UP & Moving

10/11/2025

In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, check out these student videos that are part of the Midwest ACSM Exercise is Medicine Video Challenge. The theme this year is promoting exercise for cancer prevention and supportive care.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvdMXg_EM7HVagYz2j7K2Jb9nChbMyw-s

"Exercise is Medicine Clinical Video Challenge, 2025Vote for this video by ""liking"" it/hitting the thumbs up icon!"Visit us on the Midwest ACSM websitehttp...

06/12/2024

Ashley Hawke, a doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology & Integrative Physiology, is beginning data collection for her dissertation research and is looking for healthcare workers to participate! Participation entails 3 visits (each 2 hours or less) to the new H-STEM building on campus. The first visit will be a familiarization session to go over study procedures (~1 hour), then visits 2 and 3 will consist of performing patient handling tasks with different pieces of equipment (~2 hours each). Visits will be scheduled based on your availability! This includes early mornings, nights, and weekends. THIS IS A PAID OPPORTUNITY!! Participants will be compensated $150 following completion of the 3 visits. Please reach out to Ashley via email at [email protected] if you are interested in participating! If you don’t fit the criteria, we would appreciate you passing along this information to someone who may be interested!

06/12/2024

Community Members - Please help us spread the word as we are looking for healthcare workers to participate in a research study at Michigan Tech University

Ashley Hawke, a doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology & Integrative Physiology, is beginning data collection for her dissertation research and is looking for healthcare workers to participate! Participation entails 3 visits (each 2 hours or less) to the new H-STEM building on campus.

The first visit will be a familiarization session to go over study procedures (~1 hour), then visits 2 and 3 will consist of performing patient handling tasks with different pieces of equipment (~2 hours each). Visits will be scheduled based on your availability! This includes early mornings, nights, and weekends.

THIS IS A PAID OPPORTUNITY!! Participants will be compensated $150 following completion of the 3 visits. Please reach out to Ashley via email at [email protected] if you are interested in participating!

If you don’t fit the criteria, we would appreciate you passing along this information to someone who may be interested!

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05/03/2024

Summer Workout Schedule
The UP and Moving team will shift to its summer workout schedule starting the week of April 29th. Weekly live workouts will be delivered (Zoom and Facebook) on Thursday's at 9:00am EDT throughout the summer. Thank you!

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04/25/2024

Dr. Elmer published an op-ed in the Daily Mining Gazette and Mining Journal Newspapers about the importance of staying physically active this spring. https://www.mininggazette.com/opinion/columns/2024/04/do-your-part-to-be-active-this-spring/

https://www.miningjournal.net/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2024/04/time-to-step-up/

To the Journal editor: Nearly a quarter of Michiganders are not physically active during their leisure time. This is very concerning as low levels of physical activity and a sedentary lifestyle increase the risk for many health conditions such as heart disease, cancer, obesity and depression as well...

04/11/2024

Do you think you could pass the Presidential Fitness Test today? Check out this New York Time article:

Whether you loved it or loathed it as a kid, the exercises can still be a revealing measure of health — now that no one’s forcing you to do them.

04/04/2024

Yesterday was National Walking Day! Check out this guide from the American Heart Association on it:

https://www.heart.org/-/media/Healthy-Living-Files/Fitness/Move_More_Toolkit.pdf?sc_lang=en&hash=74512C22F3EA9D2015E7854AE5417FAD #:~:text=National%20Walking%20Day%20is%20April%203%2C%202024.&text=Let's%20walk%20together%20to%20benefit,improves%20your%20quality%20of%20sleep.

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03/30/2024

The UP and Moving Team is extremely proud to announce that Michigan Tech University has been Recognized as a Silver Level Campus by Exercise is Medicine® On Campus Program!

Michigan Tech is among 145 campuses honored worldwide Houghton, MI – Michigan Tech University is one of only 145 universities and colleges around the world to be honored by Exercise is Medicine® for its efforts to create a culture of wellness on campus. Students and faculty that deliver the “UP...

03/27/2024

Recent studies show that exercising regularly is associated with less sleep loss, check it out:

Regular exercise has so many health benefits, and treating insomnia could be added to that list, according to a new study.

03/20/2024

I believe that most people have felt the effects of social isolation. Here's an article about how physical activity helps these negative effects:

A new study published in Nature Mental Health provides evidence that engaging in physical activity can mitigate the adverse impacts of social isolation on mental well-being, particularly among individuals who are psychologically and neurobiologically vulnerable.

03/14/2024

As we bring this up plenty of times, here is an article about how every bit of physical activity helps!

Biking to the store. Raking leaves. Playing with your kids. Scientists are getting a clearer picture of all the activities that offer health benefits.

03/06/2024

Some think that high intensity workouts are needed to see health benefits, but check out this article about how low leisure-time activity helps with preventing stroke in the long run:

Recently, scientists conducted a systematic review and metaanalysis to understand better whether different levels of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) prevent stroke.