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Gareth R. Jones, PhD, is assistant professor of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, where he delivers courses in healthy lifestyle management and program evaluation. Jones was appointed to the National Advisory Board for the development of Canada’s Physical Activity Guide for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples, an initiative of the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada. Jones is the associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Aging and ...
An assessment of all research related to exercise and physical activity requirements for older adults were recently completed by Paterson and Warburton. Much like an Olympic athlete, you need to adopt a daily exercise training regime that includes both aerobic exercise (3 times per week) and resistance (lifting weights) exercise (2 times per week). Aging adults must think like Olympians every day, at least on a relative level when it comes to daily exercise to improve fitness and mitigate ...
Current cross-sectional population studies give some indication to what factors within the built environment are associated with healthier lifestyles. Current evidence on the influence of built environments upon human health tends to polarize either to research that is broadly conceptual or very specific to particular types of environment-behaviour interactions. Inclusion of objective characteristics for both communities (environmental scan) and individuals (physiological assessment) are ...
Team A serves and turns over a card for team B to receive. If they can’t provide three answers, then the point goes to team A. In volleyball a player cannot touch the ball twice, so in this game, a team member cannot provide two answers in a row. In this variation, if team A get three correct answers to a question, team B can play a block, meaning team A has to provide one more example to get the point.
This review critically summarizes the current literature to investigate whether benefits to physical fitness and functioning are engendered through the practice of yoga in older adults. Studies reported moderate improvements for gait (ES = 0.54, 0.80), balance (ES = 0.25–1.61), upper- and lower-body flexibility (ES = 0.25, 0.70), lower-body strength (ES = 0.51), and weight loss (ES = 0.73, 0.99). Yoga may engender improvements in some components of fitness in older adults.
