Episode 21: The Founder of Move, Live, Learn, Dr. Amanda Stanek
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
Release Date: 03/30/2021
Episode 33: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 3
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“If you really try to give too much instruction at this age, you can really cause a child to struggle later on. So, just being supportive and motivating them to do the best of their abilities is really what we're going for.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Fundamental movement skills are important through the ages of two to five. Children grow and learn through their own developmental experiences, which creates unique...
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Episode 32: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 2
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“If I can feel them pushing down on my hands, if they're able to do it, when they're holding my hands, then we can kind of progress from there to kind of get an understanding of why they are struggling with doing it.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In Part Two of the Fundamental Movement Skills Series, Karen and Farah discuss how to support children in their developmental stages based on the way they learn. Every...
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Episode 31: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 1
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“As they [children] continue to grow, they keep building these little blocks on top of each one. And that's what enables them to be able to do these more complicated skills as they get older.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In Part One of the Fundamental Movement Skills Series, Karen and Farah explain fundamental movement skills and their importance in a child’s growth. They explore how sibling relationships,...
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Episode 30: What Does Fearless Mean To You?
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“No matter how successful you are or whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Fearless is a term we use in this podcast a lot - it’s one of our favorite things to ask our guests! From being fearless in the face of failures to being fearless in the face of great obstacles, there is nothing like that...
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Episode 29: Understanding Different Types of Learning
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“If they're struggling to gain a skill, and you directly focus in a way that they learn really well, it might be a much easier way for them to at least understand what you want them to do, and then have a greater willingness to want to keep trying.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In an entertaining and informative episode, Karen and Farah talk about the different types of learners. One could determine the styles in...
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Episode 28: Why is Mentorship SO Important
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“No matter how successful you are or whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Having a mentor in the early stages of your child’s adolescence could phenomenally help their overall development. That is why in today’s episode, Farah and Karen speak about the importance of a mentor or guide for children....
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Episode 27: Stress Vs Stressor & What they do to us
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“No matter what struggle or challenge that we're going through, we will come out stronger on the other side.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In today’s episode, Karen and Farah talk about stress and break down the various coping strategies for stress. While we as adults struggle to deal with everyday anxiety and express our concerns circling the same, we fail to notice that kids could experience the same. The...
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Episode 26: Cosmic Wisdom Coaching | Teen Specialist , Robin Wald
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“It’s okay to fail, you're learning. It's not about perfectionism, it's about bringing joyfulness to it.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In an enlightening conversation today, meet Robin Wald, an expert coach, teacher, and educator. Robin walks us through her fulfilling life journey into becoming a certified wellness coach for children and explaining her lessons. We learn new ways to impart courage in children to...
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Episode 25 What Fitness For the whole Child Actually Mean?
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“Leaving in the space and the opportunity to try everything so that they can learn what works for them is definitely what they're going to need.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In today’s episode, Karen and Farah break down the concept of the whole child and talk about the importance of social-emotional learning in children. Karen and Farah discuss why they believe that every feeling is a good feeling and how it always...
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Episode 24 : Why Play is So Important?
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
K & F_Play_Show Notes “Encouraging children to go outside in all weather builds resilience, but more importantly, it saves them from spending their life, merely tolerating the bad days in favor of a handful of good ones.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. How can you make your children more adaptable to the different challenges that come their way? Sometimes, bad weather could be your child’s best teacher. It could...
info_outlineAmanda Stanek Show Notes
“It is also critical that kids learn certain skills within that grade three to five window or else it becomes a lot more challenging.”
The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults.
Today, we are joined by Dr. Amanda Stanek, who talks to us about the huge role of PE and fitness in a child's life. If you have wondered how one could differentiate fitness from sport, you are sure to find insightful answers from the conversation we had with Amanda. Empowerment is our keyword today. As she shares her backstory with us, Amanda makes us understand why children need to feel the positivity, joy, and fulfillment that they need from physical activities. Children need to fall in love with and enjoy movement.
Tune in to learn how you can empower kids to lives their best lives and set them up for ultimate success!
About the Guest:
Dr. Amanda Stanek is the founder of Move, Live, Learn, an organization that is committed to helping people live healthier lives, created by accident, as she says while taking time off from teaching and professing to raise her three daughters. Move Live Learn's unique insights are from the same hallways as their clients, not the glass towers of consultants. Amanda has an amazing portfolio of credentials and awards, and experience.
She says she was older when starting her family. And so she had already been a professor and been thinking about these things before she became a mom. Having the girls really influenced her to start Move, Live, Learn.
TimeStamps:
- [00:51] Amanda shares her life story with us
- [08:11] How do you differentiate fitness from sport?
- [18:09] How are we going to set our kids up for success in the best way that we can?
- [23:35] Rene Brown’s work
- [36:27] Amanda talks about her knee surgery three years post college
- [41:56] Talking books and research
- [50:29] How did fitness start becoming important to Amanda?
- [54:21] What does fearless means to her?
- [57:03] Some of the attributes or characteristics that are really memorable to some of the coaches or teachers that she has had over the years
- [01:04:55] Connect with Amanda
Quotes:
“In an ideal world, ideal situation, we are exposing kids to all types of physical activity, so they find the one or ones that bring them joy.”
“They do want to move, they just want opportunities to find ways to do so that's joyful.”
“It is also critical that kids learn certain skills within that grade three to five window or else it becomes a lot more challenging.”
“I want these children to fall in love and feel joy with movement because we all know that we feel happier. We feel more positive, we have more patience, and we are way more empowered.”
“You want every kid to just look at everything through that movement lens. And in order for that to happen, they know they don't just have to because we know physical activity is good.”
“We have to experience the joy and the empowerment, to make decisions.”
Connect with Amanda :
Website: http://movelivelearn.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/amanda-stanec-phd/68/2a8/a7b