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January 25, 2011
Motivated for fitness
New exercise guidelines released by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology have lowered the suggested weekly time targets for moderate exercise (from 30-60 minutes a day to two and a half hours a week) but Stats Can figures show only 15 per cent of adults are meeting the new guidelines. SFU kinesiologist Tony Leyland can talk about exercise prescription and what we need to do – whether we’re cramming in activity as “weekend warriors” or high-level athletes, or sitting on the sideline as well-intentioned procrastinators. “The concern is not just what levels of exercise keep you healthy, but adherence,” he says. “The physiology of a program is one thing, but if people aren’t motivated it doesn’t help.”
Tony Leyland, 778.782.4338; leyland@sfu.ca
Live-in for literacy
SFU’s library will become a make-shift camp for students taking part in Live-in for Literacy starting Thursday (Jan. 27). Their goal is to raise $27,000 to build six school libraries in India. The students will eat, sleep and live in a designated area of the library for seven consecutive days. Second-year arts student Kymberly McGarvie says she and friend Laura Bairds will only emerge to go to class and shower (at which point they’ll have designated sit-ins). The experience will be recorded live on webcam. Donations will be collected online and boxes will be set up near tents on the library’s main floor. McGarvie can be reached after 11:30 on Thursday morning.
Kymberly McGarvie, 778.887.3850 (cell)
New exercise guidelines released by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology have lowered the suggested weekly time targets for moderate exercise (from 30-60 minutes a day to two and a half hours a week) but Stats Can figures show only 15 per cent of adults are meeting the new guidelines. SFU kinesiologist Tony Leyland can talk about exercise prescription and what we need to do – whether we’re cramming in activity as “weekend warriors” or high-level athletes, or sitting on the sideline as well-intentioned procrastinators. “The concern is not just what levels of exercise keep you healthy, but adherence,” he says. “The physiology of a program is one thing, but if people aren’t motivated it doesn’t help.”
Tony Leyland, 778.782.4338; leyland@sfu.ca
Live-in for literacy
SFU’s library will become a make-shift camp for students taking part in Live-in for Literacy starting Thursday (Jan. 27). Their goal is to raise $27,000 to build six school libraries in India. The students will eat, sleep and live in a designated area of the library for seven consecutive days. Second-year arts student Kymberly McGarvie says she and friend Laura Bairds will only emerge to go to class and shower (at which point they’ll have designated sit-ins). The experience will be recorded live on webcam. Donations will be collected online and boxes will be set up near tents on the library’s main floor. McGarvie can be reached after 11:30 on Thursday morning.
Kymberly McGarvie, 778.887.3850 (cell)