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  • Exercise prescription,  Functional exercise,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity,  Strength & conditioning

    From my inbox

    August 16, 2018/

    Turns out I’m a bit of a research magpie. I pick up shiny looking articles and store them away – just in case! My nest was getting a little crowded, so I spent most of last week tidying up my…

  • Exercise prescription,  Fitness,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity,  Professional development

    Do As I Say

    July 4, 2018/

    So much information Could I have been that arrogant, that stupid? Turns out yes I could – in spades! In fairness, I’d been raised on a steady educational diet where knowledge was king; knowledge was power. It never occurred to…

  • Bone health,  Exercise prescription,  Fitness,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity

    Bone Health & Exercise

    June 29, 2018/

    I recently downloaded a PDF  ‘Osteoporosis and You’ from the Osteoporosis New Zealand website. Fifteen pages of content, with barely half a page of non-specific exercise information, yet they somehow managed 2 and a half pages of dietary guidance for…

  • Critical thinking,  Exercise prescription,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity

    1 in 10

    June 1, 2018/

    When UB40 sang ‘I am the one in ten’, the song was one of despair – despair at the then unemployment rate in their part of the UK. I happened to get really agitated a few years back over another…

  • Fitness,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity

    Exercise interruptus

    May 11, 2018/

    I was doing some prep for a lecture last year. The topic, osteoporosis and exercise. I came across a curious suggestion in a paper by Srinivasan et al (2002). They tried some low-intensity loading of animal bone, basically by applying…

  • Critical thinking,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity

    Health harshening the exercise buzz?

    May 9, 2018/

    With the emergence of the ‘Exercise is Medicine’ (EIM) movement, biomedical models of health have been applied to exercise and physical activity, with seemingly limited success (Halall et al, 2012). The value and benefits of physical activity, exercise, sport and…

  • Critical thinking,  Fitness,  Fitness testing & measurement,  Physical activity,  Strength & conditioning

    The devil’s in the detail

    April 5, 2018/

    Sometimes I wonder about the supposed advances in sciences, particularly the rapid emergence of technologies, and whether they are often more problematic than helpful. We live in a world where we prefer to see things as causes and effects. Mostly…

  • Catastrophising,  Health & wellbeing,  Physical activity

    Scared off the couch.

    February 11, 2018/

    One of the things that really bothers me about the Physical Activity and Health movement has been their tendency to catastrophise inactivity. ‘Catastrophising’ is a term that seems to have come from psychotherapy, where it was used to describe a…

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