Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the believe move grow podcast.  I just wanted to say a massive thank you for listening to the podcast and I hope my conversations are providing useful information for you to use in your own lives or within your professional careers. It’s is really great to hear your feedback on how the podcast is resonating with you and  I had some great feedback from Rosiejh27 via Apple podcast who said “Really enjoying this series of podcasts where Dan discusses exercise, health and mindset and the educational benefits of exercise in children and young people.  In depth knowledge and research backs the conversations, with additional evidence base from guests who are international leaders in their field.  The conclusions drawn, blend with my own perspective on the importance of exercise and activity and its link to well-being for children and young people in my role as a children’s physiotherapist” – Rosie thank you so much for your feedback and it’s great to hear the podcast is having an impact and it’s my true hope that together we can drive positive changes in children and young people’s physical and mental health. Now, my guest this week is none other than Michelle Segar.  Michelle is bestselling author of No Sweat which looks at how the science of motivation can bring a lifetime of fitness.  Michelle is a  sustainable behaviour change scientist and directs the University of Michigan’s Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Centre. She has spent the last 25 years conducting health coaching and research and translating it into sustainable behaviour change messages and programming for professionals and organizations seeking to accelerate and sustain positive change.

Coming up in todays conversation we talk about the power of knowing your ‘why’ when exercising, how emotions trump logic when thinking about exercise motivations, the importance of prioritising self care and much more! I Really think this podcast will resonate with anyone looking to create behaviour change in adults and children.  I think its vital that if we are to change children’s activity habits we need to bring the parents along with the children and encourage parents to model healthy physical activity behaviours to their children. So I’d recommend a pen and paper to hand as there are lots of useful tips from this conversation.  So without further ado please enjoy my conversation with Michelle Segar.

Resources:

Michelle on Twitter: @MichelleSegar

Michelle's website: Michelle Segar | Sustainable Behavior Change

Michelle's book: No Sweat by Michelle Segar | Michelle Segar

Book recommendation: Spark! by John Ratey

Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children: “everything counts” & “ whenever there is an opportunity to move , claim it”

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Hi guys welcome back to this week’s episode of the believe move grow podcast. I’m really glad you have decided to join me again today for all topics relating to the improvement of children’s physical and mental health.  Just a quick reminder that it would be great if you could rate and review the podcast and let me know the  impact it is having on your life or professional practice!  If the podcast resonates with you and you gain value, it would be really helpful if you could share the podcast with friends or colleagues to spread this important message as far as possible. I believe that together as a global community we can raise the awareness of children’s well-being and future health. I think this week’s guest and topic will really get people thinking, about how we can get children to be more conscious of their thoughts and actions.  In this episode I talk to Jonas Salzgeber.  Jonas is author of ‘The little book of stoicism: Timeless wisdom to gain resilience, confidence and calmness, and along with his brother Nils writes about stoic thought practices on their blog NJLife Hacks to encourage people to become better versions of themselves through ancient wisdom and modern science.

Coming up in this episode we delve into translating stoic philosophy into meaningful lessons for children to improve on their thoughts and emotions, how to be more altruistic than self-absorbed, the importance of resilience, grit and human sociability and thoughts on how children can organise their mindset to manage peer pressure. So without further ado please enjoy my conversation with Jonas Salzgeber.

Resources:

Jonas on Twitter: @NJlifehacks

Jonas' Blog:  Blog - NJlifehacks

Book recommendations: 1. 'More than Happiness' by Antonia Macaro. 2. 'How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald Robertson.

Message in bottle to improve physical activity levels and mental health in children: "The Story of the Chinese Farmer"

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Welcome back to part two of my chat with Linda Pagani, on the believe move grow podcast!  If you haven’t yet listened to part one then it’s definitely worth listening to first and we covered some great content on how parents can be pre-occupied with cognitive skills in children, how enjoying the journey and not the end result is important when participating in sport, the different approaches to teaching physical education and the impact of exercise on ADHD.  Coming up in this episode we discussed the importance of collaborative working between physical education teachers and other subject teachers to promote health in schools, how motor skills strongly predict math skills during the preschool years, the impact of early childhood TV viewing on diet, physical activity and class engagement in school into the teen years and some examples of child directed educational programmes.  So, without further ado please enjoy part two of my chat with Linda Pagani.

Resources:

Facebook: Linda S. Pagani

Perry Preschool Programme: Perry Preschool Project - HighScope

Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind".

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Welcome back to  another episode of the believe move grow podcast.  This episode is part one of a two-part series with Linda Pagani.   Linda is a full-time professor at the University of Montreal in the department of Psycho-Education. Linda has a BA in psychology from Concordia University and a MA and PhD in educational and counselling psychology from McGill University in Montreal. Over the past decade, her research expertise has expanded to address modifiable factors in early childhood that ultimately can affect human development. Her energy is targeted at improving social and health policies addressing youth. Her productive research agenda has increasingly focused on examining 3 areas: firstly, the unique long-term risks associated with screen-time in early childhood; secondly the unique and combined long-term risks associated with gestational and secondhand smoke; and finally the unique long-term benefits and risks associated with childhood extracurricular sports.

I had such fun talking to Linda and could have spoken for hours and that is why I made it into two parts! Coming up in this episode we discuss how parents can be pre-occupied with cognitive skills in children, how enjoying the journey and not the end result is important when participating in sport, the different approaches to teaching Physical education and the impact of exercise on ADHD.  So please enjoy this wide ranging conversation with the great Linda Pagani.

Resources

Facebook - Linda S. Pagani

Research: Childhood exercise as medicine: Extracurricular sport diminishes subsequent ADHD symptoms - PubMed (nih.gov)

Book recommendations: The Way of the Warrior Kid by Jocko Willink

Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children “Healthy body, Healthy mind”

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Welcome back to another episode of the believe move grow podcast.  I discovered todays guest from my brother!  Long story short, I was asking my brother, who is head of art at an academy school in London, who would be a great person to speak to regarding PE in the Uk?  Without a moment’s hesitation he recommended Shaun Dowling!   To provide some background on Shaun, he is a former Head of PE and Director of Specialism (sport) who progressed to vice principal roles in two secondary schools. Having taken a national role with the Youth Sport Trust Shaun was given the opportunity of delivering some teacher training in Iraq as part of an EU-funded contract with the British Council.

In 2013 Shaun appeared before the Education Select Committee to give evidence on ‘School Sport following London 2012’. In 2014 United Learning published ‘The A-Z of School Improvement through PE and Sport’ which Shaun produced and co-edited. He sits on the Board of Trustees for Sports Leaders UK, the Board of Directors for the Adur Outdoor Activities Centre and the Education Board for Apex2100

In today’s conversation I chatted to Shaun all about his work at United Learning, a group of schools providing excellent education. We explored Shaun’s time in Iraq when he was contributing to teacher training at a time when the country was in a re-building stage and how the power of teacher training brought together individuals from different religious and ethnic groups.  We discussed whether the euphoria from the London 2012 Olympics towards sport carried over into sport participation in schools? Shaun spoke about how United Learning surveyed 6000 students to identify the student voice and fin out what they wanted from physical education. We also addressed the hire wire balancing act between addressing the physical EDUCATION part of PE whilst getting in enough moderate to vigorous physical activity during the day for children.

Resources:

Shaun’s twitter: @ShaunD10

Shaun’s’ Instagram: shaundowling10

United Learning: United Learning > Home

Youth Sport Trust: Youth Sport Trust | We are a national charity passionate about creating a brighter future for children and young people through the power of sport

Association for Physical Education: Home - Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E. (afpe.org.uk)

This girl can: This Girl Can

Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”

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Hi everyone, my name is Daniel Elias and welcome back to another episode of the believe move grow podcast.  Today’s feature guest is Kasey Orvidas. I first came across Kasey when I was searching for research on mindset in children and childhood obesity.  Kasey has authored some fantastic research titled Healthy body, healthy mind: A mindset intervention for obese youth. Kasey really knows what she is talking about with a PhD in psychology, a certified health and fitness coach and a specialism in mindset and health behaviour change.  Kasey is also entrepreneurial and has set up her own business named KJO coaching and I will put the links to her website in the resources section.  On her website I would direct everyone to Kasey’s blog which is jam packed with useful information on  a wide variety of topics such as how the g,ut is the second brain through to the three elements of behaviour change and much, much more.  Kasey also trains people to gain a ‘Health Mindset coaching certification’ and having spent an hour chatting to Kasey on my podcast I can attest to the fact that Kasey’s delivery and explanation of mindset is second to none.

Todays conversation was epic.  We covered ground on how exercise is non-negotiable in Kasey’s life, how when Kasey was young, she was not afraid to follow her own path away from what her peers were doing and how “discomfort breeds growth”. We spoke about how obesity traits and behaviours in adulthood can be linked back to childhood and the importance of children learning fundamental movement skills. We went into detail about what separates a growth from a fixed mindset and how we respond to feedback, setbacks and success.  Kasey speaks to her top tips on how to cultivate a growth mindset in children and the importance of teaching compensatory messaging when teaching growth mindset in children. I had a blast recording his conversation so without further ado please welcome Kasey Orvidas to the believe move grow podcast.

Resources:

- Healthy body healthy mind research: Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: A Mindset Intervention for Obese Youth: The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Vol 181, No 6 (tandfonline.com)

- KJO Coaching

- Instagram Kasey: coachkaseyjo

- Twitter Kasey: @coachkaseyjo

- A single‐session growth mindset intervention for adolescent anxiety and depression: 9‐month outcomes of a randomized trial - Schleider - 2018 - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - Wiley Online Library

- Book recommendation – Mindset by Dr Carol S. Dweck Mindset & No sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness by Michelle Seger.

Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children “how much temporary discomfort are you willing to deal with to serve your long-term goal?”

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Hi everyone, my name is Daniel Elias and welcome back for episode 5 of the Believe Move Grow podcast.  My virtual podcast tour around the globe continues and for this episode I have managed to travel down under to Australia to chat with Professor David Lubans. Professor Lubans can be found on twitter via his handle @davidlubans.  Professor Lubans is the theme leader for school-based research in the University of Newcastle’s Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition. Professor Lubans has gained his PhD and Master of Educational Research methodology from the prestigious Oxford University in the UK. His research is focused on understanding the determinants of physical activity and the development and evaluation of interventions in school and community settings.

Professor Lubans is currently leading a number of research projects designed to evaluate the impact of physical activity interventions on behaviour, fitness, movement skills and social and emotional well-being in young people. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and as a chief investigator he has secured over $2 million in competitive research funding. He is the Principal Investigator in two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects focused on the promotion of physical activity and healthy eating among adolescents living in low-income communities.

For me Australia is like a second home and I’ve always admired and envied the opportunity that the outdoor lifestyle offers for physical movement and health.  Even with the weather and beach lifestyle and this postcard image of Australia, Professor Lubans spoke of how, in senior schools, physical exercise was not even mandatory!  This was an eye opener for me and we explored a tonne of other great topics including the importance in modifying environments and facilities to encourage physical activity, how to embed good physical activity practices into the school day,  the importance of fundamental movement skills in childhood, how the intensity of exercise can relate to drop out rates and how to overcome this, what constitutes Professor Luban's physical activity tool belt, and the distinction between primary and secondary school PE teachers.

There are a lot of golden nuggets in this conversation and if you found value in this or previous episodes then please help to share the message on social media via twitter, Instagram and Facebook by entering believemovegrow and subscribe over on apple podcast with a rating and review!  So, without further ado lets get stuck into the podcast with Professor David Lubans.

Resources

David Lubans Twitter handle: @davidlubans

Book recommendations:

 - The Routledge Handbook of Youth Physical Activity - 1st Edition - Timo

 - Make it stick: The science of successful learning by Peter C. Brown

Message in bottle to improve physical activity levels in children:  “promoting active children is the best investment”.

Research:

Time-efficient intervention to improve older adolescents' cardiorespiratory fitness: findings from the 'Burn 2 Learn' cluster randomised controlled trial - PubMed (nih.gov)

Physical activity and skills intervention: SCORES cluster randomized controlled trial - PubMed (nih.gov)

Framework for the design and delivery of organized physical activity sessions for children and adolescents: rationale and description of the ‘SAAFE’ teaching principles | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

Assessing the sustained impact of a school-based obesity prevention program for adolescent boys: the ATLAS cluster randomized controlled trial | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

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Today on the believe more grow podcast I am really excited to present a conversation I had with Professor Stuart Biddle.  I have been aware of Professor Biddle since working on my sport and exercise science degree in 2001 when I was learning about self-efficacy and the likes of intrinsic motivation, which were alien terms to me back in the day. Embarrassingly  I used to carry a blue book around with me title the ‘Psychology of Physical activity’, which was like my bible and was authored by Professor Biddle. Professors Biddles research has as much, if not more, relevance today than when I first came across his work all those years ago.  So, to provide some meat to the bone about Professor Biddles career, let me list off some of his CV highlights – he is a professor of Physical Activity and Health, Director of the Centre for Health Research, and head of the Physically Active Lifestyles Research Group in the Institute for Resilient Regions.  Stuart resides in Brisbane Australia but has previously worked in the UK where he was Head of the School of Sport & Exercise Sciences between 2001 and 2007. Stuart has a PhD in social psychology and his current research interests are centered on sedentary behaviour and physical activity correlates and behaviour change strategies, as well as mental health outcomes. Stuart has co-authored a book on ‘Psychology of Physical Activity with its 4th edition in preparation.

Please enjoy todays conversation whereabouts we tackle a variety of topics on exercise in schools, exercise in children, whether cities  set up for facilitating regular exercise, the exercise mindset, and a debate about whether school sport encapsulates all students or whether it marginalises more than it encourages.

Resources:

Stuart Biddle twitter handle: @stuart_biddle

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Hi everyone and welcome back to episode 3 of the believe move grow podcast!  Today’s podcast is with Paul Zientarski, who I discovered via his brilliant Ted Talk titled “want smarter, healthier kids? Try Physical Education”.  Paul was  department chairman for PE for 26 years in Naperville, Illinois and the Learning Readiness PE Coordinator  for the Naperville School district.  Paul can be found on Twitter via his handle @PaulZientarski and via his website The Learning Readiness PE programme. Throughout this whole conversation it was apparent how passionate Paul is about the importance of physical education for our children and it’s fair to say his programme is pioneering and an amazing blueprint for rocking the boat on how traditional PE is delivered.

Pauls learning readiness programme impacts on children’s behaviour, academia, and obesity. Don’t just  take my word for it that this programme is ground-breaking, as school districts from around the world including Denmark, China, Korea, Sweden, Japan, Australia and Denmark visit Naperville to learn about the programme.

Paul also presents on a wide variety of subjects including Learning Readiness PE, childhood obesity, PE curriculum, tech use in PE, small sided games, brain breaks in the classroom and active classrooms.

In todays podcast we discuss why Paul believes PE to be the most important subject , why spending time on locomotor skills is important when under 10 years of age and when to introduce more sport related skills. Paul also talk’s about his idea of small-sided games in order to always keep kids moving in PE. He takes us through his programme design which included 28 activities and his  students had to fulfil  20 fitness requirements. With such a detailed programme I was interested if Paul ever got any kick back or resistance to his methods and Paul detailed how he educated parents and children to gain their buy in. Paul also passionately explains why it is so important for all academic teachers to understand how the brain works, in order to get children ready to learn! So, without further ado please enjoy my conversation with Paul Zientarski

Resources:

Paul Zientarski – Learning Readiness PE

Twitter: @PaulZientarski

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Episode Notes:

Today I am sharing a conversation I was fortunate to have with Dr Charles Hillman who is an expert in cognition and brain health.   For those of you not familiar with his work I’ll let his resume do the talking.   Dr Hillman works out of the Northeastern University in Boston where he currently holds appointments in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences.  Prior to this Dr Hillman was a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health for 16 years at the University of Illinois.  He co-directs the new Centre for Cognitive and Brain Health, which has the mission of understanding the role of health behaviours on brain and cognition to maximize health and well-being and promote the effective functioning of individuals across the lifespan.  Dr Hillman is a prolific researcher having contributed to more than 225 refereed journal articles and 12 book chapters and he has recently contributed to the 2018 2nd edition of the Physical Activity  Guidelines for Americans.  With such a wealth of knowledge it’s safe to say I had a lot of questions rattling around in my head!

After I managed to cull my mountain  of questions, we tackled a variety of topics on the child brain, childhood obesity, and exercise in children. We discussed how society has engineered physical exercise out of our lives and explored the challenges of getting enough physical education time into the school curriculum and discussed the many benefits of exercise for cognition and academic performance.

Resources:

Charles twitter handle: @CBHLab

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