Dear aspiring exercise professionals,  When it comes to working with chronic disease populations, you may find it exciting, dreadfully boring or maybe even complex and intimidating. I’ve always found myself drawn to working with chronic disease populations - I love the simplicity of seemingly insignificant changes in activity level

Dear aspiring student-athletes, I remember the excitement and joy I had when I had finally closed in on a post-secondary institution to continue my education, but also continue my athletics. Growing up play ice hockey, I didn’t want to stop playing competitively after high school. I reached out to

Dear aspiring strength and conditioning coaches,  I used to think that “making it” as a S&C coach was when you trained high level athletes from the Olympics.  I was wrong. “Making it” as an S&C coach is more than just training Olympic athletes. I was very

Dear future kinesiology graduate, Success is tricky to define.  It’s entirely subjective and a highly individualized concept. What constitutes success for one person may not for another. This goes for everything in life and is especially relevant in our education and career journeys. For someone struggling in their first

Dear future kinesiology graduate, For most of you, “exercise physiology” might be associated with that course you were forced to take in your third or fourth year of undergrad where you had to write way too many lab reports and assignments on complicated topics that you vaguely understood. Or, maybe

Dear future kinesiology graduate, Whether you are new to the field or have been working for a while, you are likely familiar with the certifications out there or the ones that are required to practice kinesiology/exercise physiology in North America (CSEP, ACSM, AKA, NSCA, etc). In order to maintain

Dear future kinesiology graduate, Whether you are nearing the end of your undergraduate degree or you’ve already graduated and are out in the working world, I’m sure you have come across the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP) at some point. There are two certifications that CSEP offers,

Dear aspiring kinesiologists, During the semester, our body can take a toll from our long days of sitting in class, studying, and working on assignments. While we work towards completing our degrees in kinesiology with a passion to promote health and fitness for our community, we sometimes forget to take

Dear future kinesiology graduates, Have you gone through the process of finding references for an academic or job application? Will you be doing it in the near future? Well let’s talk about asking for references and the etiquette tips to consider. Firstly, what is a reference? References are people

Dear future kinesiology graduate, Starting your own business in the field might be something that has crossed your mind already. I know I’ve often thought about it! Today, I’m excited to share a conversation with Carla Robbins, the owner of Vital Strength and Physiology. Vital Strength and Physiology

Dear future kinesiology graduate, As a follow-up from our original blog post, Master of Kinesiology (MKin) Program: Reflecting on our Experiences as 2021 Graduates, we are excited to share some more up-to-date experiences from the University of Calgary MKin program. We have interviewed Julia Moorhouse (April 2023 MKin graduate) and

Dear aspiring researchers and coaches in kinesiology, In today's blog post, I’m thrilled to introduce you to Carla van den Berg. With an academic and research background in Kinesiology, Carla's journey has taken her from playing varsity rugby and working as a student athletic therapist,

Dear aspiring physiotherapists, Congratulations! You’re set on wanting to become a physiotherapist after finishing your degree. But now what? What steps do you need to take to become a physiotherapist? What does a physiotherapist actually do? Today, I’m excited to share with you an interview that Your Kines

Dear future kinesiology graduate, To gap or not to gap? That is the question. Whether or not to take a gap year is something that anyone planning to pursue more schooling after undergrad will eventually have to face. I certainly did. What is a gap year? A gap year is

Dear future kinesiology graduate, If you’ve been following Your Kines Mentor for a while now, I’m sure you’ve noticed a common theme between all four mentors – we graduated from the Master of Kinesiology (MKin) program at the University of Calgary in 2021. Whether you are a kinesiology

Dear future or current CSEP-CEP candidate, When I was preparing to study for the CSEP-CEP exams, I remember asking everyone I know who had their certification: How did you find the exams? How did you study? What material did you use? I always got the same vague responses: They weren’

Dear kinesiology student, Have mentors and colleagues told you to network to help with your career? But what is networking and why is it so important? To me, networking is the process of making genuine connections and building relationships. Networking can help you to quickly advance your career by opening

An Interview with Zachary McClean Dear future kinesiology graduate, Whether or not to take a course-based or a research-based (thesis-based) masters program is a pretty common question people have coming out of undergrad. Is one easier than the other? Will one give you a better chance of getting a job?

When I finished my undergraduate degree in New York State, I was considering writing my American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Clinical Exercise Physiologist (CEP) exam. I learned shortly after that I would have needed 1,200 hours of hands-on experience along with my bachelors degree. Yeah, no thanks. As

Many kinesiology undergraduate students have the goal to pursue physiotherapy after their degree, but how many of them have actually seen and understood what the role of the kinesiologist vs. the physiotherapist is in rehabilitation? Maybe if students had a better understanding of the difference between the two, it would

Dear soon to be kinesiology graduates, You’re on your way to finishing our degree and want to start the process of applying for jobs. Your degree should be enough… right? This is a common question that many of my classmates and I faced during our undergraduate and master'

Dear future kinesiology graduate, My journey into the field of kinesiology was a pretty typical one: I applied to the undergraduate program at the University of Calgary with the goal of becoming a physiotherapist. I remember sitting in a physiotherapy clinic early in my grade 12 year while the physiotherapist