The Importance of Stretching
Stretching helps keep your muscles flexible, strong and healthy. Research shows that a lack of stretching puts you at risk for joint pain, strains and muscle damage. Aim to stretch daily or at least three to four times per week.
Adherence to Sports Injury Rehabilitation
Low adherence to rehabilitation after a sports injury is a common problem. According to research, there are many person-specific factors that influence adherence including motivation, confidence/self efficacy, coping, social support, coping, and psychological skills. Athletes should find a strategy that works best for them.
Multiple Types of Exercise for Older Adults
Research demonstrates that it’s important for older adults to engage in all four types of exercise including endurance, strength, balance, and flexibility as each one provides its own benefits. Endurance exercises improve the health of your heart and lungs, and strength exercises can help maintain independence and prevent falls. While balance exercises can help prevent…
Recommendations and resources for disability sport event managers
There are many things that need to be considered when planning a sport event. The Canadian Disability Participation Project has created a module called Training and Managing Disability Sport Event Volunteers: Recommendations and Resources to help any sporting body or sport event manager in training and managing a volunteer workforce. It includes 12 best practice…
Increasing Physical Activity in People With Spinal Cord Injury
Approximately 50% of individuals with spinal cord injuries lack sufficient physical activity. Researchers studied behavior-change interventions and found that providing practical support, individualization, and monitoring had a greater impact on promoting physical activity compared to group-based approaches. By targeting behavior change, using behavior change frameworks, and specific techniques, these interventions effectively encourage physical activity in…
Motor Learning Without Physical Practice
Did you know that imagining yourself performing motor skills can actually improve your performance? In a recent study, participants who combined watching actions with motor imagery achieved faster movement execution times compared to other groups with improvements lasting even after a week. lasted even after a week. These findings can help athletes develop complex motor…
Self-talk Enhances Endurance Performance
When athletes are mentally tired, it can negatively impact their performance. In a study, mentally fatigued athletes performed worse in endurance tests. However, when they used motivational self-talk during these tests, their performance improved. This means positive self-talk can actually overcome the negative effects of mental fatigue and boost performance.
Daily Walking and Risk of Early Death
Researchers at the University of Cambridge found that 11 minutes a day (75 minutes per week) of moderate-intensity physical activity would be sufficient to lower the risk of many diseases such as heart disease and cancer. They used a brisk walk as an example of an easy moderate-intensity activity to do every day
Sport Participation and Grit
Grit is defined as the combination of perseverance and passion that helps one overcome challenge. According to research, sport participation in childhood can lead to higher levels of grit in adulthood. Grit can be beneficial for stress, setbacks, failures, and helplessness, making it an important tool for wellbeing.
Enhancing accountability and alignment within Canadian Basketball clubs through collaborative governance
State of basketball programming in Canada Beginning in 2022, Canada Basketball sought to innovate the way clubs are aligned to form the amateur basketball system in this country. Since 2015, the popularity of basketball has grown an unprecedented amount. As a result of the rapid rise in basketball’s popularity, youth basketball has been inundated with…