Physical Activity Researcher

Jason is a Mayo Clinic certified wellness coach; he has a Master´s degree in exercise physiology and a certification in sports nutrition and strength and conditioning. How to coach someone who wants to improve their biometrics like blood-sugar levels, blood pressure, and blood-cholesterol levels and on top of that improve their overall well-being via lifestyle improvements. Within that topic we ar...

This is the second part of our conversation on storytelling in physical education with Jim Harte. In the past decade, Jim has worked with an innovative approach to physical education which is about inviting young people into a story and living that story throughout the school year. The story is lived through in songs (musical learning) and a performance that finishes the school year. In this secon...

Amanda Daley is a Professor of Behavioural Medicine and an NIHR Research Professor in Public Health.  Amanda is also the Director of the  Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB) .  Her work is focused on investigating the effects of lifestyle interventions on health outcomes.  Amanda has a particular interest in testing lifestyle interventions that can be delivered by health care profe...

Petter Erik Nyvoll, co-founder of AweSM sales and marketing, is the sales expert who helps coaches, consultants and experts reach millions of people, and sell out their programs and courses. For the past 30 years, he has sold everything from scratchcards to investment opportunities, and everything in between. B2B, B2C, over the counter, through network marketing and over the phone and Zoom calls. ...

What if physical education was about inviting young people into a story and living that story through the school year? This is an approach that coach and teacher Jim Harte developed in his long career as a PE teacher. The story is lived through in songs (musical learning) and a performance that finishes the school year. In this episode, Jim Harte reflects on his long career in teaching and coachin...

Dr Foster has gone from being a PE teacher in a secondary school to one of the world's leading experts in the field, regularly advising the Government on how best to get the UK moving and in turn improve public health. Since joining the University of Bristol in 2017, his main research focus has been on leading scientific reviews to update the current UK national physical activity guidelines, worki...

Petter Erik Nyvoll, co-founder of AweSM sales and marketing, is the sales expert who helps coaches, consultants and experts reach millions of people, and sell out their programs and courses. For the past 30 years, he has sold everything from scratchcards to investment opportunities, and everything in between. B2B, B2C, over the counter, through network marketing and over the phone and Zoom calls. ...

This is the second part of our conversation with Tim Jones on learning and development in football Academies.  It is well-established that sport participation involves many other forms of learning beyond sports skills. But are these learning experiences exclusively 'positive'? Are they mainly 'caught' or 'taught'? Should coaches intentionally introduce 'trouble' in athletes' pathways to foster lea...

Dr Foster has gone from being a PE teacher in a secondary school to one of the world's leading experts in the field, regularly advising the Government on how best to get the UK moving and in turn improve public health. Since joining the University of Bristol in 2017, his main research focus has been on leading scientific reviews to update the current UK national physical activity guidelines, worki...

Amanda Daley is a Professor of Behavioural Medicine and an NIHR Research Professor in Public Health.  Amanda is also the Director of the  Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB) .  Her work is focused on investigating the effects of lifestyle interventions on health outcomes.   Amanda has a particular interest in testing lifestyle interventions that can be delivered by health care prof...

Academy football in the UK is a controversial context that many researchers have described as hierarchical, short-termist and embodying hegemonic notions of masculinity. Previously in this podcast, some conversations have been held on talented athletes’ experiences in these contexts and issues of identity foreclosure and progressive alienation from the craft.  But can we also find something more p...

Dr Brendon Stubbs is a clinical-academic physiotherapist with an interest in physical activity & mental health, the mind-body interface, healthy ageing and meta-research. He has a BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy, MSc in Neurological Rehabilitation & PhD in Pain Medicine & Rehabilitation.    He works locally and (inter)nationally with a fantastic group of collaborators with whom he has published over 5...

Dr Brendon Stubbs is a clinical-academic physiotherapist with an interest in physical activity & mental health, the mind-body interface, healthy ageing and meta-research. He has a BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy, MSc in Neurological Rehabilitation & PhD in Pain Medicine & Rehabilitation.    He works locally and (inter)nationally with a fantastic group of collaborators with whom he has published over 5...

Being a professional mixed martial arts practitioner and a devout Christian presents a potential contradiction that seems to require 'identity work' to bring these two identities into some sort of harmony. What have the researchers, church leaders and martial artists themselves said about this dilemma? Is MMA just like football or any other sport and a separate life sphere from religion, or someth...

Dr Arto Pesola has a PhD degree in Exercise Physiology from the Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Jyväskylä. His field of science is the causality of reduced muscle inactivity time on health outcomes in an RCT setting. Arto has been a highly visible expert in Finnish national TV and radio channels giving expert opinions on health hazards of sedentariness and on promotion of everyday physica...

Dr Arto Pesola has a PhD degree in Exercise Physiology from the Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Jyväskylä. His field of science is the causality of reduced muscle inactivity time on health outcomes in an RCT setting. Arto has been a highly visible expert in Finnish national TV and radio channels giving expert opinions on health hazards of sedentariness and on promotion of everyday physica...

Especially in Europe, a growing number of people choose not to be affiliated with organised religion. But does it mean that they reject everything religious? And does sport have something to offer for spiritual life, at least for some? In this episode, Dr Teemu Pauha helps us to explore the fuzzy lines between contemporary 'religious', 'spiritual' and 'atheist' identities and some of the key chara...

Highlights of the podcast - this is republication of episode published earlier. --- Dori Rosenberg, PhD, MPH, has conducted extensive research into measuring and intervening on physical activity and sedentary time. Her research incorporates a multi-level and patient-centered perspective to help ensure individuals can be more successful in making healthy lifestyle choices by understanding: individu...

Dr. Richard Mayne, also known as “The Moving Medic” is a general practitioner and an academic clinical fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He previously completed an MSc in sport and exercise medicine and now undertakes research in sedentary behaviour and physical activity. He is passionate about helping people to sit less and move more in order to live longer, happier and heal...

Dr Richard Mayne, also known as “The Moving Medic” is a general practitioner and an academic clinical fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He previously completed an MSc in sport and exercise medicine and now undertakes research in sedentary behaviour and physical activity. He is passionate about helping people to sit less and move more in order to live longer, happier and healt...

A complete mental health is not merely about the absence of mental illness. Yet, surprisingly few studies in a sport context have focused on understanding what contributes to positive mental health and high levels of well-being. Drawing on the Mental Health Continuum model (Keyes, 2002), Dr Kurtis Pankow recently completed a PhD dissertation that sought answers to this question. In this podcast, w...

In this episode we talk about social media. Dr. Tom Walters is running one of the world´s largest social media accounts dedicated to physiotherapy and rehabilitation called @rehabscience on Instagram. His account has around 740 000 followers. So in this episode we talk about how to create content that people will respond to on social media? What is the benefit of having a social media account as a...

Dr. Tom Walters is a board-certified orthopedic physical therapist who specializes in pain education, therapeutic exercise, and manual therapy. He completed a bachelor of science in exercise science at Montana State University and a doctorate in physical therapy at Chapman University. Following his formal PT training, Dr. Walters completed a residency in orthopedic manual physical therapy and a fe...

 There have been many stories in the media about athletes’ struggles during and after their careers, and sport psychology scholars have dedicated extensive efforts to understand athlete mental health in the past few years. Yet, rather than only focusing on mental ill-health, Dr Kurtis Pankow has argued that we also need to focus on understanding what contributes to well-being in sport. And this is...

Highlights of the podcast - this is republication of episode published on 9th of August 2019. --- Professor of Physical Activity & Health Dr Stuart Biddle from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His main research interest are in health effects, psychology and behaviour change related to sedentary behaviour and physical activity. --- This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. |...