Physical Activity Researcher

Exercise Is not Medicine if It Is not Implemented into Healthcare System - Dr. Mary Kennedy (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series

Dr. Mary Kennedy is a physical activity and nutrition specialist, researcher, author and coach.
Dr. Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Nutrition Research at Edith Cowan University. Her research focus is integrating exercise and nutrition into standard healthcare practice. In her doctoral research she has been studying the implementation barriers to integrating exercise as medicine in oncology.
She is also passionate about coaching people to run marathons.
She has served as a technical assistant for the scientific committee responsible for the creation of the 2008 National Physical Activity Guidelines. Additionally, she has served on the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) Exercise is Medicine Education Committee and is currently the Physical Activity Advisor for the American Institute of Cancer Research. In addition to her national level policy work, Mary is a physical activity and nutrition researcher and consultant.
 
The links to the ACSM exercise oncology program directory and the current exercise guidelines are below:
Directory: https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/cancer_exercise.php
Guidelines: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2019/11000/Exercise_Guidelines_for_Cancer_Survivors_.23.aspx
 
 
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Skateboarding in the Olympics: A Collision of Two Incompatible Physical Cultures? Drs Brian Glenney & Paul O'Connor (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Lifestyle sports are increasingly included in the Olympic Games. For the first time, skateboarding is included on the Olympic arenas this summer. For some people, this is a natural progression, whereas for others, this represents a collision of two incompatible cultures of sport (if skateboarding can be called such).
What happens, when Olympics (as corporate, nationalistic, spectator-based and points-based) and skateboarding (as skater-owned, globalist, cooperative, and style-centred) meet? Who will be the heroes and the zeroes? 
In this fun episode - partly recorded from the beach - Drs Brian Glenney and Paul O'Connor take us on a journey to understand the meanings and values associated with skateboarding, the tensions associated with the inclusion in the Olympics, and ways that skateboarding is associated with religion and questions about a meaningful life.  
Dr Brian Glenney is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Norwich University and Dr Paul O’Connor is lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. Much of our conversation draws on their recent article "When Myths Collide: Skateboarding and Olympics Narratives".
Additional resources for further inspiration that were mentioned in the conversation include: 
Example of pure fun skateboarding:
Worble and Cobra Man’s “Worble III” Video
https://youtu.be/kWhyPZgiXI8
 
Zion Wright from team USA making the case for skateboarding in the streets (cued to spot 47:50)
GODSPEED by Davonte Jolly
https://youtu.be/ZYAzo5OdqHM?t=2870
 
Professional Skateboarder and Trans activist Leo Baker's new Mercedes advert
(of additional interest is that Leo Baker is also a playable character in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater videogame)
Leo Baker Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQq60MADh1y/
 
... And you can jump directly to Part 2 here!

Physical Activity Recommendations for Pregnant Women: What Were the Biggest Challenges? - Gabriela Mena (Pt2)

Gabriela is a Physician from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador with an interest in public health and health promotion. She has worked in the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador in rural communities, focusing on health promotion and primary prevention.
This work experience sparked her interest in public health and she later pursued a Master of Public Health at UQ in 2015. She is currently doing her PhD studies at UQ within the Centre for Research on Exercise, Physical Activity and Health (CRExPAH) at HMNS.
Her current research is examining the effects of physical activity on indicators of reproductive health in young adult women. She has a special interest in how physical activity can affect the reproductive system in young adult women who are trying to conceive. She is also interested in examining the physiological and biochemical effects of different doses of exercise in these women.
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Exercise Prescription Can Do More Harm Than Good, if Physicians... MD Dusty Narducci (Pt1)

MD Narducci is a graduate of The Burnett School of Biomechanical Sciences where she received her Bachelors in Molecular and Microbiology from the University of Central Florida.
She obtained her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean and Family Medicine Residency at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. She completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at The Mayo Clinic and has a Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQ) in Sports Medicine as well as a Faculty Development Fellowship at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
She is completing her Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) degree through the IAEDP. MD Narducci serves as Team Physician for the Department of Athletics at the University of South Florida as well as Head Team Physician for Saint Leo's University.
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Growth Following Adversity: a Good Story to Tell? Dr Ross Wadey (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series

Many athletes experience adversity at some point in their sporting lives. Although adversity - such as a sports injury or being de-selected - is often thought to be a negative experience, sport psychology researchers have increasingly demonstrated that adverse experiences can also have some positive outcomes for athletes, such as personal growth and finding new meaning in sport or life. But does this seemingly attractive storyline also have a negative or detrimental side to it? How do we know whether athletes simply tell these stories because they are expected to do so, and does it even matter? These and other fascinating questions are explored in this episode with Dr Ross Wadey, who has had a key contribution to understanding the dilemmas associated with this cultural narrative.   
Ross Wadey is an Associate Professor in Sport Psychology at St Mary’s University. He has conducted extensive research on sports injuries (which was the focus of Part 1 of our conversation) and growth following adversity.
Ross is the editor of Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations  and co-editor (together with Melissa Day and Karen Howells) of Growth Following Adversity in Sport: A Mechanism to Positive Change.
You can find out more about Ross and his work here and follow him on Twitter @rosswadey

How Physical Behavior Affects Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes. Dr Annemarie Koster (Pt1)

Annemarie Koster is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine at Maastricht University.
After receiving her PhD degree in 2005, she obtained an American fellowship at National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, MD, USA. Within the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry with Dr. Tamara B. Harris, she continued her research in the field of aging.
From 2006 until 2011, Dr. Koster worked at NIA and her research focused on causes and consequences of obesity, changes in body composition, and physical (in)activity in old age.
In 2011, she returned to Maastricht University and where she is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine. Additionally, she is a member of the Management Team of The Maastricht Study (http://www.demaastrichtstudie.nl/), the largest observational study worldwide on type 2 diabetes. Her current research focuses on objectively measured physical activity and is aimed at understanding the health consequences of physical inactivity and obesity. Moreover, Dr Koster and her group are particularly interested in the health effects of sedentary behaviour.
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Best Practices in Health and Activity Consulting - Dr. Amy Bantham (Pt2) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series

Dr. Amy Bantham has 20 years of experience working in consulting, health & fitness, and healthcare.  She is the CEO and Founder of Move to Live More℠, a research and consulting firm addressing physical inactivity, obesity, chronic disease, and social determinants of health through cross-sector collaboration and innovation. 
With a mission to help people live healthier, longer, more active lives, Move to Live More℠ helps its clients with program design, implementation and evaluation, qualitative and quantitative research, case studies and best practices, strategic planning, coalition building, and translating research into policy.
Amy holds a Doctor of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with concentrations in Health Communication and Obesity Epidemiology & Prevention.  Her doctoral research focused on physician exercise prescriptions/referrals and patient exercise behavior change. She is a certified group exercise instructor, personal trainer, and health & wellness coach. She also holds a Master of Science from Northeastern University, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.
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Stories of Sports Injury - Dr Ross Wadey (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

For some athletes, it is the disjunctures in their sporting lives such as a sports injury that trigger deeper questions about meaning. But why are some athletes more vulnerable to a crisis when they experience a sporting injury, and how can sport psychology practitioners expand their understanding of the impact of injuries not only on athletes, but people around them?
In sport psychology, many efforts have been made to understand psychological factors and processes related to injury occurrence and experiences. For Dr Ross Wadey, a significant limitation of this work is that it has been largely been acontextual and focused on what goes on in the athlete's head. Therefore, he has advocated for a shift towards a more cultural and relational discourse and looking into the stories of athletes to understand how they make meaning of these experiences with the cultural narrative resources that are available to them. 
Ross Wadey is an Associate Professor in Sport Psychology at St Mary’s University. He has conducted extensive research on sports injuries and growth following adversity, which forms the focus of the second part of our conversation.
Ross is the editor of the recently published book Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations, which informs our conversations today.
We also discuss an exciting new article led by Ross's PhD student Ciera Everard titled Storying sports injury experiences of elite track athletes: A narrative analysis. 
You can find out more about Ross and his work here and follow him on Twitter @rosswadey

Increasing Infertility - What Role Physical Activity and BMI Are Playing? Gabriela Mena (Pt1)

Gabriela is a Physician from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador with an interest in public health and health promotion. She has worked in the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador in rural communities, focusing on health promotion and primary prevention.
This work experience sparked her interest in public health and she later pursued a Master of Public Health at UQ in 2015. She is currently doing her PhD studies at UQ within the Centre for Research on Exercise, Physical Activity and Health (CRExPAH) at HMNS.
Her current research is examining the effects of physical activity on indicators of reproductive health in young adult women. She has a special interest in how physical activity can affect the reproductive system in young adult women who are trying to conceive. She is also interested in examining the physiological and biochemical effects of different doses of exercise in these women.
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Why are Physicians not Referring Patients to Fitness Clubs? - Dr. Amy Bantham and Liis Kukkonen (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series

Dr. Amy Bantham has 20 years of experience working in consulting, health & fitness, and healthcare.  She is the CEO/Founder of Move to Live More℠, a research and consulting firm addressing physical inactivity, obesity, chronic disease, and social determinants of health through cross-sector collaboration and innovation. 
With a mission to help people live healthier, longer, more active lives, Move to Live More℠ helps its clients with program design, implementation and evaluation, qualitative and quantitative research, case studies and best practices, strategic planning, coalition building, and translating research into policy.
Amy holds a Doctor of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with concentrations in Health Communication and Obesity Epidemiology & Prevention.  Her doctoral research focused on physician exercise prescriptions/referrals and patient exercise behavior change. She is a certified group exercise instructor, personal trainer, and health & wellness coach. She also holds a Master of Science from Northeastern University, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.
 
Dr. Amy Bantham can be reached:
Podcast
https://www.movetolivemore.com/podcast
Blog
https://www.movetolivemore.com/blog
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/amybantham
Instagram 
@MovetoLiveMore
Twitter 
@MovetoLiveMore @AmyBantham
Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/MovetoLiveMore
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Developing a Practical Philosophy for Flourishing Through Sport - Laurence Halsted (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series

This is the second part of our conversation with Laurence Halsted, a two-time Olympian, Performance director at the Danish Fencing Federation, and a member of the True Athlete Project (TAP) team. In the first part, we heard about Laurence's career and the work that is being done in TAP towards a more compassionate world through sport.
Today, we continue exploring the problematic face of contemporary elite sport and why there is a need for rethinking the value and meaning of sport in human life. The conversation draws on Laurence's new book Becoming a True Athlete: A practical philosophy for flourishing through sport (available for pre-order here). We discuss the philosophical ideas underpinning the book as well as the practical ways that individuals and communities can work towards more sustainable and meaningful culture around (elite) sport. 
You can find more information about the True Athlete Project here.
If you got interested in the True Athlete Project and Laurence's work, you can get in touch laurence@thetrueathleteproject.org.

Athletes Should Quit More and Amateurs Should Suck It Up. Dr Josephine Perry (Pt 2)

Performance in Mind is run by Dr Josephine Perry. She is a chartered psychologist working with those in sport and on the stage and in business to help them overcome their barriers to success so their can achieve their goals.
Josephine has a background in communications and behaviour change having worked for many years in journalism, marketing, public relations and crisis communications across private corporations and government. She has a MSc in Communications, a MSc in Psychology and a MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology. She also has a PhD in Political Communications.
She is a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a member of the Association of Applied Sports Psychologists (AASP). She is registered with the Health Care Professions Council. She writes features for sports magazines and websites and is regularly quoted in the media on how athletes and other performers can use applied sports psychology to enhance their performance.
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Blaming Patients for not Doing Enough Is a Waste of Time! Talking About Behavior Change - Dr. Matti Peura (Pt2)

Part II
Dr. Peura is a medical doctor from Helsinki, Finland. He is interested in AI in Healthcare and he is an occupational health physician. He is also managing the FinnGen research project and is an author of a book about overcoming depression.
Dr. Peura´s passion to help and coach people through depression started from his own experience. He was a plastic surgeon, started being afraid of doing surgery and suffered from depression.
In this second episode we are going to talk about how to communicate with patients to help them change their behavior patterns. We also talk about obesity and how to use physical activity measuring for better consulting in healthcare. 
You can follow Matti from:
Twitter https://twitter.com/thedrpeura
Instagram @thedrpeura
Dr. Peura´s blog can be found here: www.drpeura.fi.
 
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Towards a more Compassionate World Through Sport: The True Athlete Project - Laurence Halsted (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Laurence Halsted is a two-time Olympian, Performance director at the Danish Fencing Federation, and a member of the True Athlete Project (TAP) team. In today's episode, we hear about his career in sport and how his journey led him to working in TAP which is a project dedicated to working towards a more compassionate world through sport. As TAP website states,
“Sport can provide life changing moments of joy, freedom and meaning. But too often sport fails to live up to its potential, causing harm, and perpetuating injustice.”
People working at the True Athlete project are not satisfied with the status quo and are working in towards making a positive difference. We explore the mentoring programme and how the message of TAP has been received in the world of elite sport.
 
Here are useful links to find out more:
The True Athlete Project website
Laurence's article in The Guardian
Laurence's book Becoming a True Athlete: A practical philosophy for flourishing through sport (which is the focus of the second part of our conversation) is available for pre-order here.
And if you got interested in the True Athlete Project and Laurence's work, you can get in touch laurence@thetrueathleteproject.org.

How Can Children Feel Mastery in Physical Education? Dr Josephine Perry (Pt1)

Performance in Mind is run by Dr Josephine Perry. She is a chartered psychologist working with those in sport and on the stage and in business to help them overcome their barriers to success so their can achieve their goals.
Josephine has a background in communications and behaviour change having worked for many years in journalism, marketing, public relations and crisis communications across private corporations and government. She has a MSc in Communications, a MSc in Psychology and a MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology. She also has a PhD in Political Communications.
She is a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a member of the Association of Applied Sports Psychologists (AASP). She is registered with the Health Care Professions Council. She writes features for sports magazines and websites and is regularly quoted in the media on how athletes and other performers can use applied sports psychology to enhance their performance.
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How to Manage Depression in Healthcare? - Dr. Matti Peura (Pt1) – Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series

Dr. Peura is a medical doctor from Helsinki, Finland. He is interested in AI in Healthcare and he is an occupational health physician. He is also managing the FinnGen research project and is an author of a book about overcoming depression.
Dr. Peura´s passion to help and coach people through depression started from his own experience. He was a plastic surgeon, started being afraid of doing surgery and suffered from depression. In this first episode we are going to talk about how he managed the situation and how to deal with depression in your life.
You can follow Matti from:
Twitter https://twitter.com/thedrpeura
Instagram @thedrpeura
His blog can be found from here: www.drpeura.fi.
 
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Nature-based Activities as an Intervention for Well-Being - Dr Niels Feddersen (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series

It is somewhat paradoxical that the Nordic countries often rank on the top of world happiness surveys, but at the same time many people experience depression and other forms of mental ill-being. Today, we discuss the role that nature-based activities can have for our well-being and discuss a new study that examines a potential of these activities as a lifestyle intervention for well-being and meaning. 
Dr Niels Feddersen holds a Postdoctoral researcher position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is current conduction a study exploring nature-based recreational activities (paddle boarding and surfing) as a lifestyle intervention and whether and how these activities could have a positive contribution to sense of connectedness to nature, well-being and meaning in sport. His other research focuses on organisational cultures in elite sport (which was the focus of the first part of this conversation). 
You can find more information about the "Fri på Vandet" project on ResearchGate. 
And remember to follow Niels on Twitter @niels_NTNU!

Importance of Exercise for Weight Loss: Recommendations from a Nutrition Coach? – Dr Kersten Kimura (Pt2) – Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series

Part II
Kersten Kimura is a certified macro nutrition coach, personal trainer and women’swellness coach. She helps women all over the world to achieve their best bodycomposition and optimal health through her WHOLEistic Macros coaching. Havingbeen through a serious burnout herself, she emphasizes the importance of propernutrition, adequate exercise, balanced hormones and healthy mindset.
More info on Kersten:
Website: https://urbanjane.co/
Podcast: Balanced Vibes 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXUL86gzaJKANEC2ZrB9CzQ
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/kerstenkimura/
 
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The Best Accelerometer for Research in 2021 - How to Choose the Right Activity Tracker? Dr Olli Tikkanen

This episode is an audio extract from Youtube video from Physical Activity Researcher Podcast Youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/1X13fF4MD_c
Timestamps:0:00 Introduction5:30 Activinsights11:30 Actigraph 25:20 PAL Technologies (ActivPAL)34:45 Axivity (Axivity AX3, Axivity AX6)46:55 Fibion Inc. (Fibion Research)1:04:50 Fibion Inc. (Fibion SENS Motion)
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Video description:
This video goes through different accelerometer and activity tracking options for researchers. If you are a researcher who needs to track physical activity and/or sedentary behaviour this video should be valuable for you. We are going to look at different devices from many different manufacturers and their pros and cons. 
And it is not like one device would be the optimal device for all projects. Every project is different and there are many factors that determine what kind of device would be the best fit for your purposes. These factors include for example, who are your participants? Are they small kids whose wrist might be too small for big bulky devices? Are they elderly who might not be accustomed to use smart phone or even email?
Do you need to provide participants feedback only after the intervention or already during the intervention? So, if you are doing projects which aim to behaviour change you possibly need to be able to give feedback right after the measurements. There are actually big differences related to this between different devices and this is something you might not remember to consider when focusing too much attention to specifications of the devices. 
One important factor is also, whether physical activity is main outcome variable in your study, or whether you just, for example, need to exclude that changes in physical activity did not influence your results. In the latter case, you might just want to have a device that just makes data collection and analysis as easy as possible.
Do you need also accurate results related to sitting and sedentary behaviour? In that case, you want to consider a thigh-worn device as it is basically the only wearing position that can do posture allocation accurately.
In general, wearing location is of crucial importance for any project. In my opinion, it comes down to compliance and accuracy.
Many studies are using wrist-worn devices as people have been used to wearing watches, and a watch-like activity tracker is really easy to wrap around the wrist. So, it is easy, and compliance generally good. 
Then there are thigh-worn devices. Influential ProPass consortium is recommending thigh as a preferred location for accelerometers as it provides more accurate results than other wearing positions. This is straightforward as we are moving with our legs and not with our arms and in sitting vs standing thigh is changing its angle, which we can detect with a thigh-worn device.
***Glad to hear your opinions!What devices you are using in your research projects? What have been the pros and cons with those devices?What new features would you like to see in accelerometers/activity trackers?

Understanding Organisational Cultures in Elite Sport - Dr Niels Feddersen (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Understanding organisational cultures and the processes of culture change in elite sport is an increasingly visible field of study. If we think of culture as being much about meanings that people negotiate in their communities of practice, how should we think of culture change and dysfunctional or even 'destructive' cultures in the world of elite sport?
This exciting episode with Dr Niels Feddersen explores these questions and draws on his extensive fieldwork in one elite sport organisation that went through turbulent times of conflict as a result of a culture change process that insiders felt as threatening their sense of meaning in sport-work.
Dr Niels Feddersen holds a postdoctoral researcher position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He completed his PhD at Liverpool John Moores University with his thesis focused on culture change in an elite sport organisation. Currently, he is also working on a project that explores nature-based exercise activities as a lifestyle intervention for people with stress, anxiety, and depression. This will be the focus of the second part of our conversation.
Research that is the focus of today's conversation includes: 
The emergence and perpetuation of a destructive culture in an elite sport in the United Kingdom
A Longitudinal Study of Power Relations in a British Olympic Sport Organization
You can follow Niels on Twitter @niels_NTNU
 

The Most Common Mistakes People Make in Weight Loss? - Dr Kersten Kimura (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series

Part I
Kersten Kimura is a certified macro nutrition coach, personal trainer and women’swellness coach. She helps women all over the world to achieve their best bodycomposition and optimal health through her WHOLEistic Macros coaching. Havingbeen through a serious burnout herself, she emphasizes the importance of propernutrition, adequate exercise, balanced hormones and healthy mindset.
More info on Kersten:
Website: https://urbanjane.co/
Podcast: Balanced Vibes 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXUL86gzaJKANEC2ZrB9CzQ
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/kerstenkimura/