Joe P

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/...

The Unifying Theory of Physical Activity This article offers a governing, trans-disciplinary theory for understanding physical activity in humans. The Unifying Theory of Physical Activity involves three aspects. First, it frames physical ...

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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....

The global physical inactivity pandemic: an analysis of knowledge production In July 2012, The Lancet announced a pandemic of physical inactivity and a global call to action to effect change. The worldwide pandemic is said to be claiming millions of lives every year. Assert...

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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....

The World Health Organization, physical activity and the contradictions of neoliberal health promotion This article constitutes the first holistic exploration of how neoliberalism permeates and manifests in Physical Activity Health Promotion (PAHP). It synthesises a critical analysis of neoliberalis...

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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....

Beyond “Move More”: Feeling the Rhythms of physical activity in mid and later-life The last two decades have seen growing unease regarding the negative health consequences of increasing levels of physical inactivity, both in the UK a…

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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...

Physical activity—the past, present and potential future: a state-of-the-art review Abstract. This is a state-of-the-art review of historical developments, current approaches and recommended future directions in physical activity (PA) rese

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@healthtepi.bsky.social
et al encourage a focus on the politics within physical activity.
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

From behaviour to birdsong: reorienting the object of physical activity intervention Physical (in)activity is a seemingly intractable public health problem that has spawned decades of behavioural research and intervention. Globally, efforts to improve physical activity levels have ...

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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?"
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

Reflections on inaction: how might we reverse continuing trends in physical inactivity Physical activity (PA) participation has the potential to support people in living more fulfilling lives. However, recent statistics show that our efforts to increase PA around the world are not wo...

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.

doi.org/10.1080/1940...

#physicalactivity #movement #policy

Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling Walking and cycling get 90c per person each year from the Australian government. What if that figure rose to $5, $10 or $15?

Drivers would benefit from a change to transport funding, here's how
theconversation.com/australia-sp...

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.