In August, a study in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society found that wearing a mask during exercise does not negatively impact the cardiorespiratory response.
When we exercise with a mask on, sensory perception gets the better of us. Our faces get a little hotter than usual, and it can feel like there’s more resistance in the way of breathing. But wearing a mask, these findings illustrate, does not affect arterial oxygen levels, or compromise the lungs.
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Nov. 17, 2020 – New paper out by PhD student Jackie Lee and Dr. Guy Faulkner in partnership with NINET Lab. Read Acceptability of exercise as an adjunct to rTMS for treatment-resistant depression: A patient-oriented collaboration study here!
Carly Priebe
Kelly Wunderlich
Guy Faulkner
Walk or Run to Quit was a national program targeting smoking cessation through group-based running clinics. Increasing physical activity may facilitate smoking cessation as well as lead to additional health benefits beyond cessation. The aim is to evaluate the impact of walking or running to quit smoking over 3 years.
Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Carly Priebe, Kelly Wunderlich and Guy Faulkner on the publication of their paper in Cambridge Core.
Find the paper here.
Brooks McNiven is a teacher in the West Vancouver School District where he currently serves as the head coach of the West Vancouver Baseball Academy. He has coached at high-performance high school tournaments hosted by Baseball Canada and the Toronto Blue Jays. He is also the owner and Director of Inside Performance, an indoor baseball training centre; and has participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a member of the Canadian Men’s Baseball team. He hopes to have the opportunity to coach with the Junior National team in the coming years.
While seeking a master’s program where he could focus his studies on sports performance and athletic development, Brooks states “this was the perfect fit for me with my sporting background and passion for high performance sports. Now that I have completed the program it has certainly furthered my teaching career. I feel that the master’s program has pushed me to be more innovative and to work through roadblocks in an attempt to develop best practice techniques in the sport. The Master’s program totally shifted my coaching away from some of the traditional methods to an evidence-based approach.”
With regard to the online experience Brook states that, “it made completing a master’s program while working a fulltime job and coaching very manageable.” His final research project focused on investigating “workload management with adolescent baseball players” to understand the “significant increase in injuries to pitchers at all levels of baseball.”
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Rosalin Miles, a post-doctoral researcher in Indigenous Studies in Kinesiology, has been selected to sit on the UBC Speaker Diversity Core Committee.
Two of the key goals of UBC’s Inclusion Action Plan are Systems Change and Accountability. In order to actively address these goals, the Provost’s office is developing guidelines and best practices for action.
The UBC Speaker Diversity Core Committee will develop a UBC-wide set of guidelines in order to increase diversity in conference panellists and speakers. These guidelines will in no way infringe upon the academic freedom of those organizing the conferences. There will be several meetings to discuss the focus and guidelines with a draft ready for distribution and comments by December 15, 2020.
The Indigenous Studies in Kinesiology research team presented a virtual symposium entitled “Indigenous Health and Wellness through Empowerment” (Lai, Miles, Kaufman, & Hanna, 2020) in the International Society for Physical Activity and Health Virtual Congress on Oct 29, 2020. This symposium shared evidence-based methodologies, findings, and future implications in cultural safety research and education to enhance Indigenous health and wellness.
Over the past four years, the research team used a community-based and designed, and Indigenous-led approach to identify health and wellness aspirations unique to Indigenous communities in BC. These initiatives include conducting environmental scans and facilitating knowledge sharing circles at the National Indigenous Physical Activity and Wellness Conferences, which were hosted by the research team in collaboration with Indigenous community members. These collaborations led to the co-creation, implementation, and evaluation of a strengths-based healthy lifestyle intervention with Lytton First Nation and an Indigenous curriculum within the School of Kinesiology. This work demonstrates the cultural relevance of moving away from one-size-fits-all paradigms when working with Indigenous communities, and how community-based, co-created, and Indigenous-led approaches in research and education are culturally safe strategies to empower Indigenous health and wellness.
Body Works is Back!
We are happy to announce that based on a successful 6-week pilot that was run this past summer, BodyWorks is back up and running with opportunities for both community engagement and student learning and development.
BodyWorks launches its new online classes on November 9th through December 17th!
CLASSES OFFERED: Changing Aging, Fit Over 50 (no spin portion), Community Fit, and Modified Changing Aging (NEW).
Classes will be delivered via ZOOM platform.
For more information about classes, visit the Fitness Classes Info page.