Now available, all-new: 'Exercise in Obesity from the Perspective of Dual-Process Theories: A Call for Sweeping Change in Professional-Practice Norms.' With Jessica Barker, MPS, LADC, Zachary Zenko, and Kira Werstein.

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Graduation festivities coming up this weekend. Let's GO, Spartans! Let's GO, graduating class of 2024! #MSUKIN College of Education Jerlando F L Jackson Go GREEN! Go WHITE!

Hey, Nick Tiller, Ph.D., do you want to improve your health or don't you? No more cupping! It's now time to step up to *smart* cupping, with a digital thingamajiggy and lights on it! In not one, but two colors: black AND red!

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You would think that we'd be closer to 9 seconds by now...

One of the many benefits of having studied at a school like the UniversityofIllinois is that I once had the tremendously good fortune of attending a lecture by the great modern philosopher Daniel Dennett, who passed away yesterday. Farewell, master.

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What a proud moment and distinct honor today, to be able to give the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Department of Kinesiology at MSU to the inspirational Joe Tate. College of Education Karin Pfeiffer

Call me a pessimist, but sometimes I feel like exercise science might have created a bit of a messaging problem for itself...

$3.5M trial with > 1,000 participants examines the effects of 'gamification' (without assessing affect or enjoyment), financial incentives, and their combination, on physical activity. Without any input from or reference to exercise psychology research.

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FREE PDF: If resistance on the bike is 100% of peak but you cycle for only 5 seconds, so your heart rate or oxygen uptake only go to, say, 60% of peak, is the intensity 'high'? When the outcome is affect, Mark Hartman, Matt Ladwig and I say 'no.' Discuss!

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What do genome-wide association studies, brain-wide association studies, and studies of HIIT/SIT/LV-HIIT/REHIT with numerous dependent variables have in common? Failure to control the false-positive rate and inflation of the effect sizes ('winner's curse'), of course!…