Movement Play Enhances Learning in a Big Way
Imagine a child outside wildly running through a field and coming across a wide stream. Having never crossed a stream before, she hesitates. She looks... Read More
Building Strong Foundations: The Base Build Boost Approach to Teaching Movement to Kids
Let’s dive into a concept that is essential to how Brand X® teaches movement to kids: Base – Build – Boost. Base, Build and Boost represent three distinct phases kids go through... Read More
A Canary In The Coal Mine
This image, a fixture in our gym, Brand X® -The Lab, for years, now proudly hangs in my home gym. Its significance lies in the... Read More
Youth Fitness For Parents: How does physical literacy help the sedentary child?
Alarmingly, in 2023 most kids in the US rely on sports to get their physical activity. In most cases this is their only physical activity. According... Read More
Youth Fitness for Parents: How does physical literacy help your athlete?
If you are a parent with kids in sports, you might be wondering “How is all this talk of physical literacy going to help my... Read More
Youth Fitness for Parents: Creating Competency with Brand X® Movement Skills
In our last segment we spoke about the three elements a trainer can influence to increase physical literacy. In this blog we are going to... Read More
Youth Fitness for Parents: 3 Elements Affecting Physical Literacy
So we have talked about what physical literacy is, and how kids organically learn it, but also that kids are not having the opportunities to... Read More
Youth Fitness for Parents:
How Do We Build Physical Literacy in a Brand X® Program
In our last blog we discussed what physical literacy is. Understanding what it is, next we need to discuss how kids become physically literate. Kids... Read More
Youth Fitness for Parents
Defining Physical Literacy
By Jeff MartinDecember 1 2022 What is Physical Literacy?Every child should be able to run, jump, throw, catch, tumble, climb, and many other basic skills... Read More
Mikki Lee Martin on Chopra.com on Play
There is nothing we like to geek out over more than Play (except maybe the deadlift, but we will save that for another time) It... Read More