#physicalactivity
I think you will want to sit down to read this. Olivia F has led this provocative reflection on one of the most ingrained concepts in PA and health. @benjaminrigby.bsky.social
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📢 New publication

We challenge ideas of movement = health & inactivity = harm.

Instead, we explore how purposeful stillness & rest alongside #physicalactivity are vital to human flourishing.

Thanks @OliviaFlemons, @JoePigginPhD, Thiago & Michelle!

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Interested in physical activity? And in making the world a better place?
Here are links to 3 articles with some hopeful ideas for the future: physicalactivitypolitics.com/2025/07/17/t...

"The global community of physical activity scientists, advocates, and policy influencers must expose, debunk, and confront those who are shaping current narratives that devalue or obstruct physical activity related policy."

Great ideas here!

Just published my first BMJ Opinion, with Kent Buse and Fiona Bull... Powerful actors who undermine physical activity must be challenged... Read the article here: www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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From 11 years ago, we critiqued some of the ideas which informed the announcement of the global pandemic of PA.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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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."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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@healthtepi.bsky.social
et al encourage a focus on the politics within physical activity.
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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."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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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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8 articles for changing your mind about physical activity, human movement, and health.

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@benjaminrigby.bsky.social
et al encourage us to pause and reflect on how our advocacy might inadvertently be limiting our efforts to try populations more active.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢New publication

My co-authors and I call for reflection over more action in this Critical Commentary on continued trends in physical inactivity around the world.

I have 50 free copies to share - pls contact me and share this post.

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#physicalactivity #movement #policy

Drivers would benefit from a change to transport funding, here's how
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What an excellent call to action ... "to develop politically informed action on PA." Bravo Tepi and colleagues.

I believe traditional scholarship (which is important of course) can be transcended in favour of creative, challenging and disruptive work.

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.

Great question. I believe yes.
Inadvertently, car companies (in urban areas.)
Politicians who serve corporate donors rather than their voting constituents.

So I've had a go at a Starter Pack thing to see if @nanettemutrie.bsky.social and I can find more #physicalactivity friends who have made the jump across.
Additional tags welcomed and will add
go.bsky.app/DsHNWPf

Hello. I acknowledge your message. And I appreciate it.

Hello. I shall use this for research-related communication.