
Rick Howard
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Jul 30, 2026
Finding the Common Language - Decoding Fitness Guidelines and Goals
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Aesha TahirHOST
So I just wanna explore that a little bit more for our listeners and viewers to understand what we are talking about.
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12:22Rick HowardGUEST
So the, the pyramid for physical activity, when it came out, prescribed what we should think about doing.
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12:28Rick HowardGUEST
So, um, like, chores were at the base of the pyramid, and it's also at the base of the pyramid for children and youth.
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12:36Rick HowardGUEST
I'm like, all right, so how many 10-year-olds are gonna really rally behind doing chores, right? Vacuuming is on the list, and all these different things that, yeah, you know, somebody probably came up with a list that these are great activities.
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12:47Rick HowardGUEST
When you look at how we categorize activity, and we're looking at some of those moderate activities, these are nice moderate activities.
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Aesha TahirHOST
So where, where do you stand with that? How can an everyday busy professional incorporate it into their lives?
Reframing LTAD as LTActD: Long-Term Activity Development
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7:20BenHOST
And I could see the difference in how maintaining, I wish it had been more physical activity, but maintaining a higher level of physical activity than my mom did who passed a few years ago, who definitely didn't have the same quality of life later in life.
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7:35Rick HowardGUEST
You know, Ben, you bring up a really interesting point because it really is all about our perspective, isn't it? So your dad's perspective, like if I'm not doing the real thing, it's not real.
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7:43Rick HowardGUEST
And I think what we see with long-term athletic development or athlete development, both words are used in these models is, is that we get this notion of an elite athlete.
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7:53Rick HowardGUEST
And going back through the special feature issue, it's interesting if you note the titles of the other articles.
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8:05Rick HowardGUEST
The last one is by Eisenman and colleagues, and he was looking at the differences between PE teachers and strength coaches, what they knew, what they didn't, what they're practicing.
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12:46BenHOST
wide variety of readers of the SCJ, but if we think about the strength coaches, the personal trainers, the people working in the tactical space who may be working with people we consider elite athletes, or just somebody who's your next door neighbor who's working for the fire department or the police department, What's the role of that NSCA member, that NSCA certificate, as far as taking the information from this article, reframing LTAD as LT or long-term activity development? How can they use information in that in their jobs? Maybe one or two key points that you think most people would be able to use.
VBC Insights: Encore Episode: AI in Population Health: Value vs Hype with Dr. David Nash
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16:54Rick HowardGUEST
Well, I think maybe the administrative side might be a little further than the clinical side, but Dr. Nash just made an important alignment around how you support a clinical workflow.
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17:10Rick HowardGUEST
We need to look at things in the form of how does a physician get an instruction inside of their sourcing system so that they're following a best practice? The industry calls that a computerized clinical practice guideline.
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17:23Rick HowardGUEST
AI-driven computerized practice guidelines that are already interfaced or, more importantly, interoperable with an EMR can slide that instruction into the EMR even to the point of a change.
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17:38Rick HowardGUEST
Think about making a change as simple as going from an IV-based antibiotic to a tablet-based antibiotic.
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17:46Rick HowardGUEST
Most people don't understand there's a significant cost alignment between those two particular distribution points of an antibiotic.
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17:54Rick HowardGUEST
If we can trigger that decision inside the EMR to say it's time to move based on all of the data that the AI engine has now formulated and understands where the patient is at that particular point in time, you can now make that switch between the IV-based antibiotic and the tablet-based antibiotic.
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