Tweet MOTIVATED BY A DESIRE TO CAPTURE AND SHARE WHAT I was learning at the University of British Columbia’s Masters of Human Kinetics graduate degree program, I created this personal-cum-academic blog called Lightfooted using the free WordPress platform for a learning project for Seminar in the Organizational Analysis of Sport & Leisure (Wendy Frisby, HKIN [...]
Tweet This blog post is a kick-start to three of my goals for this year: 1) set more goals; 2) post my Masters of Human Kinetics presentations on SlideShare, and 3) blog two times a week. See you here in a couple of days! Lightfooted Strategies – Goal Setting for Athletes, April 2010 View more [...]
Tweet Q: What motivated you to try your first yoga class? (Question courtesy from myYogaStory.com) I can’t remember my first yoga class – it seems like such a long time ago, but I can tell you what motivated me to head out to the first one this summer: I needed to re-juice my creativity, to become inspired [...]
Tweet I awoke at 6:20am this morning to climb the Grouse Grind - Nature’s staircase. The 2.9km trail from the base to the top of Grouse Mountain consists of over 2,830 steps, which makes for one tough, sweaty hour of bounding around roots & rocks and staggering up steps to the glorious view at the top. The climb [...]
Tweet Social media platforms promotes the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Social Media. Wikipedia, The free encyclopaedia. November 12, 2009). Even though the “prosumer“ concept has been around for 40 years (Toffler, 1970), my experiences as an active, involved content innovator as opposed to the traditional passive recipient of a product or service [...]
Tweet While cruising the ‘net for information on the ‘criminalized’ athlete whose doping activity has either harmed or advanced their careers, I came across Canadian bobsleigh athlete tests positive for steroids (CBC, Feb, 2008). Although Bobsled pilot Serge Despres contests he never knowingly ingested any performance-enhancing drugs or banned substances, he was banned from competing- or [...]
Tweet Relating the Innovation Management Process to Organizational Theory in Sport & Leisure via poor Ricky Berens‘ polyurethane swimsuit malfunction at the July 27, 2009 World Swimming Championship (PC/The Hollywood Gossip ) I’m interested in following-up the incident with a few questions: How did the Italian design company, Jaked, handle the incident? That is, how are they [...]
Tweet I came across this quote while researching the effects of active video games and immediately leapt up from my desk in fear. It appeared in the NSCA’s Strength & Conditioning Journal entitled: Nothing Bad Can Happen Sitting in Front of the TV. Right? (1) [R]ecent evidence (2) suggests that ‘‘sedentary time’’ may be an independent factor in predicting health outcomes. Active [...]
Tweet As I carried a Wii Fit set home from Costco this afternoon, balanced atop a large, heavy box of groceries, a gentleman passed me, saying, “You need to be fit just to carry it home!” It was then – laughing with him, that it dawned on me I was asking the wrong question! [See last [...]
Tweet A viable form of exercise or purely entertainment? Playing new generation active computer games uses significantly more energy than playing sedentary computer games but not as much energy as playing the sport itself. The energy used when playing active Wii Sports games was not of high enough intensity to contribute towards the recommended daily [...]
