitness center that's our role is to try to help people of all ages of all conditions, and to find strategies to reach out beyond our doors to people that are out there that would never join a facility or they can't. How can we get them moving? Dr. Brad Roy Logan Health Medical Fitness Center programming and services Community focus Measuring the impact on community health A health coaching approach Journey to Wellness program Measuring health outcomes Stories and statistics Medically integrated fitness centers as lifestyle medicine centers Health coaching approach to youth development Youth sports and skill development EHRs supporting physical activity assessment, prescription and referral https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Grace McNamara, CEO of Exercise Intelligence. So again, hopefully adding trust and credibility for that end user who may or may not know what exercise has, is going to do for them and may or may not also trust the fitness and industry sector. So it's trying to build a trust in all angles, right, with healthcare professionals, with the fitness professional and with the person who's going to be the one accessing the support and being more physically active. Grace McNamara Exercise Intelligence definition Exercise Intelligence platform Addressing trust in healthcare integration Fitness professionals using the platform Closing the feedback loop with technology Window of opportunity for healthcare integration https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with David Flench, President and CEO of the Medical Fitness Association. One of the key aspects is tracking the outcomes for participants and for the program as a whole. Because really making sure that what you're doing is working for these people. That's important, not only for the individual themselves to be seeing those types of results and hearing those types of outcomes, but it's important for the physicians, the medical community who's referring into these programs to know what’s happening. David Flench Medical fitness pathway Medical and commercial fitness differences Medical fitness strategic priorities Medical fitness staffing Collaborative care team MFA certification Medical fitness opportunities https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Dr. Rachelle Reed, Chief Health and Science Officer for SweatHouz And so for me it required a quick mindset shift into how can I help use the science to either improve the product or service or to make the instructors more skilled and/or to help drive the sales process so that we can get more people in the door and keep them for longer? Because if we can keep them for longer, the business is more profitable and they're hopefully earning some of those health benefits that are associated with regular exercise. Dr. Rachelle Reed Academia pathway Industry pathway Communicating science to impact business profitability and consumer behavior Fitness sector as the third space Using data to drive programming and adherence decisions Tips for communicating science to consumers Examples of communicating science to consumers Tips for communicating science to operators https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Pete Moore, Founder of Integrity Square and host of HALO Talks. And look, at the end of the day, health insurance companies need to realize that preventive health is actually a business model. Prescriptive health is not a long term sustainable business model. We can't afford to have 10-year old kids that have type two diabetes. One, that's completely unacceptable from protecting your neighbor, if you want to go back to the 10 commandments, if you will. We need to take care of people, and we need to make sure that they're not marketed to unnecessarily, and we also need to make things accessible and affordable. Pete Moore Health Active Lifestyle Outdoor (HALO) Sector Health & fitness industry meeting the needs of people with obesity Health & fitness industry meeting the needs of older adults Thinking outside the walls of a health club Public-private partnerships Preventive health as a business model Outdoor physical activity Innovation in the sector https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Dr. Ethan Scheiner, author of Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team that Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Their People. So I talked to Martina Navratilova for this book. And she had this incredible line. She actually led to the title of the book. She said, the hockey, the hockey games went beyond sports, they gave people hope. And she said, ultimately, whether they won these games, that was going to help uncover whether they still had, and these are her words, the freedom to win, which is totally incredible and I immediately stole it and made it the title of the book. Dr. Ethan Scheiner Story inspiration Why sports matter The freedom to win at sports Martina Navratilova and freedom Parents as coaches and critics Conditioning and the key to sporting success Writing the hockey scenes https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore

An interview with Amy Boone Thompson, Owner and CEO of IDEA Health & Fitness Association. I keep using the word unify. But it really hasn't been a collaborative, unified industry ever since I've been in this space, and I've been in for over 30 years. Something is happening. And there's a shift right now where we're coming together. Amy Boone Thompson Health & fitness industry background Advocating for fitness professionals Leaning into soft skills IDEA Health & Fitness Association evolution Needs of fitness professionals and operators Professionalization of the sector Movement for all Setting the terminology World Active objectives Collaborating on research and data Call to action Unifying the sector https://www.movetolivemore.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-to-live-more @MovetoLiveMore