In this episode, Daryl and Matt discuss why they decided to take their conversations around the billion dollar sports industry and share them in a podcast for parent’s coaches, and organizations. Daryl and Matt have known each other for over two decades where their paths have crossed multiple times through their shared passion for personal training, sports, and supporting development in the industry.

Daryl interviews Matt on his journey in the personal training transforming the industry using this sport experience, skills, and training. Rather than focusing on weight loss, Matt looked at how people wanted to improve their health and fitness to achieve goals they didn’t think were attainable.

Matt’s mantra at his clubs was: Challenge. Adversity. Victory.

After success in evolving the personal training industry, Matt continued to build businesses and programs diving him deeper into the sports system. He saw an opportunity to bring stakeholders together from athletes, parents, physical education teachers, officials, coaches, sport organizations and admissions to be accountable for creating enjoyable sport experiences for youth. 

Check out Quality Sports Hub at www.qualitysporthub.com/ to find information from the best in the industry and resources to create quality sport experiences. 

In this episode, Matt and Daryl interview Rick Howard, NSCA Godfather. Rick shares his expert knowledge on the importance of strength and conditioning training in youth athletes in order to unlock dormant potential. He explains how a stronger athlete is a more confident athlete, able to perform at levels that would otherwise not be possible. He also dispels the myths around youth and strength training to reveal a pathway for long-term progression.

In this episode, Matt and Daryl discuss a question they get a lot from parents which is, how do I know if my child is at the participation level or high performance level when it comes to sports? They lay out the criteria that should be used in making this determination and temper parental expectations that can become a detriment in long-term development and potentially turn their kids off of sport.

In this episode, Matt and Daryl interview Gord McLelland, the founder of Working with Parents in Sport. Gord does a fantastic job of explaining the root cause of poor parental behaviour when it comes to participating in their kid's sports, from environmental factors to latent learned behaviours form their own experiences. He helps to identify potential pitfalls and how to avoid them to more healthily participate in your child's sport development.

In this episode, Matt and Daryl interview Glenn Young, educational change and healthy living consultant who helps with physical education curriculum for schools in New York, Washington, California, Colorado, Montana, British Columbia and China to name a few.  He helps to paint the landscape on the current state of physical education in schools and what steps can be taken to correct the downward trajectory.

In this episode, Matt and Daryl discuss the importance of children's free play in the development of motor skills need for sports participation and its impact on helping to cultivate healthy social interactions and the ability to self-govern through conflict resolution.

In this episode, Matt and Daryl discuss the factors they are seeing from around the world that are contributing to lower sport participation numbers amongst today's youth. The discussion starts to focus on leadership flaws to be on the lookout for and provides recommendations on how to foster better results.

Welcome to the Just Go Play Podcast where we look to develop and promote a positive youth sports experience. In this inaugural episode we reveal why we created Just Go Play, what it is and who it's for.