Amanda 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