Joe P
joepigginphd.bsky.social
Joe P
@joepigginphd.bsky.social
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Thiago Matias (et al) offer a new foundation to base our understanding of human movement. The human urges to feel, to connect, to explore, and to transform are considered as fundamental starting points which can inform research, teaching and policy about PA.
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The Unifying Theory of Physical Activity
This article offers a governing, trans-disciplinary theory for understanding physical activity in humans. The Unifying Theory of Physical Activity involves three aspects. First, it frames physical ...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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From 11 years ago, we critiqued some of the ideas which informed the announcement of the global pandemic of PA.
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The global physical inactivity pandemic: an analysis of knowledge production
In July 2012, The Lancet announced a pandemic of physical inactivity and a global call to action to effect change. The worldwide pandemic is said to be claiming millions of lives every year. Assert...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Dominic Malcolm et al show how neoliberalism leads to healthism, which promotes exercise which diverge from health maximising behaviours, and how this extends differences in PA uptake, which embeds the health inequalities PAHP is explicitly claimed to address.
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The World Health Organization, physical activity and the contradictions of neoliberal health promotion
This article constitutes the first holistic exploration of how neoliberalism permeates and manifests in Physical Activity Health Promotion (PAHP). It synthesises a critical analysis of neoliberalis...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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@cassie-phoenix.bsky.social
and Sarah Bell "offer alternative insight into how people avail themselves to, and experience motion and stillness during mid and later life."
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Beyond “Move More”: Feeling the Rhythms of physical activity in mid and later-life
The last two decades have seen growing unease regarding the negative health consequences of increasing levels of physical inactivity, both in the UK a…
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March 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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@angelabeggan.bsky.social
encourages us to re-think intergenerational PA ... "we require new empirical experimentation that is prepared to rethink methodology and reimagine outcomes."
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From behaviour to birdsong: reorienting the object of physical activity intervention
Physical (in)activity is a seemingly intractable public health problem that has spawned decades of behavioural research and intervention. Globally, efforts to improve physical activity levels have ...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Alan Knuth et al ask if it is fair to disseminate “global recommendations” of PA to Brazil and Latin America, "using inappropriate models to the context and history of these places, people, and cultures?"
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March 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yep, there's been much optimism about "collaboration" and "partnerships" (which is hard to argue with). But we also need to consider "refusals", "resistance", and "rejection" of some interest groups.

And yes, high rises I think are an enemy.
December 5, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Great question. I believe yes.
Inadvertently, car companies (in urban areas.)
Politicians who serve corporate donors rather than their voting constituents.
December 5, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Hello. I acknowledge your message. And I appreciate it.
November 28, 2024 at 2:26 PM