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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 Stack

The 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 Melstrand

Mission 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 Hastings

Researching 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 classroom
Play 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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