TMHS 113: Family Fitness Ideas For Better Health, Happiness, And Connection

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Mahatma Ghandi's epic quote, "Be the change you want to see in the world," begins in your own home. Our family, friends, and (most importantly) our children are mimicking and modeling us more than we know. Science has proven that we are, in fact, a direct product of our environment. You can set up an environment that cultivates healthy automatically as a side effect. Or, on the flip side, you can unconsciously be setting up an environment that breeds low energy, obesity, and poor health if you're not careful. Today's show is all about how to set things up in your life so that your family has the health, fitness, and vitality that they deserve. There are lots of fun ideas and insights here, so click play, enjoy, and put a few things into action! In this episode you'll discover: Why we all need to get plenty of "nutritious movement". The shocking amount of time that the average person spends sitting. The functions that mirror neurons have in our brains. What intuition really is. Why most people workout despite having kids. How parents end up compromising their health in order to facilitate their kid's activities. 9 different family fitness ideas that you can easily add in to your lives. How playground workouts can be fun for kids AND parents. How to utilize your local gym as your kids get older. What my 14-year old son has to say about growing up witnessing my focus on health. How "coopertition" works to improve the connection with your family fitness habits. 4 critical tips for involving your kids in family fitness. Items mentioned in this episode include: Onnit.com/Model <== Get your optimal health & performance supplements at 10% off! How Sitting Can Destroy Your Health - The Model Health Show Move Your DNA by Katy Bowman Shawn Stevenson on Instagram The Good Dad Project Podcast (Apple Podcasts / Website) <-- Check out our new show here! Interview with Chalene Johnson - The Model Health Show Interview with Bob Proctor - The Model Health Show Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Model Health Show. If you haven’t done so already, please take a minute and leave a quick rating and review of the show on Apple Podcasts by clicking on the link below. It will help us to keep delivering life-changing information for you every week! Click Here to Subscribe via Apple Podcasts Click Here to Subscribe via Stitcher Click Here to Subscribe via RSS (non-Apple Podcasts feed)

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0:00.0	This podcast of the Model Health Show is presented to you by Sean Stevenson with Rare Jim Productions.
0:06.5	For more information visit the Sean StevensonModel.com.
0:14.6	Welcome to the Model Health Show, this fitness nutrition expert Sean Stevenson here with
0:18.2	my beautiful co-host and producer Jade. Hooray, what's up Jade? What's up Sean? She loves the camera.
0:25.2	I just love our lovely listeners. Me too. And guys, by the way, are you checking out the show
0:32.0	over on YouTube as well? Because we are putting you in the studio with us. You can check out those
0:37.7	videos. Go to themodelhealthshow.com and you can check out the videos for a lot of the most recent
0:42.9	episodes. Right, hang out with us. We have in a good time. Yeah, we do.
0:46.7	So we've got an amazing show lined up for you guys today. Today we're going to be talking about
0:50.3	year-round family fitness ideas. Because it's so important, is it not? Not for just ourselves,
0:57.4	but for our entire family. And for me, I just got into reading a book by an upcoming guest,
1:04.3	Katie Bowman, and it's called Move Your DNA. And she talks about this idea that we need to get more
1:10.6	nutritious movement, not just nutritious food, because we look at our food and things we take from
1:15.8	the outside of the world and put into our inside world, things that become part of us.
1:21.5	And by the way, what we eat is really the most intimate thing that we experience as human beings,
1:26.0	because we're taking stuff from outside and putting it into our holy temple. And it's a really
1:32.7	intimate process, but our movement needs to be more nutritious as well. And there's lots of
1:36.4	different meals that you get, maybe with your certain exercise. But there are also important
1:41.4	supplements that you get, maybe by standing more, doing certain stretches. So movement is critical.
1:47.4	And this is a big part of our lives, because it's not just about exercise. And we've talked about
1:53.3	this on previous shows. The word exercise is derived from the word exorcism. Right? Creepy.
2:00.8	It's derived from the word exorcism, which really means to get the stuff out of you that's not
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