Physical Activity Researcher
743 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHello and Welcome to Physical Activity Researcher Podcast!
Physical Activity Researcher Podcast is the source of the latest research findings on all things related to physical activity, exercise, and health. World-renowned scientists and experts as guests in an informal and relaxed interview style format. New episodes on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.
The podcast is for anyone who likes to learn scientific and evidence-based knowledge of physical activity, exercise, and health. Our listeners range from researchers to health and fitness professionals, and from inactive office workers to marathon runners.
Podcast has several series and hosts each concentrating on different aspects of physical activity:
Physical Activity Researcher Series
The latest research findings in exercise physiology, biomechanics, physical education, coaching sciences, sport psychology, epidemiology, and public health. These episodes are hosted by researcher and entrepreneur Dr Olli Tikkanen.
Meaningful Sport Series
Meaningful Sport is dedicated to the exploration of meaning and meaningful experiences in sport and physical activity. Many studies have revealed instrumental benefits of physical activity, but is there something more to it, and how does it contribute to meaningful lives? This series is led by Associate Professor Noora Ronkainen. The series provides inspiration for exploring the meaning and value in sport and physical activity for everyone.
Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series
Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series has health and fitness professionals as guests. How they see sedentary behaviour and physical activity in their work? What are the best practices to promote physical activity? This series is for you if you are a Personal Trainer, Physiotherapist, Medical Doctor, Health Coach, or anyone working as a health and fitness professional. This series is lead by physiotherapist MSc Liis Kukkonen.
Publishing schedule:
Tuesdays: Physical Activity Researcher Series
Friday: Meaningful Sport Series
Sundays: Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series.
+ Bonus episodes and republications of past highlight episodes
We hope you find value in the podcast!
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Episodes
The Dialogical Self in Christian MMA - Dr Teemu Pauha (Pt 2) - Meaningful Sport Series
September 10, 2021 09:03 - 27 minutes - 23.6 MBBeing 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 something that is inherently incompatible with the Christian faith? In this second part of our conve...
/Republication/ Which Accelerometer to Choose in Different Research Contexts? Dr David Dunstan
September 08, 2021 12:30 - 46 minutes - 41.9 MBHighlights of the podcast - this is republication of episode published earlier. --- In this episode, we have Professor David Dunstan from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne. His research focuses on the role of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in relation to chronic diseases. --- This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring Learn more about Fibion: https://fibion.com/research -...
Applying for Research Funding: What Works and Why? Dr Arto Pesola (Pt2)
September 07, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 34.7 MBDr 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 physical activity. Invited by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Arto was an expert me...
Applying for Research Funding: How to Combine Basic and Applied Research - Dr Arto Pesola (Pt1)
September 05, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 31.3 MBDr 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 physical activity. Invited by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Arto was an expert mem...
Movement Cultures: Sites of ‘Spiritualities of Life‘? - Dr Teemu Pauha (Pt 1) - Meaningful Sport Series
September 03, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 28.8 MBEspecially 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 characteristics of new 'spiritualities of life' that are formed outside of organised religion. With ...
/Republication/ How to Use the 3 Types of Reminder Strategies in Sedentary Behaviour Interventions? Dr Dori Rosenberg
September 01, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 79 MBHighlights 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: individual resources, characteristics, motivation, social norms and lives, and community environments....
Revealing Surprising Reasons that Prevent General Practitioner´s from Being Active During Work Days - Dr. Richard Mayne (Pt2) - Practitioner´s Viewpoint
August 31, 2021 08:59 - 28 minutes - 26.8 MBDr. 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 healthier lives. He can be followed on social media (twitter, instagram) via the handle: @themovingm...
How Sedentary are General Practitioners´ Working Days in the U.K? - Richard Mayne (Pt2) - Practitioner´s Viewpoint
August 31, 2021 08:59 - 28 minutes - 26.8 MBDr 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 healthier lives. He can be followed on social media (twitter, instagram) via the handle: @themovingme...
Surprising Reasons that Prevent General Practitioners from Being Active During Work Days - Dr Richard Mayne (Pt2) - Practitioner´s Viewpoint
August 31, 2021 08:59 - 28 minutes - 26.8 MBDr. 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 healthier lives. He can be followed on social media (twitter, instagram) via the handle: @themovingm...
Encouraging Inactive People to Exercise More Requires a Thoughtful and Considered Approach - Dr Richard Mayne (Pt1) - Practitioner´s Viewpoint
August 29, 2021 15:13 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBDr 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 healthier lives. He can be followed on social media (Twitter, Instagram) via the handle: @themovingme...
Encouraging Inactive People to Exercise More Requires a Thoughtful and Considered Approach - Richard Mayne (Pt1) - Practitioner´s Viewpoint
August 29, 2021 15:13 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBDr 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 healthier lives. He can be followed on social media (Twitter, Instagram) via the handle: @themovingme...
Flourishing and Languishing in Sport - Dr Kurtis Pankow (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series
August 27, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 40 MBA 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, we explore the three empirical studies that formed the dissertation. Key topics of the conversat...
How to become successful in social media as a health and fitness professional? Dr Tom Walters (Pt2) - Practitioner's Viewpoint
August 24, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 24.9 MBDr. 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 fellowship in advanced lower quarter functional biomechanics. Dr. Walters has worked in a number ...
How to Become Successful in Social Media as a Health and Fitness Professional? Dr Tom Walters (Pt2) - Practitioner's Viewpoint
August 24, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 24.9 MBIn 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 healthcare professional and we also find out which posts have generated positive or negative fe...
Exercises Prescribed by Physio: The Why Is as Important as How! Dr Tom Walters (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint
August 22, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes - 24.4 MBDr. 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 fellowship in advanced lower quarter functional biomechanics. Dr. Walters has worked in a number ...
Flourishing and Languishing in Sport - Dr Kurtis Pankow (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series
August 20, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 31.6 MBThere 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 what he has done in his PhD work. Specifically, keeping in mind the topic of this podcast, we ...
/Republication/ It‘s Complex - Why Naïve Suggestions Don‘t Work in Behaviour Change - Dr Stuart Biddle
August 17, 2021 11:09 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBHighlights 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. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring Learn more ...
/Republication/ It's Complex - Why Naïve Suggestions Don't Work in Behaviour Change? Dr Stuart Biddle
August 17, 2021 11:09 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBHighlights 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. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring Learn more ...
All Older Episodes Now Available on All Podcast Apps! - Quick Extempore Bonus Episode
August 15, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 8.38 MBQuick extempore bonus episode - latest new related to the podcast. Good news for listeners of our podcast! Close to 100 older episodes available now in all podcast apps. There are episodes with great guests, so check them out, if you haven't listened them already.
Women's Careers in Mountaineering - Prof. Emmanuelle Tulle (Pt 2) - Meaningful Sport Series
August 13, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 30.1 MBHistorically, mountaineering has been a masculine space where women have been marginalised if not completely excluded. Yet, like in many other physical cultures, women's participation has recently been increasing. What allowed women to develop careers in mountaineering? How do men and women draw on gender narratives to make meaning of their experiences on the mountains? And finally, does women’s presence in the mountaineering constitute a disruption of the masculine culture and are women-on...
Future Technology and Intelligence of Strength Training Equipment | Fascinating Facts of Neuromuscular Fatigue and its Recovery - Dr Heikki Peltonen (Pt2)
August 10, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 34.3 MBIn this episode we are talking with Dr Peltonen about the themes related to his PhD dissertation: Isometric Force-Time Parameters in Monitoring of Strength Training With Special Reference to Acute Responses to Different Loading Resistances Training monitoring has been a common trend in endurance sports and activities over the past several years through the use of heart rate monitors, pedometers, cycling monitors etc. Nevertheless, athletes and enthusiasts, even the same ones as in enduranc...
Unexpectedly Exercise Reduces Cancer-Related Fatigue | Empowerment of a Marathon Project - Dr Mary Kennedy (Pt2) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series
August 08, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBDr. 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 h...
Running to Run - Prof. Emmanuelle Tulle (Pt 1) - Meaningful Sport Series
August 06, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 31.1 MBAthletes often become acutely aware of ageing in ways that people who are not involved in sport do not. But how do athletes construct meaning in sport in later life and how do they maintain their bodily capital? Emmanuelle Tulle's fascinating research on Veteran/Masters runners helps us to answer these questions. We also discuss the gendered construction of running careers in later life and the problems associated with the increasingly medicalised understandings of physical activity and agei...
Physical Behavior and Its Association to Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes. Dr Annemarie Koster (Pt2)
August 03, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 19.2 MBAnnemarie 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 ...
Eating Disorders in Athletes: Physician´s Viewpoint and Insights. M.D. Dusty Narducci (Pt2) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series
August 01, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 39.4 MBMD Dusty 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 D...
Skateboarding in the Olympics: David Meets Goliath? Drs Brian Glenney & Paul O'Connor (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series
July 30, 2021 09:00 - 22 minutes - 22.8 MBThis is the second part of our conversation on skateboarding in the Olympic Games (see part 1 here). For the first time, skateboarding is included on the Olympic arenas this summer. What is going to happen? What kind of new Olympic narratives will be created and who will be the heroes and the zeroes? Can skateboarding maintain its subcultural identity or will it be subsumed under the broader Olympic narrative? In this episode - partly recorded from the beach - Drs Brian Glenney and Paul O'C...
Measurement of Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity Among Kids and Youths with Autism. Dr Patrick Jachyra
July 27, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 24.3 MBDr Patrick Jachyra is working as a post-doctoral fellow at Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in University of Toronto. His research explores, for example, physical activity participation among young people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Young people with ASD are less likely to be physically active compared to their peers, and increasingly become even less active during adolescence in both scholastic and community contexts. The co...
Exercise Is not Medicine if It Is not Implemented into Healthcare System - Dr. Mary Kennedy (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series
July 25, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBDr. 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 h...
Skateboarding in the Olympics: A Collision of Two Incompatible Physical Cultures? Drs Brian Glenney & Paul O'Connor (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series
July 23, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutes - 43.7 MBLifestyle 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?...
Physical Activity Recommendations for Pregnant Women: What Were the Biggest Challenges? - Gabriela Mena (Pt2)
July 20, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 38.3 MBGabriela 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, Physic...
Exercise Prescription Can Do More Harm Than Good, if Physicians... MD Dusty Narducci (Pt1)
July 18, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MBMD 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 Develop...
Growth Following Adversity: a Good Story to Tell? Dr Ross Wadey (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series
July 16, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MBMany 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 kno...
How Physical Behavior Affects Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes. Dr Annemarie Koster (Pt1)
July 13, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 20.8 MBAnnemarie 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 ...
How Physical Behavior Affects Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes. Annemarie Koster (Pt1)
July 13, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 20.8 MBAnnemarie 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 ...
Best Practices in Health and Activity Consulting - Dr. Amy Bantham (Pt2) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series
July 11, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes - 21.4 MBDr. 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, qualita...
Stories of Sports Injury - Dr Ross Wadey (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series
July 09, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBFor 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 occurre...
Increasing Infertility - What Role Physical Activity and BMI Are Playing? Gabriela Mena (Pt1)
July 06, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 37.9 MBGabriela 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, Physic...
Why are Physicians not Referring Patients to Fitness Clubs? - Dr. Amy Bantham and Liis Kukkonen (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series
July 04, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes - 21.8 MBDr. 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, qualitativ...
Developing a Practical Philosophy for Flourishing Through Sport - Laurence Halsted (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series
July 02, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis 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 l...
Athletes Should Quit More and Amateurs Should Suck It Up. Dr Josephine Perry (Part 2)
June 29, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBPerformance 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...
Athletes Should Quit More and Amateurs Should Suck It Up. Dr Josephine Perry (Pt 2)
June 29, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBPerformance 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...
Blaming Patients for not Doing Enough Is a Waste of Time! Talking About Behavior Change - Dr. Matti Peura (Pt2)
June 28, 2021 07:53 - 20 minutes - 20.5 MBPart 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 ...
Towards a more Compassionate World Through Sport: The True Athlete Project - Laurence Halsted (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series
June 25, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBLaurence 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 ...
How Can Children Feel Mastery in Physical Education? Dr Josephine Perry (Pt1)
June 22, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 30.2 MBPerformance 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...
How to Manage Depression in Healthcare? - Dr. Matti Peura (Pt1) – Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series
June 20, 2021 14:32 - 22 minutes - 23.1 MBDr. 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 ...
Nature-based Activities as an Intervention for Well-Being - Dr Niels Feddersen (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series
June 18, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 30.9 MBIt 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 o...
Importance of Exercise for Weight Loss: Recommendations from a Nutrition Coach? – Dr Kersten Kimura (Pt2) – Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 24 MBPart II Kersten Kimura is a certified macro nutrition coach, personal trainer and women’s wellness coach. She helps women all over the world to achieve their best body composition and optimal health through her WHOLEistic Macros coaching. Having been through a serious burnout herself, she emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition, adequate exercise, balanced hormones and healthy mindset. More info on Kersten: Website: https://urbanjane.co/ Podcast: Balanced Vibes Youtube: https://www...
The Best Accelerometer for Research in 2021 - How to Choose the Right Activity Tracker? Dr Olli Tikkanen
June 13, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBThis episode is an audio extract from Youtube video from Physical Activity Researcher Podcast Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/1X13fF4MD_c Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 5:30 Activinsights 11:30 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) Links: Learn more about Fibion Research: https://fibion.com/research/ Learn more about Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/ **...
Understanding Organisational Cultures in Elite Sport - Dr Niels Feddersen (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series
June 11, 2021 09:00 - 47 minutes - 42.3 MBUnderstanding 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...
The Most Common Mistakes People Make in Weight Loss? - Dr Kersten Kimura (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series
June 08, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBPart I Kersten Kimura is a certified macro nutrition coach, personal trainer and women’s wellness coach. She helps women all over the world to achieve their best body composition and optimal health through her WHOLEistic Macros coaching. Having been through a serious burnout herself, she emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition, adequate exercise, balanced hormones and healthy mindset. More info on Kersten: Website: https://urbanjane.co/ Podcast: Balanced Vibes Youtube: https://www....