Episode 28: Why is Mentorship SO Important
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
Release Date: 06/08/2021
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_outline“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. Considering every child is unique and has different social, behavioral, and cognitive abilities, they require unique mentors to support them in their various stages. We also see through the advancements that have happened in the fitness world since the early 2000s. Women trainers of the past weren’t as approachable as they are today. Attitudes and ways of connecting have significantly changed for the better, and there are plenty of genuine mentors available in the field of fitness now!
Tune in to the episode today to learn the role of mentors in your child’s life and set them up for ultimate success!
TimeStamps:
- [01:07] Farah talks about the importance of having a mentor in middle school
- [05:54] Farah shares the story of how her PE teacher and tennis coach instilled in her values like sportsmanship and team spirit
- [09:15] Key elements of being a mentor
- [10:42] How the world of fitness training evolved from the early 2000
- [13:02] Why do we say that the mentor needs and expectations of each child are different?
Quotes:
“There's research to show that middle school is when kids really need to have an adult in their life, who they can talk to, and they can feel safe with, who's not a parent.”
“My favorite thing to say is how my eighth grade PE teacher said in my yearbook, 80% of life is going to be about being on time and being dressed appropriately.”
“No matter how successful you are, whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.”
“It's cool to see how mentorship can go in so many different ways... how we can as peers provide mentorship to our friends even just on a daily basis.”
“I love that we also provide our coaches with all that support to understand the different social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral differences that can take place between the ages.”
“It's just a constant reminder to us as well to believe in myself, and remember why we're doing this. Because I wish I had that as a kid and knowing how much fitness and strength from the inside out, impacted me at different junctures in life.”