EP307: Nutrition Coach and Teacher Lindsey Allen on the Evolving World of Education and Nutrition

Nutrition coach and teacher Lindsey Allen joins The Weight Room. She is both an NASM Certified Personal Trainer and an NASM Certified Nutrition Coach along with being a full-time nutrition teacher. In this episode we chat about how she got into fitness and nutrition, getting into teaching, different teaching styles that she utilizes to engage her students, cooking with high school students, and implementing social media into her teaching. We also chat about utilizing social media and podcasts for education, making connections, and figuring out what you're passionate about. To wrap things up we discuss the evolution of education due to technology, teaching students how to use these tools effectively, how fitness has changed in the past 5 years, and self care and what that really means.

0:00 - Introduction

01:00 - Getting into fitness

03:00 - Getting into teaching nutrition

05:37 - Connecting with students, learning to teach

09:37 - Cooking with high school kids

14:56 - Social Media and technology in teaching high school

19:50 - Utilizing technology and social media

23:45 - Learning how to be a teacher

30:49 - Creating curriculum for nutrition

35:16 - First day of school as a teacher

39:11 - Being a physical therapist

40:40 - How fitness has changed in past 5 years

47:07 - Nutrition coaching and holding people accountable

52:54 - How Lindsey got into nutrition

55:56 - What is self care, negativity around healthy lifestyle

1:11:01 - Closing

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