Massage has been used as a therapeutic modality for centuries in various capacities, including a long tradition in sport preparation and recovery. However, little research either supports or refutes the use of massage in a sporting context. 

There is a paucity of scientific evidence of the physiological effects of commonly used massage techniques, and to date, evidence as to the efficacy of massage in increasing muscular force is lacking. This study will examine the use of massage as an ergogenic aid and as an adjunctive therapy to dynamic warm up for increased muscular force production.

The typical day for the student will include catching a bus at 7:20 in the morning, teaching four blocks of physical or health education, arriving home by 5:20, having a few moments to them selves before attending a meeting and lesson planning at 8:00 pm. It is a job – and for many their first full time job in education! For many, this will be some of their first exposure to in classroom teaching in a public school system… an exciting opportunity that also brings with it some healthy nervous tension.

Through the continued support of the University of the Fraser Valley, and the Ministry of Education in Antigua, we are able to offer an extraordinary experience that will help shape student teachers for years to come. Share their experience and feel their passion as you read their stories – come back often, and enjoy the blog linked below.

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Coming soon is a review of  emergency warning lights that describes the response that we can expect to different combinations of strobe light color and frequency.

Anderson and Vogel published a paper on sourcing credible health and fitness information on the internet. This topic has been presented by Greg Anderson at CanFitPro in the past, providing fitness practitioners useful information on how to gather, analyse, and use information they find on the internet.

Guido Belli won the young investigator gold medal for the poster he presented representing the results from a training study conducted by Fabio Delugi (Balogna University, Italy) and Greg Anderson at the University of the Fraser Valley. The poster was presented  in Greece in September, 2009 by Guido Belli (Balogna University, Italy) who recently worked with Dr. Anderson in Canada for a period of six months as a visiting academic.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of instability training in the recruitment of core stabilizing muscles during dynamic multijoint movement. Surface electromyography (EMG) was measured from 6 muscles (latissimus dorsi, rectus abdominus, internal obliques, erector spinae, and soleus) while subjects performed a 9.1-kg bench press on stable and unstable surfaces. There were 4 exercises in total: (a) stable surfaces for shoulders and feet, (b) upper-body instability, (c) lower-body instability, and (d) dual instability. Five seconds of EMG were recorded during each bench press and were subsequently smoothed with root mean squares calculated for the entire time-series. A repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test overall differences between exercise conditions for each muscle. Paired equal variance t-tests with a stepwise Bonferroni correction for multiple contrasts were performed for muscles with significant repeated-measures ANOVA results. The results show significant increases in EMG with increasing instability. Specifically, the dual instability bench press resulted in the greatest mean muscle activation of the 3 stability conditions, with single instability conditions being significantly greater than the stable condition. This pattern of results is consistent with the position that performing the bench press in a progressively unstable environment may be an effective method to increase activation of the core stabilizing musculature, while the upper- and lower-body stabilizers can be activated differentially depending on the mode of instability.

The keynote can be viewed here

Abstract

Societal expectations of higher education have changed significantly in the past quarter century without equivalent increases in funding. These changes leave a shortfall between the outcomes higher education is expected to provide, the experiences it aspires to offer and those it can deliver. This shortfall has contributed to higher educations McDonaldization (Ritzer, 1996). Although flexible delivery (flexible delivery) and technology-enhanced learning (technology-enhanced learning) are common strategies to narrow this shortfall, I argue that they can actually increase its breadth. I apply Simons’ model of levers of organizational design to show how higher education can effect cultural changes to help to transform this shortfall into an entrepreneurial gap, thus offering higher education a possible future beyond the golden arches.