Move to Live®More: Recent Episodes
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A podcast series featuring thought leaders in healthcare, health and fitness, and communities. We address solutions for chronic disease, obesity and physical inactivity through cross-sector collaboration and innovation.
An interview with Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Father of Aerobics.
Because my big goal, and the last part of this book, my big goal was to bridge the gap between faddism and scientific legitimacy in exercise and the practice of medicine. Now the results are too impressive to be ignored.
Dr. Kenneth Cooper
Inspiration for writing Growing Healthier as You Grow Older
Changing the way the world is practicing medicine
Bridging the gap between faddism and scientific legitimacy
Partnering to make aerobics safe for women
Role modeling physical activity
Feeling better as a motivation to exercise
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An interview with Stephanie Geosits, Founder of All About Sports.
And I think that my passion for sport also comes from the fact that it is so universal. It's global. I just returned from the U17 Women's World Cup in Morocco, and I saw teams from all over the globe. The final eight teams were from four different continents, and each had its own language, and it was just an amazing confluence of these young women and the power of sport to unite us.
Stephanie Geosits
Inspiration for entering the sports industry
Behind the scenes look at the U17 Women’s World Cup
Founding All About Sports
Addressing governance issues in sports
Protecting athletes and coaches
Averting crises with good governance
Challenges and opportunities in the field
Increasing sports participation
Why sports matter
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An interview with Dr. Andrew Mock, Medical Director at Hoag Medical Group.
And I always had this dream of like, what if, rather than people coming to us at the hospital when they're sick, what if we went to them in the places where they were taking care of their health? Why can't the gym be the same place that we are seeing patients? And that's how I started my first year of medical school, is thinking about, what does the gym clinic look like?
Dr. Andrew Mock
Inspiration for becoming a board certified lifestyle medicine physician
Moral imperative for prescribing physical activity
Pillars of lifestyle medicine
Being a trusted voice on physical activity
Reimbursement for physical activity referrals
Cash-based programs versus reimbursement
Incorporating lifestyle medicine education into medical school training
Using technology to accelerate physical activity prescription and referral
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An interview with Elaine Economou, Co-Founder and CEO of MOVE Wellness.
I used to say that people were coming for a six pack, and I was teaching them how to be mindful and more self-aware.
Elaine Economou
Inspiration for entering the health & fitness industry
Supporting clients through their whole health journey
Move Wellness mission
Building relationships with healthcare providers
Helping healthcare partners solve problems
Inspiring empowerment and change
Being trusted experts
Michigan Fitness Association annual conference
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An interview with Chris Powell, Founder of Move One Million.
It's people around the world, and there's every race and there's every religion, and there's every political preference, and there's, it is fully inclusive, because in movement and in humanity, that's, we see through all of it. There is no, when you're doing Move One Million, there is no race, there is no religion, there's no politics, there's nothing. That's off the table. It's humans moving together to the same music. And it's, that's the beauty of it is it is fully inclusive, and it's everybody moving together toward a better quality of life.
Chris Powell
Inspiration for Move One Million
Creating a total body warm–up
Unifying people around the world through movement
Moving kids and parents
Starting Move One Million as a service project
Supporting people with journeys of transformation
Being a trusted voice on health & fitness
Building trust by working within scope of practice
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An interview with Dr. Renee Rogers and Dr. Michael Hosking.
If you don't know the answer to something, it's okay to say you don't know the answer to something and that you'll look into it. And I think that's a really important space for building trust with your patients.
Dr. Renee Rogers
I would say to the boots on the ground fitness professional, if they could learn to shed their pre-existing biases and their thinking about why people exercise, why someone might be coming to the gym, and especially why a person in a larger body, a person who might be obese might be coming to the gym, if they can learn to understand that fitness is a culture with certain shared beliefs, practices, recognize what those are, and learn to see the patient, the person coming in as as a whole human being…
Dr. Michael Hosking
Convening a group of experts for obesity medications in fitness
The role of lifestyle with the use of obesity medications
Guiding the health & fitness industry into a new era
Building trusted, collaborative comprehensive care networks
Putting the patient with obesity first
Building trust with providers and patients
Recognizing the importance of lifestyle change
Leading with science
Health benefits of exercise independent of weight loss
Addressing weight bias and stigma in the health & fitness sector
Calls to action to health & fitness professionals
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An interview with Ross Stewart Campbell, Founder and CEO of Beyond Activ.
I think only in the past five years have we really made true strides in becoming a technology-enabled, data-led, outcomes-driven industry, and with that short window of maturity, I don't think we can beat ourselves up too much that we haven't achieved too much in that space of time.
Ross Stewart Campbell
Switching to the health & fitness sector
Health & fitness sector positioning
Shining a light on the impact of the health & fitness sector
Health & fitness industry best practices
Shifting to an outcomes-driven industry
Bridging the credibility gap
Social wellness trend
Meeting the needs of a broader demographic base
Beyond Activ origin story
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An interview with Dr. Chloë Williamson, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
We're not rational, and the guidelines and the way they're traditionally messaged and have been messaged assumes that humans are rational and that they'll do things that they know is good for them. But in actual fact, your day to day behavior is driven by what you enjoy. And if people can find a physical activity they enjoy and if that's how we can change the way people think about physical activity, to not being a chore, to not being a punishment, not being a way to just burn calories, but a way to have fun and feel good, then I think that's what we need to see.
Dr. Chloë Williamson
Motivation for researching physical activity messaging
Effective physical activity messaging
Physical Activity Messaging Framework
Checklist for physical activity messaging
Messaging physical activity to new mothers
Matching messaging to messaging channels
Changing how people think about physical activity
Prioritizing enjoyment and short-term benefits in physical activity messaging
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An interview with Dr. Kathryn Schmitz, Interim Director of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.
We have one randomized control trial showing, in one group of cancer patients, that there is a disease free survival benefit and a mortality benefit, and we know that there's a lot of nice to have outcomes, right? Nice, nice to have is quality of life, things that are not going to be something that the payer pays for. So there's our challenge, that's the truth, that's the truth of our situation. That's why it's going to be difficult. And I think the challenge provides us one of the first opportunities to be able to really lay all of that bare. And then the question becomes, how do we motivate hospitals, healthcare systems and payers to pay for something when there is no profit in it for them?
Dr. Kathryn Schmitz
Evidence for exercise as a standard of care in cancer treatment
Improving access to exercise oncology programs
Making the case for reimbursement for exercise oncology programs
CMS coverage of supervised exercise training for people with cancer
Moving Through Cancer areas of focus
Prognosis for 2029
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An interview with Barbara Zabawa, Wellness Lawyer, Entrepreneur, Author and Law Professor.
The nefarious wellness practitioner, the ones that are going to give wellness a bad name, wouldn't turn away the vulnerable patient. In fact, they may prey upon the vulnerable patient, and that is wrong and should not be tolerated, and…so the wellness practitioner that wants to give wellness a good name will focus on the empowered consumer, the consumer that even if they have some kind of ailment or condition, they are seeing someone in conventional medical care, they are doing what they can on that side of things, but they want to just empower themselves with additional information, additional tools, additional resources to elevate their well being.
Barbara Zabawa
Differences between healthcare and wellness law
Use of HSAs/FSAs to pay for wellness expenses
The impact of the PHIT Act on wellness law
Working within the law as an exercise professional
Establishing trust through standards
Developing standards for exercise professionals
Meeting the wellness needs of empowered consumers
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An interview with Anne Marie Chaker, reporter and author.
And I want women to start thinking of themselves as more rather than less, and to really lean in into that, and find your strength, and you will feel so good. And that's, that's what I want for them, for all of us.
Motivation for writing LIFT
Changing views on fitness
Building a movement of strength
Connecting strength and confidence
Making strength training appealing to the general population
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An interview with Dr. Marzell Gray and Dr. Alan Beck, Physical Activity Alliance Professional Development Sector.
Everything is local here. We're trying to make this big impact in increasing physical activity across our population, but that takes all of us to do that, and I think a bottom up approach is just as effective as a top down approach. Dr. Alan Beck
People like physicians and nurses that are meeting and seeing patients and clients on a regular basis could easily work with those in the fitness professional world that put a lot of time and effort into their education and certifications, whatever it may be, and working together to really just better population health. Dr. Marzell Gray
Historical intersection of public health and physical activity
Integration of public health and physical activity
Training the future workforce
Finding your people
Hot topics in physical activity and public health
Mentoring future professionals
Physical Activity and Public Health Specialist Certificate
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An interview with Dr. Archelle Georgiou, physician, podcaster, former healthcare executive and journalist
I think the most important piece of news you can use for health is that physical activity is the single most important thing that you can do for your health. Hands down, no question. Nothing holds a candle to the impact of physical activity on your health.
Dr. Archelle Georgiou
Clinician perspective on healthy aging
Starting healthy aging early
Teaching health literacy
Learning how to advocate for your health
Establishing that patients and clinicians are on a level playing field
The importance of community in Blue Zones
Moving naturally as part of healthy aging
Making a difference in your health
Prioritizing physical activity for health
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An interview with Vicki Shepard, Founder and President at Healthy Aging Coalition.
And so when you are born, you start your aging process, and that process as part of a longevity of looking at your aging process. And so what becomes important is, every single day, how do you live your life to assure that it's healthy?
Vicki Shepard
May as older Americans month
Healthy aging definition
Valuing older adults
Owning your age
The importance of movement to healthy aging
Healthy Aging Coalition history
The art of advocacy
Advocating for reimbursement for supervised exercise therapy
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An interview with Scott LaGrand, former professional hockey player and current Senior Director Corporate and Institutional Partnerships at the United States Tennis Association Foundation.
And for me that, that just kind of drove me to, obviously drove me to sports, playing collegiately at Boston College and being drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers and spending nine years playing professional hockey. And that, I believe that sports really kind of is such a positive influence on our lives in so many different ways. How to interact within a team environment, being a team player, having a work ethic, and dealing with, dealing not only with winning, but dealing with losing. And those are all kind of life lessons that I think are critically important.
Scott LaGrand
Learning life lessons through sports
Providing access to safe spaces to play sports
Role modeling as a professional athlete
Creating more opportunities for kids to play sports
USTA Foundation efforts to improve the lives of American youth
Transitioning from a professional athlete to a healthy, active adult
Making an impact in your community
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An interview with Jeff Jeran, Senior Director at Power Wellness.
And I think that's, that's what makes a medical fitness center so special. It's just, it's a community very similar to group exercise. The reason why group exercise is so successful is it builds a tribe, and everyone is part of that, and hold each other kind of accountable when they show up. So I think that's, that's kind of the big part of what makes medical fitness successful.
Jeff Jeran
Medical fitness calling
Medical fitness reaching the 80%
Medical and commercial fitness
Mobile app connecting members and physicians
Integrating into the electronic medical record
Expanding access to medical fitness
Finding a fitness center that meets your needs
Building a community in a medical fitness center
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An interview with Michaela Brown, General Manager at VIDA Fitness & Aura Spa.
So group fitness is certainly not a trend. It is a vital organ of health and fitness. We like to think of group fitness as the heartbeat of our gym here. It sells memberships, right?
Michaela Brown
Group fitness meaning
Group fitness and community
Group fitness as a revenue-generating vital organ
New generation of fitness instructors
DEI in the fitness industry
Health & Fitness Association Foundation meaning
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An interview with Mark Harrington, Jr., President at Healthworks, Republic Fitness and GymIt
So some of the things we look at is, is, how do we get the word out that we're not we're not just some company from another city or owned by private equity that is coming in here to make a buck. How can we be out front and talk about how we really do care about this, and all of our teams care about this, and we were looking for local community partners that share this vision and we can work together to kind of make the entire community more physically active.
Mark Harrington, Jr.
Healthworks origin story
Running a family-owned business
Building community within clubs
Being a good community partner
Giving back with Healthworks Community Fitness
Advocating for the industry
Overcoming bad perceptions of the industry
Fitness trends for 2025
Focus on advocacy and education as part of the HFA Board of Directors
The PHIT Act
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An interview with Joe Nadglowski, President and CEO at Obesity Action Coalition
In fact, in our advocacy work around comprehensive care, we say people should have access to nutrition, physical activity, mental health, and then, and then medicine, surgery, whatever else they need, like that comprehensive care. And I think in my ideal world, if I could wave a wand and create the, the new healthcare system, all of those services would be reimbursed, right?
Joe Nadglowski
Obesity Action Coalition mission and membership
Addressing weight bias and stigma
Benefits of physical activity independent of weight loss
Exercising while taking obesity medications
Partnering with healthcare providers to provide obesity care
Delivering comprehensive care to people living with obesity
Compounded obesity medications
Access to obesity medications
Defining clinical obesity
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An interview with Katie Feltman, CEO at American College of Sports Medicine
And so we really created this new vision statement about movement as our rallying cry. And when you actually sat down and forced that to be the lens through which everything passes, it was magic. It was truly magic.
Katie Feltman
American College of Sports Medicine roles
Delivering education and scientific content to ACSM audiences
Intersection of physical activity and public health
Building community through volunteer service
ACSM vision statement
Physical Activity Alliance partnership
Exercise is Medicine past, present and future
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An interview with David Van Daff, Vice President, Industry Development and Public Affairs at National Academy of Sports Medicine
We are consistently trying to prepare, coach and motivate our professionals to achieve success in the space. That, to me, is, is more of that professionalism, not just standard certification, but really continually be side by side education, tools and resources to help you in your career. Be an effective fitness professional. Do things with evidence based programming, safety and efficacy.
David Van Daff
Health & fitness industry entrance
Industry evolution
Industry staffing and development challenges
Preparing health & fitness professionals to achieve success
Creating comprehensive programs to help people look and feel better
Contributing to the greater good
Finding the fun in physical activity
Educating health & fitness professionals
Benefits of a strategic advisory board
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An interview with Dr. Jessica Bachman, Director of Operations at Stronger U Nutrition
And so it's a really great synergy where the gym is extremely important, and what you're doing there to move towards your goals, but then we can take over and stay within our scope of practice when we're talking about health behaviors, talking about nutrition behaviors.Dr. Jessica Bachman
Stronger U Nutrition origin story
Serving the nutrition and fitness needs of members
Intersection of nutrition and fitness with members taking obesity medications
Personalized nutrition coaching
AI and nutrition coaching
Supporting habit formation
Supporting New Year’s Resolutions
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An interview with Devin Lebrun, SVP Innovation & Strategic Partnerships, and MV Shook, Healthcare & Innovation Manager, at Orangetheory Fitness
There was no lack of care across the people that we talked to and an interest in helping their patients. What we found was there was a lack of tools and support for them to do that, a lack of understanding of how to do it, and the goal would be to help support them there and create quite a frictionless process for them to just integrate it, because there's no lack of a desire to do it, which is really, really helpful to bring this movement to life.Devin Lebrun
With your work and with the resources you've helped us create, we're able to then help educate those providers who are already in our studios of hey, like, if you love this and you're helping treat someone and you think this might be a good solution for them, too, or you have other healthcare provider friends that are looking for that movement solution that they love, like we would love to be something that they consider for that.MV Shook
Orangetheory Fitness Innovation Team role
Science-backed and coach-led workout
Interesting and innovative initiatives
Reaching a broader demographic with Healthcare Advantage
Healthcare Advantage program connecting the clinic and community
Raising awareness among healthcare providers
Subsidized exercise program impact
Connecting the health & fitness industry to healthcare
Reducing healthcare costs
Supporting progress reports back to the healthcare provider
Bringing the exercise as medicine movement to life
Being part of the healthcare continuum
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An interview with Dr. Cate Collings, cardiologist, executive health coach and past president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Once this education piece gets done, you can't put that genie back, that knowledge back in the bottle. Once a medical student or a resident has seen the life changing effects of using exercise and a dose intervention, using nutrition, they just can't not see it anymore.
Dr. Cate Collings
Integrating healthcare and health & fitness in career trajectory
Lifestyle medicine education models
The quintuple aim for healthcare systems
Lifestyle medicine as a first line treatment
Shared medical appointments for delivering lifestyle medicine
Reimbursement for referrals
Representing lifestyle medicine to the American Medical Association
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An interview with Brendan Kelly, Owner and CEO of The Well Being Counseling and Fitness Center and Dr. Ben Davidson, Chair of The Well Being Foundation Board of Directors and a practicing physician.
And so we work with people, kind of try to meet them where they're at and come up with a concrete plan for movement for them, which then, when it's finished, the client gets a copy of the movement plan, and the therapist gets a copy of the movement plan. And then, on an ongoing basis, the therapist will review the plan with the client. If the client is doing well with the plan, they're exercising, they're moving their bodies, then the therapist is is really saying, How do you feel?” Because that's our focus. We always want to bring the exercise back to how does it make you feel?Brendan Kelly
Origin story of the center
Healthcare advisor role
Developing a movement treatment plan
Exercise as a first line treatment
Overcoming financial barriers to supervised exercise
Charting a path toward reimbursement
Provider exercise referral
Exercise as the best mental health medicine with the best side effects
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An interview with Taylor Walsh, Founder and Director of WholeHealthED: The Center for Whole Health Learning in K-12.
As you referred to, each one of these practice areas or domains has a movement driving, whether it's mindfulness or time in nature or nutrition and exercise. They are well entrenched, well established movements already. So we need a movement of movements, and that's what the coalition would be intended to try to pull together…”Taylor Walsh
Background and inspiration for founding WholeHealthED
Impact of five core elements on health
Implementing a whole health learning pilot
Whole health learning as upstream prevention
Creating a movement of movements
Centering child well-being
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An interview with Dr. Euan Ashley, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University.
I mean, it's really my favorite fact of any fact in the world, and it comes up because a lot of the time, and you just made this point well, that people feel they don't have time to exercise. And I get that. And there are lots of ways we can think of helping people answer that question, but, but the way I usually start, which I'm not sure what they think when I tell them this, but, but it's the way I usually start, is by telling them that you definitely have time to exercise, because data has clearly shown that one minute of exercise will buy you five minutes of extra life.Dr. Euan Ashley
Exercise as the single most potent exercise intervention ever known
Reasons for the underprescription of exercise
Motivation for studying exercise as a medical intervention
Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) goals
Molecular map of the body’s response to exercise
Supercharging research on exercise
Return on investment in exercise
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An interview with Simon Matthews, Director at the Global Positive Health Institute.
We know that social, social connection, close relationships, lead to pro health choices, in other words, where we're more likely to make decisions about our health that are good for us when we're socially connected. And there's all sorts of mechanisms for that, including just the idea of social influence, including the idea of role modeling or vicarious learning.Simon Matthews
Background in psychology, fitness and coaching
Lifestyle medicine pillars
Knocking down silos in lifestyle medicine
Linking whole person health and social connection
Building strong social networks
Role modeling
Actionable tips for building social connection
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An interview with Zoya Lehrer, Co-Founder and CEO of Orgo.
So to not lose ourselves right in that runaround and to reflect our own yes, physical needs, but also mental and everything else that comes along with that definitely ties into the way that we think about overall the platform allowing to measure time accurately, and once we do, we can then start to make those better decisions for ourselves.Zoya Lehrer
Orgo sports scheduling app inspiration
Finding a tech solution to a family sports scheduling problem
Benefits of youth sports
Parents as role models
Removing logistics barriers to keep kids in sports
Addressing the logistics gap
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An interview with Kaitlin Brennan, Chief Operating Officer at Leveling the Playing Field.
So in terms of impact, yeah, we recognize that it's more than a soccer ball. It's more than just a pair of cleats. What it really translates to is making sure that that kid has the resources he or she needs to be able to step onto the field comfortably, confidently and safely, to engage in something that could be, you know, a sport they're trying for the first time. It could be a physical education class where it's really the only opportunity they have to engage within organized play.Kaitlin Brennan
Leveling the Playing Field mission and vision
Finding a common sense solution to a real problem
Logistics of sports equipment redistribution
Expanding to different regions
Building trusted partnerships
Removing equipment cost barriers
Project Play Communities
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An interview with Petter Aasa, Co-Founder and CEO of Vitala.
We are being prescribed as a mobile application to the patients, which is guiding them through daily physical activity that's completely based on the users’ unique combinations of their medical diagnosis and comorbidities, functional ability and physical capabilities, musculoskeletal pain levels, their varying daily form and, of course, their own goals and preferences.
Petter Aasa
Vitala inspiration
Physical activity prescription follow-up
Physical activity prescription barriers
Healthcare provider response
Remote therapeutic monitoring
ROI for exercise
Exercise as a magic pill
Making exercise a standard of care for patients worldwide
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An interview with Dr. Jayne Greenberg, North American Chair of the International Sport & Culture Association.
Physical education is the only equitable place where all children, children with disabilities, children from the general population, children from various cultures and communities, underserved populations. It's the only place where there's an equitable opportunity to learn every type of sport and be physically active throughout the school day.Dr. Jayne Greenberg
Career focus on physical educationPhysical education and equity
Partnering successfully
Empowering physical education teachers
Local advocacy
Collective impact
Finding school champions
Quality physical education
Promoting quality physical education
Linking physical education and healthcare costs
Collective goal
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An interview with Dr. Allie Riley, Chief Program Officer at Girls on the Run.
And through that study, we saw 97% of girls develop critical life skills throughout the course of the program. A stat that I think this group of listeners will love is that girls who are least active at the beginning of the season increase their physical activity level by 40%. And they maintain that at the follow-up three months out.Dr. Allie Riley
Girls on the Run Introduction
Volunteer coach model
Empowering girls with life skills, confidence and increased physical activity
Building confidence
Centering the voices of girls
Evidence-based program design
Evaluating program impact
Middle school curriculum
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An interview with Amy Rauworth, Chief Research and Innovation Officer at the Lakeshore Foundation.
And I think that's really important to know that it takes a collective movement, and we all have things that we can contribute. But there's times where I need to step up and step back, and I need to stop with whatever I think might be the best health intervention or the evidence-based approach. And I just listen, and like you said, always center the voices of people with disabilities.Amy Rauworth
Lakeshore Foundation mission and vision
Focusing on disability inclusion
Centering the voices of people with disabilities
Language around disability inclusion
Creating welcoming, inclusive environments
Sport for diplomacy
Advocating for disability inclusion
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An interview with Mark Bayer, Founder at Bayer Strategic Consulting.
With health and fitness, most people are kind of aware generally of what the issues are, right? So leading with the ask is so important, and making, and personalizing it as well. And even asking questions, you know, so it's not a monologue, right? If you just have your speech, and you're gonna deliver that you're gonna deliver that thing. You know, it's not as engaging as if you're talking, you vary your tone a little bit, maybe you pause, you ask an open ended question, things like that. But leading with the ask is the number one.Mark Bayer
Tips for constituents visiting policy makers on Capitol Hill
Leading with the ask in policy maker meetings
Connecting with people before discussing substance
Establishing ourselves as similar to our audience
Making information relevant for the audience
Balancing data and evidence and emotion
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An interview with Liz Clark, President and CEO of the Health & Fitness Association.
And it's something that again, all these lawmakers understand while they're whether they've maybe gone through something personally, or their kids have gone through something personally, or somebody they know and love. In some way, shape or form. I mean, all of us know people that are having mental health challenges. So I just think we have a tremendous opportunity as the as the Foundation Board to be doing more. More ties to that as the solution, more research to that as a solution. And to continue to just elevate that narrative, and then how we are an industry that's inclusive, we are an industry that's affordable.Liz Clark
IHRSA to Health & Fitness Association rebrand
Business owners advocating on Capitol Hill
Messages about military readiness
Connecting the military to local health & fitness centers
Relating to youth sports
Relating to mental health
Making it fun
Working with alliances
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An interview with Dr. Adel Korkor, Founder and CEO of the AB Korkor Foundation for Mental Health.
It's because we are really accustomed to caring for disease, the diabetes, the hypertension, obesity, and all of these. And our healthcare system is really more centric around finding a new treatment for obesity, finding a new drug for diabetes, finding a new drug for hypertension, and not realizing why can’t we get to the root of a problem. Why can't we get back and say okay, you know what, dedicating 15, 20, 30 minutes of physical activity a day can spare us so much more.Dr. Adel Korkor
Discovering the linkage between movement and mental health
Starting a foundation addressing movement and mental health
Finding the root causes of disease
Five Fifty Fifty Run/Walk Series
Foundation initiatives and strategic priorities
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An interview with Jason Sacks, President at Positive Coaching Alliance.
And so I think we need to get organizations to understand and then more specifically, to be able to hold their coaches accountable of what is this culture that you want to create that's going to provide the best possible environment for kids. And in order for kids to feel connected, they need to feel safe, they need to feel seen, heard and valued when they come to that, that practice, that game, whatever it might be.Jason Sacks
Doing youth sports right
Fun in youth sports
Keeping kids in youth sports
Creating a positive coaching experience
Developing physical literacy
Positive youth development
Addressing sports equity gaps
Setting kids up for success with youth sports
Fostering positive coaching experiences
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An interview with Adam Zeitsiff, Chair of the National Health & Fitness Alliance.
This is a great chance for our industry folks and gyms to go out there and build partnerships and get a continual referral stream that has nothing to do with health insurance, co-pays and CPT codes. Just, hey, my doctor just prescribed this to me. He said I should really be lifting weights three or four days a week. How can you help? There’s another customer.Adam Zeitsiff
Advocating for the health & fitness industry
Addressing the youth mental health crisis
Amplifying the voice of the industry
Technology trends supporting physical activity behavior change
Augmenting in-person fitness with AI
Anti-obesity medications as an opportunity for the industry
Prescribing strength training
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An interview with Malorie Polster, Physical Activity Advisor, and Katie Costello, ORISE Health Communications Fellow, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
We've generally found that the main messages of Move Your Way, really promoting the social components of being active. People really do want to get active with their friends, with their family, they don't like to do it alone. And helping people find ways to be active that are really enjoyable or fit well into their lifestyles really do resonate across all of those audiences.Malorie Polster and Katie Costello
Making the Physical Activity Guidelines accessible
Translating the evidence for different audiences
Determining what resonates with different audiences
Positive framing to support consumer behavior change
Communities using the campaign to help community members move their way
Community Playbook resources making an impact
Making the Community Playbook even more actionable and accessible
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An interview with Emma Zwiebler, Interim CEO at the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry.
But one of the key things for our work, particularly around physical activity, is the partnerships that we have. We very much believe that particularly in the case of physical inactivity levels globally, which I'm sure we'll come on to, it's not something that can be resolved by the industry alone. It can't be resolved by governments alone or by policymakers or NGOs. We have to find a way in which we can work together if we are to transform behavior on a global level.Emma Zwiebler
Working together to transform physical activity behavior
Connecting the dots between strategic priorities
Garnering attention for physical activity
Physical inactivity as an existential threat to the sporting goods industry
Public-private partnerships to increase global physical activity levels
Reaching across silos
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An interview with Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Founder of The Cooper Institute and Founder and Chairman at the Cooper Aerobics Center.
I've had hundreds of letters from people telling me I wish I'd known 20 years ago how much better I could feel. But once I got in shape and followed your recommendations, I felt the best I've ever felt in my life. Do you want to enjoy that type of life you're now maximizing your feelings and feeling good, you're not depressed, you're enthusiastic.Dr. Kenneth Cooper
Getting the whole family moving
Debunking fitness myths
Training healthcare providers to talk to patients about movement
Career successes
Moving to live longer, live better
Healthy aging tips
Dr. Cooper advocates the following aerobic-strength training balance:
- If you’re 40 years old or younger, devote 80 percent of your workout time to aerobic training and 20 percent to strength training.
- If you’re 41 to 50 years old, shift to 70 percent aerobic and 30 percent strength work.
- If you’re 51 to 60, do 60 percent aerobic exercise and 40 percent strength training.
- After you pass 60, divide your workout time more evenly between the two strategies – while still giving an edge to aerobic exercise, which provides the most health benefits: 55 percent aerobic work and 45 percent strength work.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 PiercyThey 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An interview with Dr. Elaine O'Brien, author of *The Power of Play: Optimize Your Joy Potential.
Then there's the biochemical things, right?, the dopamine that we get when we're playing, the brain derived neurotrophic factor, we can just really connect with people on a bigger level. We have a saying, let joy be your magnet. So if you can prime joy in your day, every day, it just helps you to really live your life more fully, more vibrantly. And I think going through the years, that's a real protective factor for you in terms of helping you to be more resilient…*Dr. Elaine O'Brien
Positive psychology
Dance fitness and flow
Influence of dance fitness background
Dance fitness instructors helping others
Movement and play
Play and joy
Play and well-being
The science of play
The downsides of not playing
Finding flow while writing
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An interview with Ryan Glatt, Senior Brain Health Coach and Director of FitBrain at Pacific Neuroscience Institute Foundation. And often what I find in order to get towards a what we call a brain healthy exercise prescription, whether that's an individual who wants to prevent dementia, an individual with mild cognitive impairment or a person with Parkinson's disease, the prescription is that 150 to 300 minutes moderate to vigorous physical activity minimum per week, but also adding some variety. So you want some aerobic, you want some resistance training and you also want neuromotor.Ryan Glatt
Brain health coaching
Specialization in brain health
Reason for specializing in brain health
Dual tasking
Brain healthy exercise prescription
Evidence base linking exercise and brain health
Whole body of evidence
Health & fitness industry trends
Scientific accuracy
Referral networks for linking brain health and exercise
Achieving optimal brain health
Role modeling
Developing a scientific literacy skill set
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An interview with Jeff Speck, Author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time. How do you create an environment in which people are making the choice to walk or bike, in fact, rather than to drive? And the answer is that the walk has to be as good as the drive. And for the walk to be as good as the drive. It needs to do four things simultaneously. It needs to be useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting. So we look at the factors that contribute to each of those four things. And we try to improve them.Jeff Speck
Urban design and walkability
Supporting the choice to walk or bike
Walkability and longevity
Walkability and COVID
Walkability and quality of life
Walkability and schools
Bike infrastructure
Bikeability and health benefits
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An interview with Francesca Schuler, President of the California Fitness Alliance. And then the long term vision would be hopefully we could get some funding to run an ongoing public service campaign that's all about kind of movement for mental and physical fitness. And that could take a form of a variety of TV ads, billboards, etc. Just inviting people, educating people, building awareness around the importance. We say that pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars and they sell hope in a pill on their TV commercials. I want to sell hope in a workout.Francesca Schuler
Health & fitness industry background
California Fitness Alliance mission
Being at the table
Changing the perception of the health & fitness industry
California Moves Month success
California Equal Pay Pledge
Rebranding the industry
Research linking movement and mental health
Call to action for California Moves Month
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@MovetoLiveMore
An interview with Mike Leveque, Group COO and CEO of the Americas for MyZone®. So it's a heart rate-based platform, but we focus on intensity rather than fitness. And that's sort of the secret sauce of MyZone® is, we wanted to create a system that included gamification, to make sure to keep the member interested and motivated to hit their fitness goals and to continue along their fitness journey.Mike Leveque
MyZone® history and vision
Social connectedness
Motivation
Cooperation and collaboration
Corporate fitness
Congressional Physical Activity Challenge
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An interview with Dr. Carol Maher, Professor of Population and Digital Health at University of South Australia. So it's really interesting that the leading U.S. clinical guidelines for managing depression and anxiety consider exercise as an alternative treatment. Because that really implies that there's not evidence behind it or that it sort of isn't congruent with mainstream medicine. And neither of those things is true. Exercise is very well accepted by mainstream medicine as holding real physical and mental health benefits.Dr. Carol Maher
Study conclusions on effectiveness of exercise and physical activity
Exercise as a mainstay approach
Bridging the evidence gap
Effectiveness of interventions by frequency, intensity, time, type
Effectiveness of shorter programs
Exercise has a larger effect than medication and psychotherapy
Exercise as a legitimate form of treatment for depression and anxiety
Takeaways for clinicians
Takeaways for policy makers
Takeaways for patients
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An interview with The Honorable Rob Wilkins, retired US Air Force Master Sergeant and member of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition. By using our megaphone by using our voice, but I also think by joining forces by bringing more groups together—so be it the VFW, Move to Live More, schools, individuals—all these voices coming together in one big cruise ship liner or something like that. We have more voice, we have more power working together, as opposed to each person trying to do this individually. So by bringing these voices together, we combine resources, we combine skills...
Rob Wilkins
Physical activity champion journey
Lessons learned on the playground
Physical activity and military readiness
President’s Council goals
Joining forces to promote, healthy active lifestyles
National Youth Sports Strategy goal
National Youth Sports Strategy champions
Sports and life skills
Overcoming barriers to being active
President’s Council future
Developing physical activity champions
Physical activity options
Call to action
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An interview with Dr. Jessica Matthews, Associate Professor and Program Director at Point Loma Nazarene University and Director of Health & Wellness Coaching at UC San Diego Health. That shift when you really embody it, and you bring it to the way in which you meet and see the people you serve, it will transform the way in which you then devise a plan forward together, those action steps, the programs, the intentional changes that people make when you see them as an equal partner. And in fact, they're kind of the captain of the ship and you're the co-captain, and that feels weird to some professionals. But it will lead to sustainable change.Dr. Jessica MatthewsThe science of health behavior change
Training health and wellness coaches
Secret sauce for translating knowledge into action
Partnering to achieve health behavior change
Tips for health & fitness professionals on partnering
Whole person approach to health
Role of health coaches on a care team
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An interview with Dr. Rebecca Hasson, Director of the Childhood Disparities Research Laboratory at University of Michigan.
So while working with adults is great, working with children is even more impactful because we can reach them at a very young age when physical activity habits are being formed. And we can help to give them a passion and a lifestyle for moving more throughout the day that can hopefully carry into adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, and all the way until they are senior citizens.Dr. Rebecca Hasson
Motivation to work with kids
Giving children equitable opportunities to move throughout the day
Setting up active classrooms
Partnering with schools
Implementing school wide initiatives
Replicating success
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An interview with Dr. Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of *Fit Nation: the Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession.
A big story is laying out the way that we have the rise of a massive fitness industry and a kind of collective sense that exercise is good for you and you should be exercising more and this is just uncontroversially like a positive thing. Yet, at the same time, we don't believe that hard enough to make it a policy priority or a right of kind of civic participation.*Dr. Natalia Mehlman PetrzelaGroup exercise instructor perspective
Fitness professional challenges
Health & fitness industry labor experience
Fitness professional professionalization
Women in the health & fitness industry
Serving the women’s market
Public versus private sector investment in fitness
Expanding access to fitness
Fixing a broken system
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An interview with Dr. Mary O'Connor and Kanwal Haq, Co-Authors of Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Better Health.
And we simply have to stop expecting the current "healthcare" system to deliver on health. It's not structured that way. It can't do it that way. Doctors and nurses are not trained to do that. And we need to move wellness into communities and leave sick care for the sick care system. And that is a fundamental mind shift that needs to happen if we're going to change the disastrous trajectory of health conditions and chronic conditions in the United States.Dr. Mary O'Connor
Advancing health equity and empowerment
A guide for better self-advocacy
Achieving better health
Behind-the-scenes process
Impacting how women receive healthcare
Addressing social determinants of health
Moving wellness into communities
Movement and physical activity
Creating a community of self-advocates
Changing the health of women, families and communities
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An interview with Dr. Karen Wonders, Founder and CEO of Maple Tree Cancer Alliance.
But when you look at it as a whole and the impact that it has on the patient, the way that I feel is how can we not offer them exercise when we can visibly see the impact that it has in the life of someone? You can't say that about chemotherapy. You can't say that about a lot of the traditional treatments that are out there that are standard of care. Here's something with no side effects, that chemically, mechanically, every single, everything all the way around is going to help someone. And how can we not make this standard of care?Dr. Karen Wonders
Founding story
Making exercise a standard of care in cancer treatment
Empowering cancer patients to exercise
Improving quality of life
Measuring impact on quality of life
Individualized exercise program
Exercise physiologists as part of the care team
Communication within the oncology care team
Community-based fitness center role
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An interview with Dr. Hadiya Green, Founder and President of Healthy Healing Community.
But for me, the coaches who I adore the most and I find are great coaches are the ones who can take someone and take them to the next level. They can adjust their plan and still attain that goal at the end of a person's personal best, in addition to what may contribute to the team. And so I think, an attention to detail, an ability to gauge and meet an athlete where they're at, the ability to understand what an athlete brings to the table both physically and mentally…Dr. Hadiya Green
Beginnings of youth coaching
Great coaches
Meeting athletes where they are
Being your best athlete
Benefits of youth sports
Tips for good coaching
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth sports participation
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An interview with Dr. Michael Hosking, Creator of Revocycle Mind and Body Cycling.
[W]e can start to build from scratch a new fitness that emphasizes the things we're talking about today. Mental wellness, holistic health, meditative movement, mind body practice. I think that's the way we'll make it sustainable.Dr. Michael Hosking
Research on mental health and exercise
Physician exercise prescriptions/referrals
Pathways for exercise benefiting mental health
Marketing exercise and mental health
Building a new fitness industry emphasizing mental wellness
Meeting the needs of clients seeking to address mental health
System change in physician exercise prescriptions/referrals
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An interview with Jason Gootman, Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Wellness Coach.
And for someone who's new to this idea, what you're really doing is acting as a mirror and a magnifying glass. You are showing them who they are, allowing them to grab hold of what they bring to the table that's going to help them be successful in this behavior change process.Jason Gootman
Referrals to wellness coaches
Wellness coaches value proposition
Consumer demand
Wellness coaching success
Tips for other wellness coaches
Standardizing wellness coaching
Marketing wellness coaching
Empowerment
Care team
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An interview with Rob Bisceglie, CEO of Action for Healthy Kids.
The only way I know to approach that issue is from a whole child perspective. I have spent 15 years studying and experiencing this. I see no other way. All the issues that kids face are intertwined. You can't separate them out and say, Oh, we're gonna deal with the nutrition or the physical activity or make sure that they have a connection to a school nurse or make sure that they have mental health support. It is all those things, it's the only way to do it.
Rob Bisceglie
Health as a right for kids
Engaging parents in advocacy for kids’ health
Family-school partnerships
Action for Healthy Kids evolution
Beginning in local health and wellness advocacy
Finding champions
Foundations of lifelong health
Whole child health approach
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An interview with Hal Hargrave, Founder, CEO and President of The Perfect Step.
[T]he need is here. The diverse populations are here. The equitable access and the inclusive programming is not. So how do we create that bridge, and provide that and see where it goes...The club made money by accident, by just creating profit centers that were equitable for clients by way of their price point, inclusive by way of their programming, and they were cultural changing throughout the entire landscape of the commercial health club.Hal Hargrave
The Perfect Step methodology
The Perfect Step mission and vision
Athlete mindset
Creating a community center
Business case for inclusive programming
Removing barriers to inclusive programming
Getting started with inclusive programming
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An interview with Nate Wilkins, Co-Founder of The Ageless Workout.
The years may be accumulating, but we're not aging, we're aging well. And so it's these people who have decided at some point that the barriers are not for us, right? We may move a little bit slower, our minds may not be at the place that it was, but by God, we may be so much better. And we can help younger people matriculate or maneuver through the world. Our wisdom and knowledge and understanding about life might be beneficial to those who are coming behind us.
Nate Wilkins
Being ageless
Positive affirmations and healthy aging
Connection to the health and fitness industry
The ageless tribe and social connection
The ageless tribe characteristics
Personal care
Connection to medical fitness
Knocking down silos
Building a referral network
Advocacy for Black men’s health
Empowering older adults to be self-advocates for their health
Fitness professionals as trusted sources of information
The health and fitness facility of the future
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An interview with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr, host of the Overcoming Working Mom Burnout podcast.
And so I think one of the things that I keep trying to remember in this, and it was really helpful to me is, for moms to not to think about being a martyr in this situation. It's very easy for us to sort of play that role and do everything and then feel resentful about doing everything. That's not the role model that we actually want to play for our daughters in particular because we want them to see, yeah, you don't have to stand by the soccer field, you could go for a walk instead. It's like that we don't have to dedicate ourselves so selflessly to our work or to our children, that us having our own lives and looking after ourselves and prioritizing our needs, that’s the life I want for my daughter.Dr. Jacqueline Kerr
Burnout survivor experience
Identifying and addressing burnout
COVID-19 pandemic and burnout
Parental burnout and youth mental health
Self care and physical activity
Advice for entrepreneurs
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An interview with Tarik Kitson, Founder and Executive Director of Active Plus.
But how about those other kids who don't really care about being an athlete, but they have the right to know what it means to live a healthy lifestyle. You don't have to be a basketball player or a soccer player to be active. We want to be able to show them the foundation and the importance of working out, of walking or running, how to do a proper push-up, how to run properly. You don't have to be the next athlete, but this is why you're doing this. I feel like a lot of time kids think, okay, like, I'm running or I'm doing this just to be a basketball player not even thinking that, this is important for you to just live a longer life, live a productive life, live a healthy life.Tarik Kitson
Active Plus mission and vision
Fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, leadership programming
Train-the-trainer model
COVID-19 pandemic impact on programming
Emergency response work
Meeting students where they are
Helping kids live healthy lifestyles
Access to a variety of programming
Working with community partners
Measuring success
Scaling through technology
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An interview with Dr. Brian Biagioli, USREPS, and Dr. Jim Borchers, USCAH.
For too long we have stood by and really in only certain little corners of athletics paid attention to these issues. But now, medical organizations, fitness organizations, athletic organizations have come together and have really decided that we need to have a standardization to this and we need to professionalize what we're doing.Dr. Jim Borchers with Dr. Brian Biagioli
Goal of best practice recommendations on conditioning programs
Best practice recommendations as guardrails
Development of best practice recommendationsStandard of care
Improving the health, safety and well-being of athletes
Continuing education
Registry of exercise professionals
Minimizing risk of injury and death
Call to action
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An interview with Dr. Melissa Sundermann, Lifestyle and Internal Medicine Physician.
You just did that 10 minutes, you just did a meditation. And that's going to be great for your focus, and, and just feeling better. And I think just like connecting to our sense of self. When we're out in nature and we get rid of all the other distractions, it's using all five of our senses, which can be really powerful. There's not a lot of activities that we do that we use all five of our senses.Dr. Melissa SundermannHealth benefits of moving outdoors in nature
Talking to patients about nature as medicine
Overcoming barriers to access
Supporting parks
Mental health benefits of being active outdoors in nature
Trusted role models
Movement as medicine
Advice for healthcare providers
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An interview with Ken Rose, CDC Chief, Physical Activity and Health Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.
And I think one of the things that we have to recognize as a result of the pandemic is that having places for people to be active and ways in which for them to be active in times of national crisis really is an essential function, not a nice function to have. It is an essential component of our infrastructure.Ken RoseActive People, Healthy Nation goal
Health benefits of physical activity
Framing physical activity as essential
Pandemic preparedness planning
Active People, Healthy Nation strategies
Cross-sector collaboration
Call to action
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An interview with Dr. Dan Bornstein, Founding Principal of DBornsteinSolutions, LLC and Military Sector Chair of the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan.
What is the secondhand smoke of sitting or physical inactivity? I would argue it's national security. And so if we don't do these things to increase the physical activity across our population, we really do put ourselves at risk of being less safe and secure. So individual behavior can impact the masses in this case. And so framing physical inactivity as a national security issue hopefully will generate more interest for more people to do more things to allow more people to become and stay more physically active on a regular basis.Dr. Dan BornsteinConnecting physical activity and military readinessEvolution of physical inactivity as a national security issue
Framing physical inactivity as a national security issue
Return on investment of physical activity
Strategies to address physical inactivity as a national security issue
Knowing what is important to the audience
Physical activity as a household and community issue
Call to action
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An interview with Michele Levy, Founder of Zing!
But that's just what today's kids and schools need. They need a little bit more structure, but a lot more creative play around movement and wellness. I'm just thrilled that we get to help people. As I said, if I want to work my butt off, I want to be doing it for a purpose. And the fact that I get to see people's faces light up every single day is, is wonderful.Michele LevyZing! inspiration
Physical activity and mental health
Role of positive affirmations
Making it fun
Programming ideas
Reaching at-risk children
Meeting the needs of school communities
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An interview with Dr. Jessica Grossmeier, CEO at Jessica Grossmeier Consulting and Author of Reimagining Workplace Well-Being: Fostering a Culture of Purpose, Connection, and Transcendence.
And when asked, the people that quit their jobs last year say I want a more flexible schedule. I want more meaning and purpose and fulfillment in my work. And they want to feel valued, respected and included by their peers. And so these are the needs that employers need to address…Dr. Jessica GrossmeierResponding to emerging workforce trends
The Great Resignation
Evolution from a traditional approach to well-being initiatives
Changing culture
Employer wake-up call
Next generation well-being initiatives
Well-being assessments
Addressing purpose
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An interview with Eric Levitan, Founder and CEO, and Dr. Katie Starr, Scientific Advisor at Vivo.
[A]s we are aging, that strength training component is so important, because not only does it help us maintain muscle mass, it also helps with the quality of the muscle. It helps us reduce that fat that starts to infiltrate that muscle, so that the muscle will continue to contract like it's supposed to, allowing us to continue to do the activities that we want to do, stay independent, and really be able to have that independence that we all crave as we get older and age and want to still do the things that we love with our families, with our spouses, with our friends.Dr. Katie StarrVivo inspiration
Maintaining muscle mass
Creating shared experiences
Measuring success
Importance of strength training
The role of fitness professionals
Creating community and social engagement online
Physical resilience and aging
COVID-19 pandemic impact on vision and model
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An interview with Dina Buchbinder, Founder and President at Education for Sharing.
You will think that play is just something like a nice to have, but it is at the center, at the heart of how we learn and why we learn and the reason that…like in order to really engage with what is relevant today and how can we prepare our brains to learn what we will need, I think it has an intimate relation to play and to movement…Dina BuchbinderPower of play
Play and learning
Play-reflect-take action model
Engaging the community in play
Power of reflection
Good citizenship development
Moving to learn
Building the case for moving to learn
Innovation in education
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An interview with Paula Turicchi, Chief Strategy Officer for Parkland Community Health Plan.
I think that a successful partnership is one that there is a mutual relationship. It is a partnership, it's a collaboration, and there is a shared opportunity to really impact the community.Paula TuricchiParkland Community Health Plan
Taking healthcare out into communities
Assessing community needs
Partnering to connect members to services
Determining fit for partnering
Evaluating return on investment
Using data to drive decision making
Addressing whole person health
Providing gym memberships
Barriers to using gym memberships
Reframing exercise as movement
Defining a successful partnership
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An interview with Dr. Michelle Segar, Behavior Change Scientist and Author, The Joy Choice.
And The Joy Choice is the perfect imperfect option that lets us do something instead of nothing. So we've got to get past the all or nothing dragon that's been getting in people's way. And I do want to say that the idea that people should become flexible is also a new message that, well, it's one I've been also talking about for decades. But the research is also starting to mount to show that flexible response and flexible thinking is much more adaptive for healthy eating, for regular exercise, including for weight loss maintenance.Dr. Michelle SegarSustainable behavior change
Immediate benefits of being physically active
A flexible approach to exercise
Habit formation
Movement as a gift
Making consistent choices
Expanding choice
Health coaching as research
Health & fitness sector at a crossroads
Reaching the 80%
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An interview with Dr. Glenda Rivoallan, Founder of WeTalkWellbeing and Soulgenic.
But the most important thing about how I define resilience is the ability to not just bounce back from challenges, or adversities, or more negative things that happen to us in our life, but actually bounce forward and with the ability to thrive.Dr. Glenda RivoallanDefining resilience
Teaching resilience
Integrating mental and physical healthRole of the health & fitness sector
Resilience in a corporate setting
COVID-19 pandemic and resilience
Effective resilience strategies
Reframing self-care
Normalizing mental health
Linking mental health and physical activity
Meeting consumers where they are
A lifelong commitment to developing resilience
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An interview with Jill Vialet, Founder of Playworks.
And ultimately, what you're trying to do is set these kids up to succeed, not to eliminate risk, but to help them learn how to manage and mitigate and navigate risk in a way that helps them to be able to just thrive.Jill VialetPlayworks inspiration
Setting children up to succeed
Managing and navigating risk
The value of play
Addressing sustainability
Developing programming
COVID-19 pandemic impact
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An interview with Lawrence Kosick, Co-Founder and President of GetSetUp.
We just truly believe that a person's last 20 or 30 years of their life—which is a really significant amount of time—it can be their best years. But in order to do that, there needs to be a place and a community that empowers them. And however we get there, that'll continue to be our goal.Lawrence KosickGetSetUp inspiration
Addressing ageism
Helping older adults live happy, healthy, connected lives
Older adults as instructors
Creating community
Last mile vision
Addressing mental and physical health and well-being
Measuring success
Leveraging partners to raise awareness
COVID-19 pandemic impact
Addressing the social determinants of health
Building trusted partnerships
Increasing accessibility
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An interview with Lisa Robinson, Director of the Office of Food Access & Healthy Communities for the City of Somerville (formerly Shape Up Somerville).
Now, we recognize that there's so many root issues that can lead to obesity. And it's a complex issue. And we recognized that back then, as well. But how do we come together to really focus in on what's the main goal for attacking that—the systems that affect our health outcomes.Lisa Robinson
Impacting energy balance in children
Creating a healthier community
Systems approach
Data-driven approach
Measuring success
Investing in green spaces
Making spaces accessible
Public transportation access
Impact on caregivers’ behavior and weight outcomes
Rebranding Shape Up Somerville
Supporting healthy eating and active living during the COVID-19 pandemic
Focusing on spaces, wages, and transportation
Advocacy
Collective impact approach
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An interview with Dr. Simon Rosenbaum, Associate Professor in the School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney.
It's actually saying, acknowledging the challenges, acknowledging how hard it is, acknowledging that this isn't going to be a cure, but it can be part of people's recovery. There are ongoing challenges. And our job as that workforce is saying how do we help those people at that point in time with what they need in order to engage in some form of activity.Dr. Simon Rosenbaum
Connecting mental health and exercise
Training fitness professionals in mental health
Exercise as a right
Training mental health professionals in exercise
The importance of integrating exercise into a mental health team
Addressing the trust gap
The role for students
Advice for exercise physiologists
Exercise as part of treatment and recovery
Exercising for mental health benefits
Scope of practice
Diversifying voices in the health and fitness industry
Opportunity for the health and fitness industry
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An interview with Amanda Rees, Co-Founder and CEO at Bold.
And so that more and more individuals truly believe for themselves deep down that they have the power to influence how they age. They don't feel like aging is happening to them, but that it’s never too late and that there's something that they can do and they feel armed and informed about that.Amanda Rees
Bold inspiration for focusing on healthy aging and fall preventionBold mission
Investing in health
Market opportunity
Bold instructor credentials
Science-based
Measuring success
Integrating mental health
Caregiving and exercise motivation
Resilience
Partnering with healthcare
Value proposition for insurance companies
Changing how we age
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@MovetoLiveMore
An interview with Michael Stack, CEO/Founder of Applied Fitness Solutions and Host of the Wellness Paradox Podcast.
[H]ealth and wellness and fitness professionals have all of the capabilities necessary to help improve public health dramatically in this country. Yet there's a trust, communication and interaction gap between those professionals and our other allied health and medical professionals.Michael StackThe Wellness Paradox
Inclusive language
Operationalizing conversations about inclusion
Representation in inclusive environments
Mission to integrate healthcare and health & fitness
Coach-based approach to programming and services
Partnering with allied health professionals
Partnering with physical therapy
Being seen as essential
Progress on shifting the mindset
Building trust
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An interview with Graham Melstrand, Executive Vice President, Mission and Stakeholder Engagement, at the American Council on Exercise®.
So many communities provided some flexibility in exchange for those closures that were imposed on them, by allowing those facilities, those exercise professionals, to take their programs and services to a risk mitigated environment in parks or other community spaces, so that they could continue to provide services that consumers still want and felt that they needed.Graham MelstrandMission alignment
COVID pandemic and the Moving Together Outside campaign
The value for exercise professionals
Pathway to sustainability
Resources for policymakers and exercise professionals
High visibility for exercise professionals
Success stories
Meeting people’s needs
Call to action
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An interview with Bryce Hastings, Head of Research at Les Mills International.
But now when I look at people exercising in a lot of facilities, I see people who are exercising because they have to be there, not because they want to be there, but because they’ve been told by the health professional, or they've recognized something in their life that they want to improve. And the key to retention for me is just shifting them from exercising because they have to, to exercising because they want to.Bryce HastingsResearching exercise program efficacy and exercise behavior
Partnering with researchers to use best practice
Delivering the best instructor and coaching techniques
Exercise habit formation research
Framing exercise as enjoyable
Focusing on the experience and enjoyment factor
Group connection as motivation
Translating research into action
Instructor and member retention
Identifying as an exerciser
Building the evidence base
Measuring and testing claims
Researchers who are bridging the gap
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An interview with Dr. Sarah Linke, Associate Clinical Professor at UC San Diego.
A lot of times we get stuck in healthcare talking to [patients] about how they can prevent cardiovascular disease in 30 years. Well, that's not relevant to them today. There's always tomorrow to exercise to prevent that from happening in 30 years. But how do we focus, how do we train them to focus on those immediate rewards that they can get? Which would be more energy, improved mood, decreased anxiety, decreased stress, all of these things that happen immediately, that would keep people exercising, and then in the long run would also prevent disease.Dr. Sarah Linke
Exercise as a prevention tool
Training physicians in motivational interviewing
Training physicians in framing exercise as relevant
Warm handoff to health coaches
Addressing the trust gap with community-based health & fitness professionals
Implementation science
Providing the best patient care
Technology as a facilitator for physician exercise referrals
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An interview with Pat Rumbaugh, Executive Director at Let's Play America
Let them play on their own as early as possible. Let them be outside as much as possible. And most importantly, parents, educators, model playful behavior.Pat Rumbaugh
Play as essential for people of all ages
Addressing the perception of play as frivolous
Active play in the classroomPlay as a learned and natural skill
Raising awareness of the benefits of play
Play advocacy
Playful communities
Planning a play day
The Play Lady
Play advocacy tips
Access to play opportunities
Play mentors
Play in the workplace
Reengineering play back into our lives
COVID-19 pandemic and play
Let’s Play Outside
Tips
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An interview with Wayne Moss, Executive Director at the National Council of Youth Sports.
But all of these benefits really transfer over the course of a lifetime. And that’s why I think that it is really important for all young people to be involved in sport and really to find whatever it is, is their particular interest, the thing that they like to do, and the thing that they can continue to do over the course of a lifetime. And they should be engaged in a lot of things, experiment with lots of different sports, just to see what's of, what's of interest to them.Wayne Moss
Youth sports as essential
Benefits of youth sports for kids
Impact of COVID on the youth sports sector
Youth sports and mental health
Benefits of youth sports over a lifetime
Youth sports and academic performance
Access to youth sports for girls
Diversity in leadership
Access to youth sports for underserved communities
Benefits of youth sports for country
National Youth Sports Day
Calls to action
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An interview with Gretchen Reynolds, Phys Ed Columnist for the New York Times.
But figuring out how this topic, how this—the whole arena of physical activity— how important it is for our lives, that is, there are stories in all of that and that is what sticks to people. That's how they can remember this information and figure out how to apply it to their lives. So, so yes, I think of myself as a storyteller whose subject matter happens to be physical activity and exercise science.Gretchen Reynolds
Writing about exercise, exercise science, and physical activity
Choosing studies to write about
Honing the talent to write about exercise science
Storytelling about physical activity and exercise science
Physical activity and enjoyment
Physical activity and longer, healthier lives
Physical activity and accessibility
Individual response to exercise
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An interview with Dr. Robert Zarr, Founder & Medical Director of Park Rx America.
When I'm asked this question, do patients roll their eyes when I talk about a nature...I've never seen anybody roll their eyes. They're actually so thrilled that I am legitimizing their wishes and their desires to be outside, to spend time outside, to move outside, because most doctors don't do it in that way.Dr. Robert Zarr
Founding DC Park Rx, now Park Rx America
Encouraging physicians to prescribe nature
Addressing time as a barrier to physicians prescribing nature
Tools and training to support physicians in prescribing nature
Raising public awareness of nature prescriptions
Patient follow-through on nature prescriptions
Language around prescriptions
Stages of change
Health benefits of being active outdoors
Access to nature
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An interview with Dr. Rachele Pojednic, Assistant Professor and Program Director of Exercise Science at Norwich University.
[T]he industry sort of sees them as a target population to change, rather than thinking of them as a target population that can be a part of our community. And so, I think, as we are entering into a space of inclusivity and acceptance, I think this really presents a timely opportunity to expand our community beyond what we've traditionally been seen as.Dr. Rachele Pojednic
Providing programming and services to people with obesity
Language and framing
Creating community
Creating welcoming, inclusive environments
Reaching the 80%
Representation and role models
Messaging inclusion
Stages of change
Industry change
Health benefits of physical activity
Joy and physical activity
Health and fitness as separate from weight loss
Meeting the needs of people with obesity
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An interview with Kelly O'Brien, Executive Director of the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Brain Health Partnership.
And so physical activity, I think, is one of the most important. It's also one of the most scientifically backed and researched interventions. Dozens and dozens and dozens of studies have confirmed over and over and over again, that consistent and increased physical activity can actually reduce your risk of dementia and improve your cognitive performance.Kelly O'Brien
Preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease
Empowering people to reduce risk
Linking movement and brain health
Physical activity referrals/prescriptions
Linking clinic and community
Advocacy
Cross-sector collaboration
Across the lifespan
Brain health screening and digital health
Talking to physicians about risk reduction
Calls to action
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An interview with Dr. William Bird, CEO and Founder of Intelligent Health and General Practitioner.
And we just don't think sometimes. We make physical activity like a tablet, because that's what we're used to as doctors. But physical activity shouldn't be anything extra. It should be part of your well-being, it should be part of your life. It should give you the vibrancy and the additional fun in life. And if you can’t do that then you are going to fail.Dr. William Bird
A mission to create active and vibrant communities
Success and accessibility to different population subgroups
Fun and physical activity
Mobilizing communities
Physical activity as a means to an end
Cross-sector collaboration
Impact of the pandemic on access to outdoor physical activity opportunities
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An interview with Katera Noviello Kapoor, Senior Director of Health Promotion, Wellness & Athletics at 92Y.
We're just more passionate than ever about just expanding our reach to people who were not exercising prior to COVID. Because a lot of the people that were exercising, they're back with us, they're ready to go, they were hungry to be back with us. But it's those that were missing that were potentially severely impacted by COVID more than anybody else if they were out of shape. Those are the people that we're really trying to reach out to now and say ‘come be with us, it's never too late to start’.Katera Noviello Kapoor
Creating community within the four walls of 92Y
Creating welcoming and inclusive programming and services
Training staff to support welcoming and inclusive environments
Bringing health & fitness out into the community
Building successful partnerships with community stakeholders
Providing programming and services that meet the needs of all ages and abilities
Best practices in building successful partnerships with community stakeholders
Partnering with healthcare
Success in bringing health promotion out into the community
Expanding reach to non-exercisersEstablishing expertise
Building trust and long-term relationships with community stakeholders
Favorite programming
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An interview with Caraline Coats, VP of Provider Venture Investing at Humana and Interim Leader of the Humana Foundation.
There's not one answer, not even by community or population, I think. So it's a constant marriage of understanding our individual member needs, barriers in the community, building trust within the organizations in that community, and then connecting all of those dots to try to find the best solution. Whether it's physical activity, or food or transportation, or loneliness, or crime or safety, right?Caraline Coats
The role of trust in connecting healthcare and communities
Evolution of population health work
Framing whole person health
Collecting data on health-related social needs
Connection between physical activity and health outcomes
Expanding access to physical activity opportunities
Best practices in addressing health-related social needs
Pandemic accelerating focus on whole person health
Best practices for building trust
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An interview with Dr. Meghan Venable-Thomas, Cardio Dance Instructor and Community Engagement Manager at TRILLFIT®.
And like just making more people feel and know that that health and wellness is for every body, every type of body, every age of body, every mobility of body. And it's, I think, a real opportunity at the intersection of equity and health, to really be lifting up that more and more.
Dr. Meghan Venable-Thomas
Start in the health & fitness industry
Creating a culture of belonging and accessibility
Finding a community
Stepping in to lead in a community
Creating access and collaboration
TRILLFIT® pledge
Diversity, equity, inclusion training
Connecting to and serving community
Industry sign on
Member sign on
Accessible language
Opening doors
Diverse representation among instructors
Diverse class offerings
Health & fitness as essential during COVID
Health & fitness for every body
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An interview with Dr. Brendon Stubbs, Senior Clinical Lecturer, King's College London
Now the links between mental health in the context of the crisis were not always implicitly made. But more and more people are talking about the impact of not being able to connect with our friends being indoors. But physical activity proves a real, profound opportunity to help us move, feel better, connect outdoors safely with other people, and feel a sense of joy and movement. And I think it's a real win-win situation for our physical and our mental health and just our overall connection with each other and also the outside world and the planet.
Dr. Brendon Stubbs
Inspiration for interest in physical activity and mental health
Connecting a healthy mind and a healthy body
Integrating mental and physical health in practice
Destigmatizing mental health conditions
Addressing the physical inactivity and mental health crises
Physical activity as a coping strategy
Building the evidence base linking mental health and physical activity
Translating research for a lay audience
Call to action
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An interview with Elaine Wyllie, Founder of the Daily Mile.
The Daily Mile is a solution. It's not a message. It's a practical solution in the school day. It's on a plate. parceled up. There you are. And if you do the Daily Mile, you will change the health and well-being of your children. Now, and for the future.
Elaine Wyllie
Starting the Daily Mile
Engaging children in the process
Discovering your inner fit child
Demonstrating the benefits of the Daily Mile
Making a difference with child obesity and overweight
Scaling
Health partnering with schools
Building resilience
The Daily Mile and COVID
Fit for Life
Engaging with the Daily Mile
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An interview with Joel Dembe, Advocate for Disability and Inclusion and Paralympian.
We need to better integrate people with disabilities into all aspects of society. And I would start with health being the first thing, recreation opportunities, making fitness equitable. It's simple, I just want all people with disabilities to have the same opportunity to stay fit that able bodied people do.
Joel Dembe
Journey to being an advocate for disability and inclusion
Identifying as an athlete
Inclusive physical education
De-stigmatizing differences
Making our own communities more accessible for people with disabilities
Reimagining physical education
Connecting community partners
Advice to Paralympians
Lifelong journey in sport
Health equity for people with disabilities
Expanding physical activity opportunities for people with disabilities
Becoming involved in advocacy
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An interview with T. Morgan Dixon, Co-Founder & CEO of GirlTrek.
And every single one of those members has committed to opening her front door, stepping out on faith, in hope in a time that feels hopeless in the direction of our healthiest, most fulfilled life. What that looks like practically is that we pledge to walk 30 minutes a day, five days a week to establish a lifesaving habit of walking.T. Morgan Dixon
GirlTrek pledge
Walking as an accessible, affordable intervention
30 minutes of self-care
Self-care as survival
A health revolution
Revolution success
Change agents
Heroes and everyday women
Superhero blue and visibility
A tapestry of activism
Hope
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An interview with Dr. Daniel Fulham O'Neill, Orthopedic Surgeon, Sports Medicine Doctor, Sport Psychologist, and Author, Survival of the Fit.
So then we get the first graders. And now we have kindergarten and first grade doing PE. Every kid, every day. And now it’s second grade. And now we just keep building up through your school system. And by the time these kids graduate from high school, this is what they do. They have their physical identity, they know for at least 180 days a year, they are going to be expected to get their heart rates up.Dr. Daniel Fulham O'Neill
Inspiration for a book about physical education
Doctors advocating for a physical education revolution
Doctors as messengers addressing obesity and physical inactivity
Allies in a physical education revolution
Physical identity
Redesigning physical education in all public schools
Reclaiming physical identity
Link between physical fitness and academic performance
Window of opportunity
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An interview with Janet Omstead, Play Expert, Health Coach and Author, The Play Book: How to Get in the Habit of Good Health.
If you reframe exercise as play, it's just way less of a barrier for people to move without feeling they need to go to a gym or do a hard workout. And like I said, getting to play versus having to play. But play is a relatively low bar you can build on and starting small and building up is what makes things sustainable 100%. And it makes it less scary. Play just feels achievable. And, in my opinion, play is a state of mind and a completely new approach to exercise.Janet Omstead
Learning from children about play and movement
COVID taking the playground away
Bringing back the playground
Sustainable exercise behavior change
Investing in health
Health coaching
Getting to move
The five whys
Play and mental health
Helping people who want help
Play as a new approach to exercise
Setting the bare ass minimum
New ideas for play
Motivation for change
The world as a playground
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An interview with Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Harvard University and Author, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding.
And I think what we need to do as a field is to get away from the usual prescriptive, medicalized, commodified way of getting people to exercise. And try some much more anthropologically normal, social ways to get people to be physically active.Dr. Daniel Lieberman
Journey from a reluctant exerciser to author and researcher
Motivation for the book
Debunking myths about exercise
Physical activity and living healthier for longer
Book cover
Making exercise necessary and rewarding
Exercise and education
Exercise and academic performance
Moving outdoors
Trainers making exercise fun
Requiring employees to exercise
Physical activity as a right
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An interview with Lisa Dougherty, Founder of the MedFit Network and Founder and President of the MedFit Education Foundation
And so I think this is a perfect storm for the fitness industry to uplevel their education and be part of the healthcare continuum. I don't think it's going to be about glutes and abs anymore. I think it's going to be about prevention, wellness and rehabilitation. Living as long as you can in a state of wellness. You know, recovering from an injury, I think that's what's really important. And that's where we could serve our highest good in the fitness industry.Lisa Dougherty
Building a medical fitness network
Integrating health & fitness with healthcare
Fitness professionals becoming trusted partners in the healthcare continuum
Fitness professional education and continuing education
Fitness industry standards
Medical fitness movement
Post-pandemic fitness industry
Medical fitness success stories
Play span
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An interview with Mike McGinn, Executive Director of America Walks and former Seattle Mayor
“It's really about building, as I said, these inclusive, accessible, equitable places. That draws people from different places to it, right? People might come in from a public health perspective, people might come in from a climate perspective, people might come in from a land use and economic vitality perspective, an affordable housing perspective. So we have a little bit more of a challenge, trying to figure out how to really support everybody and knit together a movement.”Mike McGinn
History with walking advocacy
Role elected officials can play in creating safe, walkable communities
America Walks mission
Changing culture from car-centric to walkable
Creating public demand
Walkability movement future
Community organizing
Finding allies
Moving the walkability movement
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An interview with Shellie Pfohl, Esports Integrity Commission, former CEO U.S. Center for SafeSport, former ED President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
It's about developing young people, it's about developing those leadership skills and those conflict resolution and how kids can and will and are truly becoming the leaders in our communities. They have a voice, they will continue to have a voice. And if we can create those opportunities for young people to come together, give them a few resources, and use some evidence-based programming along the way, in order to do that. That's how we change culture, right? So I truly see myself at my core, it's about youth development, and creating those opportunities for young people to thrive.
Shellie Pfohl
COVID-related school closures and childhood obesity
Learning conflict resolution and leadership skills through sports and recess
Playworks and PeacePlayers teaching conflict resolution and leadership skills
Long-term solutions to enhance health and well-being
Building successful partnerships to address physical inactivity
FitnessGram and win-win public-private partnerships
Link between movement and joy and learning
U.S. Center for SafeSport
Post-COVID youth sport activities
Youth development through sport
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An interview with Dr. Bob Sallis, Kaiser Permanente and ACSM Exercise is Medicine®
I think that the fitness industry has got to fundamentally change how they try to service the public in the United States. What their mission is and what their role is has got to change if they're going to be relevant.Dr. Bob Sallis
Exercise is Medicine® evolution
Exercise is Medicine® mission
Engaging the health & fitness industry around reimbursement
COVID and physical activity
Physical activity vital sign
Referring patients to strength training programs
Finding trusted fitness professionals
Fitness professional standards
Patient exercise behavior change
Reaching the 80%
Call to action
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An interview with Karen Moseley, President, and Dr. Mary Imboden, Director of Research at HERO
I'll highlight a few key areas that COVID really has shined a light on—mental health, social determinants of health, and employee policies around parental leave and caregiving. So the COVID pandemic offers a singular teachable moment for employers who are still intent on protecting the health and well-being of their workforce and of their communities.Karen Moseley
Cross-sector collaboration and innovation in worksite health and well-being
HERO mission and vision
The role of employers in addressing social determinants of health
The impact of culture on workplace health and well-being
Critique of workplace wellness program research
The impact of workplace wellness programs on health outcomes and costs
Reimagining the impact of employers on health and well-being post-COVID
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An interview with Christopher J. Wirth, Founder and President of No Quit Living
Some of the best of the best, they have that positive mental advantage, they have that positive mindset, they prepare themselves, they quote, unquote, control the controllables as much as they can. So if and when they're challenged, they're pushed to that level, they bend, but they don't break.Christopher J. Wirth
Comeback stories
Positive mental advantage
Building the positivity muscle
Facing adversity
Creativity and positivity
Coaching different people differently
Communication and responding versus reacting
Getting the right people on your bus
Prioritizing physical activity
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An interview with Dr. Michelle Segar, Director of the SHARP Center at the University of Michigan, behavior change scientist, and author
And I'm asking people if being active or exercising feels like a chore from one (a chore) to a five (a gift). And through that answer, we find out whether people's reason or why for exercising is based on motives or reasons for exercising that research has found actually make it into a chore or are based on logical or should-based reasons, which we know from research and years of promoting exercise for these reasons are actually, they may get people to start exercising, but they don't get people to to continue.Dr. Michelle Segar
Language and motivation for exercising
Helping people find their motivation
Moving from a chore to a gift
Health is not a motivator for exercise
Focusing on the short-term reasons for exercising
COVID-19 and exercise
Making lasting behavior change
The health & fitness industry communicating to reach the 80%
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An interview with Tom Richards, Founder and Managing Editor of the Activist in Motion and Principal of the Activist in Motion Advisory Services
But I don't think that, broadly, what's happening inside the club—the professionalism and the credibility—is being communicated or translated outside the club. And that's put us in this position where we are now being "non essential," lumped together with bars and restaurants and casinos, when we should be lumped together with healthcare providers, allied health professionals, and people who are doing the best work in the community.
Tom Richards
Communicating a club’s value proposition to the community
COVID-19 and “essential” businesses
Moving away from “non essential” toward “essential”
Understanding the needs of the community
The Activist in Motion vision
Transforming the health & fitness industry
5 steps to becoming an essential community resource
Connecting health clubs to healthcare
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An interview with Dr. Darian Parker, Co-Owner of Epic Leisure Management and Host of Dr. D's Social Network
I think the industry was broken before COVID. I think it was extremely broken. And I mean, you've got to think about an industry where 15 to 18% of the population exercises regularly and that hasn't changed in 30 years. What are we doing that that hasn't changed? So to say that the fitness industry was amazing before that, is a huge lie. The industry has been broken.Dr. Darian Parker
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Connection to the health & fitness industry
Exercise and habit formation
Accountability in exercise
Improving fitness performance
Goal setting
Getting to the why
The benefits of online personal training
Fitness and technology
Fixing a broken health & fitness industry
Connecting with others
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An interview with Erin Nicole, CEO and Founder of Move Happy®
Businesses are starting to realize that they should care about their employees, but we've got a lot of work to do. A lot of growth in that area, a lot of professionals needing to take responsibility for their teams. If your employee works a third of their life for your organization or work, then a lot of their time is spent there. So you should care about their mental health, their mental well being....Erin Nicole
Helping patients improve their fitness and happiness
Quantifying program success
Naming Move Happy®
Adapting programs for different settings and populations
Mental health in the workplace
Chief Happiness Officers
Creating brand ambassadors
Moving toward happiness
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An interview with Dr. Elizabeth Markle and Dr. Ben Emmert-Aronson, Co-Founders of Open Source Wellness
There's nothing rocket science about physical movement, eating some vegetables, practicing some mindfulness. Really, in our experience, the active ingredient, the thing that helps people get traction and transformation in their health, their well being, in their lives, is about community.Dr. Elizabeth Markle and Dr. Ben Emmert-Aronson
Community Is Medicine
Creating a trusted referral pathway
Integrating programs with group medical visits
Delivering programs in clinical- and community-based settings
Transitioning from a clinical- to a community-based setting
The role of health coaches in behavior change
Integrating healthcare and communities
Sustainable, scalable models
Evaluating program outcomes
Role of social support and structures
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An interview with Rick Brush, CEO of Wellville
If we want the kind of outcomes that we say we want, the only way to achieve those is to collaborate and to do it with a longer-term focus. The short-term fix for an illness might be writing a prescription, the long-term strategy for greater wellbeing improvement is about reshaping communities. A lot of what we're doing with our collaboratives is really pointing further upstream and pointing further into the future. And having those communities come together around what they care about and what they want to achieve over the long haul.Rick Brush
Measuring short- and long-term success
The role of community engagement and collaboration
Collective impact
Community-led initiatives
Having the right people at the table for collaboration
Healthcare addressing social determinants of health to improve health outcomes
Healthy weight initiatives
Addressing health inequities
Shifting from short- to long-term thinking about investing in community health
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An interview with Mike Alpert, former President and CEO of the Claremont Club and current COO of Smart Health Clubs
I think those that focus on doing the right things and having the right blend of social activities and physical activities in their club are going to reap rewards like they never thought they would when this is over. You have to have it in your blood that your club is more than a place to just come and sweat.Mike Alpert
Creating community within and beyond the four walls of the club
Sharing programs and best practices among clubs
Becoming totally vested in a community
Building relationships with physicians
The impact of programs on staff and member retention
Socialization and social support
The role of health clubs in a post-COVID world
The purpose of a health club
Integrating healthcare and health & fitness
Health clubs as essential
First steps to connecting medical and fitness communities
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An interview with Jay Ell Alexander, CEO and Owner of Black Girls RUN!
We are building a community, a community that is quite supportive….[w]e make sure that if you come out to a weekly run for the first time or for the fifth time, you feel like you are a part of a group of women that are supporting you, encouraging you, and holding you accountable for your health and fitness journey.Jay Ell Alexander
Carrying on the Black Girls RUN! legacy
Amplifying voices in the community with a 501(c)(3)
Building a supportive community
Addressing health disparitiesPhysicians as role models and advocates for physical activity
Addressing barriers to physical activity
Creating an inclusive fitness movement
The role of social support
Bringing new members into the community
The impact of COVID-19
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An interview with Katie Heggtveit, Founder of Bootcamps for Change (#SweatierForTheBetter)
So we provide critical education and employment training and opportunities, as well as accessible fitness programming helps them to develop these life skills. And this launches them on a positive path towards independence and self sufficiency as contributing members of society.Katie Heggtveit
Encouraging systems-wide solutions for chronic disease and physical inactivity
Empowering homeless youth to become physically active
Prioritizing funding for physical activity
Meeting basic needs
The beginning of the Bootcamps for Change journey
Advice for young social entrepreneurs
Physical activity as part of the social determinants of health conversation
Tapping into the fitness community to make physical activity accessible
The importance of mentoring
Fitness as a stepping stone
Stopping youth from falling through the cracks
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An interview with Jacki Quinlan, Director of Community Outreach at Sports Backers
Our warriors are out there recruiting folks to get moving and leading these free fitness classes. They are literally on the frontlines. We have classes in Gilpin Court, where no one else is out leading classes. There's no gyms. There's no, you know, healthy place to go get food. That's where our warriors are. We go where really no one else has gone to bring physical activity right to the communities that need them the most.Jacki Quinlan
Report from the frontlines of the physical inactivity epidemic
Reaching people where they are
Drawing fitness warriors from the community
The role of social support
Fitness warriors making a difference in the community
Implementing the Fitness Warrior train-the-trainer model in other communities
Diversifying fitness
Bringing about sustainable behavior change
The fitness journey
Scaling up affordable programs
Evaluating the impact of the Fitness Warriors program
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An interview with Dr. David Sabgir, a cardiologist and the CEO and Founder of Walk with a Doc
I started my residency and did my fellowship from 97-03 and during that time, realized how critical physical activity was. And we hear it described as the miracle drug. And I feel like every day that's hammered home more and more. So that had to be really at the forefront of our discussions.
Dr. David Sabgir
Inspiration for Walk with a Doc
Naming Walk with a Doc
Support for Walk with a Doc
Reach of Walk with a Doc
Physicians as trusted providers
Physicians walking the walk and investing the time
Evaluating Walk with a Doc
Focusing on social connectedness
Adapting Walk with a Doc during COVID-19
Decreased physical activity during COVID-19
Growth of Walk with a Doc
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An interview with Jackie Ostfeld, Director of the Sierra Club’s Outdoors for All Campaign and Founder of the Outdoors Alliance for Kids
I've seen nature change us. I've seen nature heal us. And I just I believe every child deserves to benefit from the outdoors, whether that's physically, emotionally, socially or academically.Jackie Ostfeld
Engaging children in outdoor physical activity
Outdoors for All Campaign vision
Addressing transportation barriers
Addressing access and inclusivity issues
Founding Outdoors Alliance for Kids
Evidence linking outdoor physical activity and mental and physical health
Nature prescriptions and integration with healthcare
Making outdoor physical activity more affordable
Healing through nature
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An interview with Lynne Brick, Co-owner, President, and Founder of Brick Bodies, Co-owner of Planet Fitness Growth Partners, and Co-Founder of the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation
One of the things about trying to be a better leader every day is trying to pull out the greatness in other people, and that is what we really tried to do, is to pull out the greatness in other people.Lynne Brick
Bringing the healthcare and health & fitness sectors closer together
Changing the perception of the health & fitness industry
Changing the self-perception of the health & fitness industry
Building confidence of healthcare in the health & fitness industry
Reaching the other 80%
Leading during a disruptive time
Female leaders in the health & fitness industry
Family leadership lessons
Building evidence-based research connecting physical activity and mental health
The future of the health & fitness industry
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An interview with Dr. Howard Koh, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, former HHS Assistant Secretary for Health, former MA Commissioner of Public Health
In my view, there should be so much more emphasis on [physical activity]. And we simply don't. I don't quite understand it, because it's a life saving tool. It helps everybody's emotional well-being as well as their physical well-being. And, you know, we just have not had the attention that people like you are now bringing to it. So we need to double down on this if we're going to have a healthier future.Dr. Howard Koh
Incorporating physical activity into daily life
Prioritizing daily physical activity
Creating community through physical activity
Policy makers prioritizing physical activity
Building a culture of physical activity through cross-sector collaboration
Physical activity as a magic pill
Prioritizing disease prevention
COVID-19 and physical activity
Knocking down silos
Building collaborations with the educational sector
Investing in public health
Public health done well
The meaning of public service
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An interview with Ryan Eder, CEO/Founder of IncludeHealth
We see the future of health, wellness, fitness, performance, as really this blend, it's going to be a blend of on site, remote, physical and digital experiences and services. And what we need to navigate that is a platform that can bridge that together and be able to adjust.Ryan Eder
Vision for IncludeHealth
Evolution of IncludeHealth
Improving health through the lens of a designer
Health & fitness clubs opening their doors to people living with disability
Challenges and opportunities in integrating healthcare and health & fitnessUsing technology to facilitate physician exercise referral and feedback
Collaboration among professionals caring for the patient
Incorporating exercise into daily life in a community-based setting
Progression from equipment to cloud to movement sensors
Impacting population health
Impact of COVID-19 on vision
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An interview with Dr. Laurie Whitsel, Vice President of Policy Research and Translation for the American Heart Association
I think it is going to add sophistication to our physical activity policy and strategic agenda, because I think when everybody knows what everybody is working on, it lifts all boats, and I think that is our goal here.Dr. Laurie Whitsel
Translating science into policy/action
Challenges in translation
Making science and research relevant for policymakers
Investing in resources to get people physically active
Reconciling timeframe for value on investment
Creation of the Physical Activity Alliance
A unified voice for physical activity advocacy
Development of a physical activity advocacy strategy
Physical activity advocacy as a team effort
Promising developments around worksite wellness
Impact of COVID-19 on agenda and priorities
Chronic disease as a COVID-19 risk factor
Integrating physical activity and healthcare
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An interview with Colin Milner, Founder and CEO of the International Council on Active Aging
Be engaged in as many different areas of life as you can and your health will follow.
Colin Milner
Founding the International Council on Active Aging
Identifying and meeting needs of older adults
Improving quality of life for older adults
Active aging and mental and physical health
Isolation among older adults
Inclusive fitness for older adults
Changes in the health & fitness industry in serving older adults
Health & fitness centers creating community among older adults
Disposable income of older adults to spend on fitness services
Older adults assessing risk with COVID-19
Countering ageism during COVID-19
New developments in research on aging
Adopting physical activity habits for a lifetime
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An interview with Katie Adamson, Vice President of Health Partnerships and Policy at YMCA of the USA
There needs to be a cultural shift of our understanding of what health means to lead with prevention and wellness and begin to pay for it.
Katie Adamson
Connecting the dots for policy makers between the chronic underfunding of public health and prevention and the impact of COVID
Receptiveness to message linking COVID and chronic disease as a risk factor
Making the health and economic case for prevention
Diabetes Prevention Program as a case study
Laying the groundwork for other interventions
Community settings partnering with clinical settings to improve health outcomes
Community-based organizations as an innovative, integral healthcare partner
Non profit advocacy during COVID
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An interview with Dr. Greg Degnan, Medical Director of the Atlantic Coast Athletic Clubs
The best way to bypass the ‘time issue’ of a physician having to get familiar with your facility and your people is to have one of his or her peers say…’I trust my patients to them, you can trust yours to them.Dr. Greg Degnan
Making a physician exercise referral program successful
Communicating wins and successes to the patient and referring physician
Cost and return on investment of physician exercise referral programs
Building relationships between healthcare and health & fitness
Building trust between healthcare and health & fitness
Shared cooperation between healthcare and health & fitness
Barriers of time, training, tools, trust in physicians making exercise referrals
COVID and health & fitness centers as essential
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An interview with Teresa Earle, Co-Founder of the MEND Foundation and Healthy Weight Partnership
Children are part of the key to helping us understand that they want to live healthful lives.Teresa Earle
Vision for MEND and the Healthy Weight Partnership
Accessibility and affordability of programming
Importance of evidence-based programming
Delivery in clinical and community settings
Framing health promotion/disease prevention with cost effectiveness
Working with children versus the whole family unit
Empowering families to improve their health
Lessons learned from programming
A-ha moments
Social support in behavior change
Role of partnerships in developing, designing, executing programs
Creating policy around early interventions
Impact of COVID on vision and work
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An interview with Dr. Liz Joy, Senior Medical Director of Wellness and Nutrition at Intermountain Healthcare
Workflow is critical for the entire care team. You have to clearly define whose job is which. Clinical medicine is a team sport….There are lots of different strategies to give the patient the experience where we care about them as a whole person, and recognizing how their environment affects their lifestyle behaviors and how their environment and their lifestyle behaviors together influence their health.
Dr. Liz Joy
Incorporating physical activity assessment/referral into the clinical workflow
Physical activity vital sign as a prompt
Making the time to talk about physical activity
Transitioning counseling about physical activity in the clinical setting to the community setting
Including physical activity as part of social determinants of health and social needs screening
Prioritizing physical activity in screening
Other members of the care team who can facilitate adoption of healthy behaviors outside the clinical setting
Interrelationship between COVID-19 and physical inactivity
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An interview with Dr. Cedric Bryant, President and Chief Science Officer at American Council on Exercise
I think we need to have a shift in our thinking and really view healthcare as the ultimate team sport...where exercise professionals can have an impact, I think, is really helping address that physical inactivity-related component of overall public/population health.Dr. Cedric Bryant
The mission to get people moving
Physical activity as a “best buy”
Framing physical activity versus exercise
Engineering physical activity back into our lifestyles
Removing barriers to active lifestyles
The role of exercise professionals in getting people moving
Exercise professionals and empathy in bringing about behavior change
The dual pandemics of COVID and physical inactivity/sedentary behavior
Optimistic outlook for getting people moving
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An interview with Chuck Runyon, CEO and Co-Founder at Self Esteem Brands
For us to get through these very trying times, we’ve got to have the emotional strength and mindset to do that, and that starts with physical activityChuck Runyon
Physical activity as essential
Fitness as one piece of mental and physical health
Removing barriers to active lifestyles
Teaching kids to be physically active so they grow up to be active adults
The dual pandemics of COVID and physical inactivity/sedentary behavior
Exercise as better than medicine
The fitness industry as a partner with healthcare
Physical activity as essential now more than ever
Physical activity in a post-COVID worldClosing the health loop
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