The Youth Fitness Podcast™

Jeff and Keegan Martin host Coach Dan Quesenberry of Brand X® Nashville and Ravenwood High School Strength Coach to discuss running an effective High School Strength & Conditioning program. Coach Q, was named Physical Education teacher of the year for The State of Tennessee in 2018, has over 20 years teaching PE to youth within schools, and has Coached High School Football for over 15 years. We talk about the what, why and hows surrounding implementing a new and successful strength and conditioning program within a High School setting.

Episode Highlights:

2:39 "Because You can Doesn't mean you should"

3:58 Teens and the "Ignore-Question-Trust " process

5:36 How did you introduce Brand X® principles?

8:05 Thoughtfully jumping into an existing Program, Freshman to Seniors

10:40 In Season Programming

11:05 Tips on How a positive impact on CNS and motor pattern emphasis can co exist

14:58 Training protocols, overtraining and rest & recovery

16:48 Balancing "The Outcomes" Versus "The Culture"

19:06 Team Training Logistics

23:35 Staffing, Organization and Tracking Magic

28:45 Developing a great Culture

31:36 Tips on selling Strength & Durability

35:00 Communication with athletes who do "extra" training

38:10 Success Stories

44:28 Brand X® Nashville The Lab

45:39 Female Athletes #LetHerLift

Links:

RavenwoodStrength on Twitter https://twitter.com/wcsRHSstrength?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

BrandX®Nashville on instagram https://www.instagram.com/brandxnashville/

In their first podcast appearance as a family, Dr. Kelly Starrett, Juliet Starrett and their accomplished daughters, Georgia and Caroline. aka "The Quad of House Starrett" Join The Youth Fitness Podcast, Keegan Martin, Jeff and Mikki to add their perspectives and stories on growing up in, and raising a Movement Focused Family. Feeding, eating, sleeping and moving, modeling movement, the importance of community, a map for kids athletic development in sport, delicious cookies and more.

Youth Game described by Lily of Brand X® St Louis, "Marco Polo Dodgeball"

Episode Highlights:

3:35 "Veggies & Eggs"

5:20 Candy and contraband

8:48 #1 Eat Food, and #2 Sleep

Keeping an awareness not to create disordered eating

11:26 Georgia's Bake Shop

15:08 How modeling, a community and movement choices create a plan for healthy active kids

17:30 Gaining knowledge of how movement makes you FEEL, movement motivation goals and scheduling

20:00 Tipping the Stress bucket, the value of exposure to a multitude of sports and a diverse

movement skill set, using skilled conditioning and movement snacks

29:40 Perspectives on the advantages to having some Strength & Conditioning background, the biggest positive takeaways

33:45 Planting the seeds, getting involved with your kids teams

44:18 Experiencing how fun it is to be fit and be on adventures, model it!

46:37 As parents on the sidelines, as kids on the field, "If I care they care, If I don't care they don't care."

51:00 The Starretts roadmap to Youth Athletic Development

Links:

GeorgiasBakeShop.com

TheReadyState.com

The Sport Parent is one of the most common client avatars for Youth Fitness Coaches.

Jeff, Mikki & Keegan discuss basic strategies for communication with and education of invested sporty families on how youth coaches support their goals. Expectations, exposure, passion and current sporting realities are all on the table.

Episode Highlights:

2:15 In many ways Sports Parents are the easiest to talk with, they immediately give you their goals

3:10 Bringing a passion for kids success

3:56 Parents often romanticize their sport experience 

5:56 Is more better?

7:15 Studies show college recruiters now look for 2-3 sport athletes

9:35 Motor pattern training and strength are protective and always support parents goals.

10:40 Staff Tips 

Our amazing and accomplished friend Dr. Cort Payne drops in to talk with us about training youth, clinical setting experiences how we connected while he was coaching kids for the Healthy Hearts program at Children's Heart Center of Nevada, pathways for continuing fitness for lifelong health and developing trust and positive environments as the basis for youth to thrive physically.

Pop's Gym

We end with a game, as  Ethan and Tommy, age 14 of Fit 2 Shine, a Brand X® Training Center in Sydney, Australia present their favorite game, "Tyre Sled Pull".

Highlights:

2:30

Dr. Cort Payne and the Healthy Hearts Program at Children's Heart Center Nevada

6:35

Collaborative family nutritional models, athletes and peer impact awareness 

10:13

Observations on clinical setting programs and local community support tactics for ongoing healthy futures

14:15 

Education and Professional growth, the importance of local community networking and the legacy of Pop's gym 

18:30

One thing youth Coaches should know...

Kids & Teens need a positivity rich experience to stay engaged enough to create lasting impact

20:33

Developing Trust - "I always knew you would protect us" 

22:34

"It's 100% about Skill development" youth are literally still developing a system, leave room for growth

24:34

Promote small incremental adjustments over time, avoiding the need to regress and de-load

25:48

Positivity rich environments, successful days, great feedback and the non physical aspects that motivate

28:09

Trust your program, physical results will come. 

Developing resiliency and supporting good mental health through confidence, competence and trust

31:26

Challenging gross movement patterns for preschoolers and the joy of Movement Play

35:55

Age relevancy and sport

37:09

Local Good Works for Youth and Doing What is Best For Kids™

The Martins' discuss and define the concept of the often mentioned phrase "Movement Solutions". Sadly, youth do not experience the same number of opportunities for exploration and experimentation within movement as they did a decade ago. 

A variety of proven ideas are presented that can boost opportunities for movement exploration and learning within your youth program. 

We end with a Guest Game with Lily Of Brand X® St Louis describing "Steal the Bacon"

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Please check our Instagram account @thebrandxmethod for April 19 2022 for the referenced video

Episode Highlights:

1:20 What are Movement Solutions? for a visual see IG post April 19 2022 of two boys and two solutions

2:43 Training efficiency and increased toolset through exposure to a multitude of environments and patterns 

5:18 Concrete pre teen and teen examples in programming, plus open ended tasks, allowing for exploration and experimentation

8:20 How peer group learning accelerates movement solution toolsets

9:50 Concrete kids examples in programming, Limbo and Follow the Spartan Leader Obstacle Course

10:55 Base Build Boost in application to Movement Solutions 

Jeff and Mikki and Special Guest Paul Ticen of Paul Ticen Law discuss two common mistakes trainers make that can increase exposure as well as a few actionable Best Practices.

Show Highlights:

4:51 Helping Listeners avoid the two most common mistakes

5:24 The role of the trainer, manager or owner

10:15 Does Youth specific education matter?

12:26 #1 most common mistake - Not projecting forward the repercussions of your plan, are they lowering or mitigating risk?

12:38 #2 most common mistake- Not using proper exercise progressions

13:44 Long term safety and Incremental progressions with vulnerable populations

15:35 Best practices with youth include: avoiding the 2 most common mistakes, incremental progression and avoiding shiny objects.

Hop on with Jeff, Keegan, Mikki for easy to follow ideas on how to approach and present nutrition in a developmentally appropriate way, while avoiding the minefield of concerns surrounding food, family, culture, myths and eating disorders.

Bonus advice from a future full interview episode featuring Special Guest Alfia Dunbar MS who currently works in a therapeutic setting to assist youth to recover from eating disorders.

Show Highlights:

1:05 Developing a healthy relationship with food

2:44 5 year olds and macros? avoiding good bad framing

5:02-7:59 Alfia, awareness from an expert in the field, eating disorders and bringing youth back to health

8:32 "All the time foods", and "sometimes foods"

10:24 Base Build Boost developmental appropriateness and avoiding the rush to performance based concepts

13:00 Performance stage and the education process

14:09 Parental engagement, facts and the minefield of emotion and culture surrounding nutrition

Jeff, Keegan and Mikki discuss common issues with youth lifting protocols and optimized strategies and solutions for best development, engagement, strength and success. 

The Martins programs created over 100 Youth State and National Records for dozens of kids and teens aged 8-17 over five year period

Guest, Sorcha age 14, of FSM Youths a Brand X® Lab in Wicklow Ireland with her favorite game, "Kettlebell Races”

Episode Highlights:

1:19 Movement Patterns & Loading can be separate 

3:03 Pairing non complex strength with platform work

4:19 Honoring motor learning and plateaus 

7:35 Tension and building strength around the Core and Hips

13:30 Favorite Methods

 A world class example of providing excellent, motivating, empowering and movement rich environments in schools

Justin Harris, Athletic Director and PE Teacher Extraordinaire for Forsyth School in St Louis, Missouri,

parent, sport coach and Brand X® Staff member, talks with Jeff and Mikki about School programs, 

strength & conditioning as sport support, a parents role guiding and mentoring, taking risk and flying squirrels.

Today's youth guests are Frances and friends from Brand X Stockholm describing the "flip the cone" game.

Keegan Martin discusses with his parents his own experience and perspective on coaching your own kids. Together Keegan, Jeff and Mikki provide advice, strategies and tactics to create positive outcomes.

Lily from Brand X® St Louis describes another favorite kids game.

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