The Youth Fitness Podcast™

S1E14: Jason Khalipa: Utilizing Fitness to form long term healthy habits "Meeting your kids where they are".
"The Legend" Jason Khalipa joins the Martin family to talk about training his own children in fitness and youth sport, and offers valuable insights, takeaways and strategies for instilling long-term healthy habits, and above all "Meeting them where they are at."
Episode Highlights:
4:24 How training everyday with your kids looks, nurturing perspectives and personality
7:18 Consistency and allowing the kids to ask when it's time for more
11:02 With his daughter, listening and giving her what she wants with a little of what she needs
12:40 Focusing on what is important, they had fun and they moved today
13:39 The kids recognize that when they move, they feel better
14:36 Jasons' Helpful Tips: (1) Human movement is critical (2) Do what you want but you've got to move (3) Use fitness as a tool to de-stress and learn how to overcome adversity
16:50 Motivation & Goals will differ, fitness as a supplement to everything else they do, group sports are critically important
18:33 Strength and Conditioning should be used to fill in the gaps that sport cannot
22:00 Adding dynamic work between/during sport skill sessions
22:15 Self Defense Sundays and Bullying
24:50 Talking Strategies with your kids
29:04 Childhood Leukemia, Joy Jars, NEGU and Ava's Kitchen
32:35 Fun Reasons (for Jason) to train, Rogue Invitational "Legends, and Jiu Jitsu
35:40 For those parents struggling to get their kids moving, "It didn't happen overnight"
38:55 "Meeting them where they are at" Forcing it won't help build long term habits
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#NEGU
#AVASKITCHEN
#TheBrandXMethod #BrandX
#TheAthleteCoachNetwork
#TheRogueInvitational