Attached is a quick summary frorm the SIG meeting held in Toronto this year. I have already noticed one error, and in an unfortunate place. Michael Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. is our new chair. We are very happy to have Michael and I apologize for the error in his email address. The correct address is: KirkpaMi@...
You are welcome to email me with any questions as we are changing things around. My email is markandamandaadams@... and my work phone is (775) 323-2101. Thanks for you continued interest and support. - Amanda
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The Journal of Teaching in Physical Education (JTPE) has published
behavioral studies using single subject designs for many years.
Among the most prominent scholars would be Dr. Thom McKenzie and Dr.
Brent Rushall, both at San Diego State University.
Daryl Siedentop
--
Daryl Siedentop
Director, OSU P-12 Project
185 Arps Hall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 247-6398
Fax: (614) 247-7090
e-mail: Siedentop.1@...
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Intrnational Journal of Sport Psychology
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise
International Journal of Obesity
Health Psychology
>From: "flashhenry" <flashhenry@...>
>Reply-To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
>To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [B-fit] In the words of E.T., "input."
>Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 21:07:48 -0000
>
>Ahoy B-fitters, I need your help. I'm working with the Cambridge
>Center for Behavioral Studies to develop the sports/fitness section of
>their website. Eventually, we'll move our whole kit and kaboodle over
>there, since they now have the capability to host our bulletin board,
>chats, etc. Right now, we're going to include our newsletter, a list
>of prominent contributors to the field (any maybe selected
>references), and a list of publication outlets for research in the
>field. The latter two is where ya'll come in. Please send the names
>and/or publications that you feel should be included on these lists.
>I'll put them together in some coherent form and forward them to Joe
>Plaud at the Cambridge Center.
>
>Thanks,
>Gordon Henry
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Ahoy B-fitters, I need your help. I'm working with the Cambridge
Center for Behavioral Studies to develop the sports/fitness section of
their website. Eventually, we'll move our whole kit and kaboodle over
there, since they now have the capability to host our bulletin board,
chats, etc. Right now, we're going to include our newsletter, a list
of prominent contributors to the field (any maybe selected
references), and a list of publication outlets for research in the
field. The latter two is where ya'll come in. Please send the names
and/or publications that you feel should be included on these lists.
I'll put them together in some coherent form and forward them to Joe
Plaud at the Cambridge Center.
Thanks,
Gordon Henry
Have you looked at the "activity anorexia" work of Epling and Pierce? They have both presented at ABA on this topic, involving the connection between eating disorders and compulsive exercise.
Thanks for providing that full reference, Daryl.
Hope it's helpful Mark.
Gordon Henry
--- Daryl Siedentop <siedentop.1@...> wrote:
> The article referenced by Flashenry is:
>
> Beilock & Carr (2001). On the fragility of skilled
> performance: What
> governs choking under pressure?
>
> JEP-General Volume 130, #4.
>
> The data from this article were cited in a recent
> Golf Digest I believe.
>
> DS
> --
> Daryl Siedentop
> Director, OSU P-12 Project
> 153 Arps Hall
> The Ohio State University
> Columbus, OH 43210
>
> Phone: (614) 247-6398
> Fax: (614) 688-3942
> e-mail: Siedentop.1@...
>
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The article referenced by Flashenry is:
Beilock & Carr (2001). On the fragility of skilled performance: What
governs choking under pressure?
JEP-General Volume 130, #4.
The data from this article were cited in a recent Golf Digest I believe.
DS
--
Daryl Siedentop
Director, OSU P-12 Project
153 Arps Hall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 247-6398
Fax: (614) 688-3942
e-mail: Siedentop.1@...
Hello,
Thanks for pointing out an interesting article. I am interested in doing
some work with golfers. Had trouble with the link in your email. Can you
give me the reference and I can get the article the more "traditional" way.
Thanks again,
Mark Adams, Ph.D.
University of Nevada, Reno
>From: "flashhenry" <flashhenry@...>
>Reply-To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
>To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [B-fit] Choking
>Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:10:29 -0000
>
>Hey all,
>There's a very interesting article on "choking" in this month's
>Journal of Experimental Psychology using golfers' putting as the
>performance measure. The article introduction does an excellent job
>explaining the various theoretical underpinnings of choking
>(performing poorly in specific situations when the consequences of
>performance, especially poor performance, are of greater than normal
>value). Seems like lots of great research ideas in the article...
>
>To read the article online, go to:
>http://www.apa.org/journals/xge/press_releases/december_2001/xge130470
>1.html
>
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Hey all,
There's a very interesting article on "choking" in this month's
Journal of Experimental Psychology using golfers' putting as the
performance measure. The article introduction does an excellent job
explaining the various theoretical underpinnings of choking
(performing poorly in specific situations when the consequences of
performance, especially poor performance, are of greater than normal
value). Seems like lots of great research ideas in the article...
To read the article online, go to:
http://www.apa.org/journals/xge/press_releases/december_2001/xge130470
1.html
If you can find any work on Feldenkrais, or "Awareness Through Movement," much is discussed about body awareness in space, which would involve the proprioceptive sense.
The "zdorovye" health system, a Russian method, does considerable work on posture, balance, breathing, and movement. You can find information at www.zdorovye.com.
Hi all!
I have been working with an older population of individuals for the past
year and a half and have grown increasingly interested in improving balance
and proprioception. Any information you might have on research, training
techniques, equipment, etc., related to this topic would be greatly
appreciated.
Stay happy and healthy,
Kim
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That is a great idea, if you could interview Jack Stark. I would certainly want to read that. I've only seen a passing reference to Tom Osborne's involvement with behavioral work and would be interested in some of the specifics.
Or, consider interviewing Jack Stark, an Omaha based psychologist who
worked with the team (NE football team) over last decade or so? He has
been v. willing to spend time on the phone wth me in past.
Jodi Polaha
czbobb@...
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12/07/2001 Subject: Re: [B-fit] (unknown)
10:38 AM
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respond to
B-fit
To all:
How about a profile of Tom Osborne, ex-coach at Nebraska and behavioral
psychologist? For years, Osborne talked about the benefits of contingent
positive reinforcement with his players. Highly successful coaches like
Osborne (he won at least one national championship in football) can send a
powerful message. You don't have to scold to be a great, inspiring coach.
Bob Stein
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How about a profile of Tom Osborne, ex-coach at Nebraska and behavioral psychologist? For years, Osborne talked about the benefits of contingent positive reinforcement with his players. Highly successful coaches like Osborne (he won at least one national championship in football) can send a powerful message. You don't have to scold to be a great, inspiring coach.
Thanks to Steve for reminding me of the ABA convention where Larry
presented...actually, it was some preliminary data from his
dissertation for which I was his advisor. Steve neglected to mention
that it was at this same session just after panelists were introduced
(Steve was also a panelist) that the rest of us on the panel stood up
and brought out scissors and cut off our ties about half way up ...
all in honor of The Graffer whose data I recall were from his
daughter's free throw shooting practice over the years.
Larry's work was primarily tied to getting more out of practices.
Mt. Union was switching from a traditional run-oriented offense to a
pass offense...Larry and I created an observation system which
charted every pass and catch in practice, results of which were
posted immediately...it was a fairly complex system so required
trained observers..Goals were set for QB's and receivers and weekly
practice results became pretty important barometers of team offensive
improvement.Larry also created an innovation with his scout team (the
least skilled kids on the team who mimic the weekly opponents offense
and defense during practice)...He charted the scout team performance
in terms of running plays quickly, running them with accuracy and the
like...the +Re was that when the scout team met a specific criterion
for the week,they got to choose one of their own to actually be in
the starting line up for the saturday game...the kid got to start and
play a play or two but it was very motivating to the whole scout team
to have one of their own recognized and it made the week's practices
much more efficient for the regular players.
Daryl Siedentop
--
Daryl Siedentop
Director, OSU P-12 Project
153 Arps Hall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 247-6398
Fax: (614) 688-3942
e-mail: Siedentop.1@...
In case anyone wants to check it out, here is the URL for Health Management
Resources, the company I mentioned in my email earlier today -
http://www.yourbetterhealth.com. I saw the scientific presentation; you'll
see that this clearly is a promotional site.
Rick
It was 1985. Site of the ABA Convention was Columbus, Ohio. At a symposium
entitled "Behavior Analysis in Sports" one of the presenters, a young college
football coach who had yet to coach his first official game described some
drills and team concepts that he had incorporated in spring practice. He
cited Bill Heward and Daryl Siedentop for priming him with ideas of applying
behavior analysis to football.
Today in 2001 that same coach has the highest winning percentage of any
football coach in NCAA history (just over 90%). His Mount Union College team
broke the all-time record for consecutive wins, achieving 54 in a row. The
Mount Union current streak (26) is the longest in the country. Larry Kehres,
the coach, has won 80 of his last 81 games. Is Behavior Analysis the key to
his success?
Steve Graf
The Graffer
TheGraffer@...
Professor of Psychology
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH
Darryl and SIG members,
What an excellent summary of recent and past work of some of the pioneers of
behavioral sport psychology! Thank you. I wonder if we could get some
presentations from these folks, perhaps even yourself again, at ABA 2003?
Session attendance, which has been a problem at time, was very good last
year.
I am very interested to hear of CDC's interest in behavioral
self-management. I recently attended a presentation by Larry Silfer, CEO of
Health Management Resources. He presented impressive data on program
compliance and weight loss among (quite) obesefolks on very low and low
calorie diets. His analyses really converged to show how important an
unwavering structure of planning, recording, reporting, was. I didn't hear
of any explicit aversive contingencies, except perhaps the negative
reinforcement we all feel when we have to report that we failed to
accomplish something. I don't know much more about his program, but intend
to follow up and take a look.
By the way, sorry I've been out of touch with the group. I recently joined
the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School / Eunice
Kennedy Shriver Center as Director of Instructional Technology. I'll be
working with some great colleagues, including an IT department, to develop
web-based education, training and contingency management programs. Our
particular emphasis needs to be on persons with development disabilities and
their caregivers, as we proceed to conduct research, but I'm hoping to
continue to do some work in the area of sports and health.
Nice to read the recent dialogue!
Rick
Richard K. Fleming, Ph.D.
Director of Instructional Technology
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
University of Massachusetts Medical School
200 Trapelo Road
Waltham, MA 02452
(781) 642-0023
Richard.Fleming@...
>From: Daryl Siedentop <siedentop.1@...>
>Reply-To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
>To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [B-fit] B-Fit
>Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:18:31 -0500
>
>Re: Gordon Henry's suggestion and some others too.
>
>Brent Rushall, at San Diego State U., has done more behavioral work
>with elite sport teams than anybody in the world. He worked for
>years with several Canadian olympic teams as well as teams and sport
>organizations in Autralia and other countries. He has a long history
>of publications regarding these activities.
>
>Thom McKenzie, also at SDSU, was Brent's MA student and my doctoral
>student. He was a "performance enhancement specialist" for years
>with the USA Women's Volleyball Team. Martin Gipson of U. of
>Pacific, another ABAer, also worked with Thom in that project. The
>coach of the team for all that time was Terry Liskeyvych, another of
>my students, who has used behavioral principles consistently with his
>teams -- and, I might add, with himself. Thom created an
>intervention for Terry one year that required him to give only that
>feedback in post game analysis that was related to team and
>individual goals for that game -- keep him from wandering.
>
>Thom has also been the co-principal investigator on CATCH and SPARK
>to federally funded projects to enhance physical activity among kids,
>funded over the years at about $34M. Behavioral self management has
>become a standard part of those interventions/programs. CATCH (Child
>and Adolsecent Trial for Cardiovascular Health) was the largest
>funded project of its kind in federal funding history. The current
>new effort that Thom is a part of (the acronym escapes me at the
>moment) is a physical activity intervention for adolescent girls,
>particularly african-american girls, one of the most at-risk for
>health populations in the nation.
>
>You might also be interested to know that CDC now is very enamored of
>behavioral self management as it seeks to promote programs that work
>for increased physical activity. I just served on their Expert Panel
>to develop criteria for filtering programs that would gain CDC
>approval and behavioral self management appears to be central to most
>of the programs that will or have applied.
>
>The problem CDC faces is that their previous work with smoking
>cessation and STD/AIDS education programs are that (1) they are
>cognitively oriented and (2) they rely primarily on aversive
>consequences for programmatic efforts. In efforts to develop
>programs that aim to increase physical activity and reduce obesity,
>neither of those approaches has any efficacy.
>
>
>Daryl Siedentop
>--
>Daryl Siedentop
>Director, OSU P-12 Project
>153 Arps Hall
>The Ohio State University
>Columbus, OH 43210
>
>Phone: (614) 247-6398
>Fax: (614) 688-3942
>e-mail: Siedentop.1@...
I don't know about professional teams, but it looks as though I can develop
access to a woman's basketball team (college varsity), and men's soccer. I
am currently getting set up to work with recreational roller skaters, field
hockey, and lacrosse players (latter two all women). I'll keep you posted
in the spring.
I started to outline a brief conceptual article on thermal discrimination
for enhancing swimming stroke, but haven't gotten it all written yet. I'm
relearning how to swim as an adult (I learned at YMCA camp 30 years ago). I
have trouble with my stroke, and mistime my breathing so much that I have to
take a break after each lap or two. I found my swimming stronger and my
breathing better one cool day when the Y staff left the outside door open
(more laps, though I haven't kept data unfortunately). The air in the
indoor pool area was much cooler and drier than normal. A correlational
study with an indoor swim team might be a good start for assessing the
influence of the temperature/humidity variable. Obviously, single-subject
designs with a baseline, intervention, and reversal would be more compelling
evidence. I thought it would make a good short article to see if anyone has
data on the topic. So far though, it is only a reflection of information
observations. No data.
Michael
Michael A. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Wesley College
120 North State Street
Dover, DE 19901-3875
Office Phone: 1-302-736-2457
E-mail: kirkpami@...
-----Original Message-----
From: kevinjan [mailto:kevinjan@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:33 PM
To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
Cc: markandamandaadams@...
Subject: RE: [B-fit] (unknown)
Those are great ideas, Gordon. I'll expect at least 4 articles from that
material from you for the next newsletter. OK, maybe I don't expect you to
come up with all of them.
I tell you, it would be awesome for a behavior analyst to get access to some
kind of professional team to do a little experimental training. I bet we
could solve some pretty serious problems for them. I keep thinking that if
we could get an "in" the results would lead to more opportunities. Of
course, if this happened, I'd expect a newsletter article out of it.
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Henry [mailto:flashhenry@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:15 PM
> To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [B-fit] (unknown)
>
>
>
> --- Mark Adams <markandamandaadams@...> wrote:
> > Heelo friends,
> > In preparing for the next newsletter, are there any
> > topics of particular
> > interest to you that you would like to see a written
> > up? Thank-you
> > ____________________________
> > Drs. Mark and Amanda Adams
> > 1301 University Terrace
> > Reno, NV 89503
> > Hm:(775)787-7183
> >
> >
> >
> I sent a short manuscript to Kevin regarding a
> feedback intervention with amateur tennis players.
>
> But, here's a couple other ideas. It might be
> interesting to read a sort of biography or historical
> sketch of a prominent figure in the application of
> behavioral principles to health, sports, fitness
> settings. This could be a series, actually.
>
> Also, we might find an athletic team to do a little
> expose (read an accent over the second "e") on.
> Almost all amateur and professional teams are using at
> least some behavioral principles, they just don't use
> our vocabulary. Similarly, we might find a particular
> practitioner who has some skill at applying behavioral
> principles (such as a fitness trainer, a gym manager,
> a coach, etc.) even though they may not refer to their
> techniques as such.
>
> Gordon (the idea guy) Henry
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Re: Gordon Henry's suggestion and some others too.
Brent Rushall, at San Diego State U., has done more behavioral work
with elite sport teams than anybody in the world. He worked for
years with several Canadian olympic teams as well as teams and sport
organizations in Autralia and other countries. He has a long history
of publications regarding these activities.
Thom McKenzie, also at SDSU, was Brent's MA student and my doctoral
student. He was a "performance enhancement specialist" for years
with the USA Women's Volleyball Team. Martin Gipson of U. of
Pacific, another ABAer, also worked with Thom in that project. The
coach of the team for all that time was Terry Liskeyvych, another of
my students, who has used behavioral principles consistently with his
teams -- and, I might add, with himself. Thom created an
intervention for Terry one year that required him to give only that
feedback in post game analysis that was related to team and
individual goals for that game -- keep him from wandering.
Thom has also been the co-principal investigator on CATCH and SPARK
to federally funded projects to enhance physical activity among kids,
funded over the years at about $34M. Behavioral self management has
become a standard part of those interventions/programs. CATCH (Child
and Adolsecent Trial for Cardiovascular Health) was the largest
funded project of its kind in federal funding history. The current
new effort that Thom is a part of (the acronym escapes me at the
moment) is a physical activity intervention for adolescent girls,
particularly african-american girls, one of the most at-risk for
health populations in the nation.
You might also be interested to know that CDC now is very enamored of
behavioral self management as it seeks to promote programs that work
for increased physical activity. I just served on their Expert Panel
to develop criteria for filtering programs that would gain CDC
approval and behavioral self management appears to be central to most
of the programs that will or have applied.
The problem CDC faces is that their previous work with smoking
cessation and STD/AIDS education programs are that (1) they are
cognitively oriented and (2) they rely primarily on aversive
consequences for programmatic efforts. In efforts to develop
programs that aim to increase physical activity and reduce obesity,
neither of those approaches has any efficacy.
Daryl Siedentop
--
Daryl Siedentop
Director, OSU P-12 Project
153 Arps Hall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 247-6398
Fax: (614) 688-3942
e-mail: Siedentop.1@...
Those are great ideas, Gordon. I'll expect at least 4 articles from that
material from you for the next newsletter. OK, maybe I don't expect you to
come up with all of them.
I tell you, it would be awesome for a behavior analyst to get access to some
kind of professional team to do a little experimental training. I bet we
could solve some pretty serious problems for them. I keep thinking that if
we could get an "in" the results would lead to more opportunities. Of
course, if this happened, I'd expect a newsletter article out of it.
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Henry [mailto:flashhenry@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:15 PM
> To: B-fit@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [B-fit] (unknown)
>
>
>
> --- Mark Adams <markandamandaadams@...> wrote:
> > Heelo friends,
> > In preparing for the next newsletter, are there any
> > topics of particular
> > interest to you that you would like to see a written
> > up? Thank-you
> > ____________________________
> > Drs. Mark and Amanda Adams
> > 1301 University Terrace
> > Reno, NV 89503
> > Hm:(775)787-7183
> >
> >
> >
> I sent a short manuscript to Kevin regarding a
> feedback intervention with amateur tennis players.
>
> But, here's a couple other ideas. It might be
> interesting to read a sort of biography or historical
> sketch of a prominent figure in the application of
> behavioral principles to health, sports, fitness
> settings. This could be a series, actually.
>
> Also, we might find an athletic team to do a little
> expose (read an accent over the second "e") on.
> Almost all amateur and professional teams are using at
> least some behavioral principles, they just don't use
> our vocabulary. Similarly, we might find a particular
> practitioner who has some skill at applying behavioral
> principles (such as a fitness trainer, a gym manager,
> a coach, etc.) even though they may not refer to their
> techniques as such.
>
> Gordon (the idea guy) Henry
>
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--- Mark Adams <markandamandaadams@...> wrote:
> Heelo friends,
> In preparing for the next newsletter, are there any
> topics of particular
> interest to you that you would like to see a written
> up? Thank-you
> ____________________________
> Drs. Mark and Amanda Adams
> 1301 University Terrace
> Reno, NV 89503
> Hm:(775)787-7183
>
>
>
I sent a short manuscript to Kevin regarding a
feedback intervention with amateur tennis players.
But, here's a couple other ideas. It might be
interesting to read a sort of biography or historical
sketch of a prominent figure in the application of
behavioral principles to health, sports, fitness
settings. This could be a series, actually.
Also, we might find an athletic team to do a little
expose (read an accent over the second "e") on.
Almost all amateur and professional teams are using at
least some behavioral principles, they just don't use
our vocabulary. Similarly, we might find a particular
practitioner who has some skill at applying behavioral
principles (such as a fitness trainer, a gym manager,
a coach, etc.) even though they may not refer to their
techniques as such.
Gordon (the idea guy) Henry
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