137: Rod Dixon | How This Marathoner Got Kids to Do Better In School

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Olympic marathoner Rod Dixon believes in the transformative power of physical activity so much that he started the Kids Marathon program. He won the New York Marathon in 1983 and an Olympic Bronze, now his program trains kids to run as soon as they enter school. The schools are realizing that keeping kids active brings test scores up, improves student’s focus and brain power, and reduces the reliance on pharmaceuticals to keep the more rambunctious kids in line. What Dixon also found through his program is that the healthy habits percolate up to the adults.

Lessons:

1. Instead of medicating kids in school, keep them active.

2. Physical and nutritional education are essential.

3. Kids are capable. 

Links: Rod Dixon's KiDSMARATHON http://www.kidsmarathonfoundation.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Amy Barn in Pittsfield, Vermont.
0:03.4	Hey Colonel, I, do you know what time it is?
0:05.0	It's time for you to pay for the Spartan Up podcast.
0:08.4	Okay.
0:09.4	So I'm talking about great things with the one and only Joe DeSena, the one and only Johnny
0:14.8	Waite, of course the one and only Colonel Knight, myself, there's another girl named
0:18.6	Suffra and Telluride, and Marion, who we all love dearly.
0:23.2	This is a great podcast of one I'm super excited to watch
0:26.0	because this guy started something called the Kids Marathon
0:28.8	and the whole ethos for this is Inspire and Power Kids.
0:31.8	So this is an 8 to 10 week program.
0:33.9	I did some research on it before we watched it.
0:35.5	Don't tell too much.
0:36.5	Well, can I just explain about how they do the marathon?
0:39.4	Only if you tell us the guy's name.
0:41.2	Rod Dixon. We are in Vermont we're checking out what did they call it
0:49.8	leaf peeping or leaf keeping? With a peep?
0:53.0	With leaf peeping technically.
0:54.8	This whole mountain and everything around here
0:56.7	is going to turn yellow, red, like nothing
0:58.9	you've ever seen before.
1:00.0	Do they have any pictures?
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