RECOMMENDED WATCHING & LISTENING
TED Talks / videos
Why Working Out Isn't Working Out | Darryl Edwards | 4/8/19 |
Functional Fitness & Its Necessity | Shewtambari Shetty | 2/3/18 |
Stronger Bones, Longer Life | Dr. Lani Simpson | 6/1/16 |
The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki | 3/21/18 | (Wendy Suzuki was one of my neuroscience professors at NYU!)
The gift and power of emotional courage | Susan David | 2/20/18 |
Why humans run the world | Yuval Noah Harari | 7/24/15 |
How to make stress your friend | Kelly McGonigal | 9/4/13 |
Your body language shapes who you are | Amy Cuddy | 6/8/13 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3g6s7NTnDE |
Richard Simmons, Fitness Expert and Advocate, testified before the Committee on Education and Labor at a hearing concerning childhood obesity and physical health and education | 7/24/08 |
** What I personally love about this testimony is his message that you don't have to be an athlete or love sports to love being physical - there are endless ways to get and stay physically active, so pick one YOU love! - Alyssa **
Podcasts
Huberman Lab | Dr. Huberman is a professor of Neurobiology at Stanford, and offers great research and tools on many different topics related to the brain and behavior.
Finding Fred | 2020
Peter Attia, MD's The Drive: Matthew Walker, Ph.D., On Sleep Parts I-III (Episodes 47-49) | 4/1 - 4/15/19 | This is an excellent talk about the mechanisms and importance of sleep. There is a lot of talk about race car driving at the end of some of these that I skipped through. There are also a lot of other good episodes on this podcast.