Move to Live®More

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 p...

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...

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...

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 i...

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 wa...

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 i...

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,...

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...

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...

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 McSween...

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 th...

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...

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 sed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 f...

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,...

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 & fitn...

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 hel...

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...

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,...

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 a...

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...