It is an honour and a privilege to have Helen Douglas with us today on the Believe Move Grow podcast! I’ve known Helen for years as a fantastic  friend and clinician. Helen is a highly specialised paediatric physiotherapist who works at the world renowned Great Ormand Street Hospital for Children. Helen is also a senior teaching fellow on the University College London Post-Graduate course in advanced Physiotherapy and is also currently completing her PhD on exercise adherence in children and young people with cystic fibrosis.  Helen is world renowned in her field and has presented her work in Nashville USA and has been as far as Kazakhstan to train healthcare professionals on cystic fibrosis management!

In today’s podcast we explore Helen’s research into exercise adherence in cystic fibrosis and although this is in a specific population there are lots of great points to take away to apply to exercise in children and young people in general.  We delve in to the predictors and barriers to exercise adherence, how working on physical activity skills and competence earlier in life is important, the importance of  finding a child’s exercise identity, how parental anxieties can impact positively and negatively on a child’s exercise participation and the importance of children finding their place in the active world.

Resources:

- Helen’s Twitter handle - @hldouglas

- The daily mile initiative - https://thedailymile.co.uk/

-   Research on exercise in CF and exercise: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325511669_P144_Exercise_love_it_hate_it_or_somewhere_in-between_Identifying_exercise_self-efficacy_and_the_impact_of_personal_training_in_children_and_young_people_with_CF

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Hi guys.  Welcome to the Believe Move Grow podcast. My name is Daniel Elias, a Physiotherapist with a mission to improve the health of children and young people to facilitate a healthy, happy existence. Every week I’ll be interviewing experts in the field of exercise, cognition, mindset training, pedagogy, psychology, nutrition and sleep, with the aim to find out what the leading clinicians, researchers and teachers are working on to allow children the chance to reach their full potential in a healthy, balanced way.

In this preview episode I have taken a snippet from a conversation I had with Professor Stuart Biddle where we discuss exercise mindset in children and whether school sport in physical education is enough to encourage all children to develop lifelong exercise habits.

I hope you enjoyed this little teaser for what is to come and if you enjoyed todays chat please subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and send the podcast link to friends and colleagues to get the conversation out into the ether on how we can improve our children’s future physical, and mental health. Take care for now and remember always keep believing, moving and growing!

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