Synopsis
Sporty is your guide to the powerful place of sport and fitness in Australias cultural life. Recognising its much more than a game, Sporty charts and analyses big-time spectator sports, celebrates the amateur athlete and encourages anyone struggling to get active. You dont have to get sport, to get Sporty!
Episodes
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Exercise for mind and body
11/07/2020 Duration: 29minHow good a physical and mental workout can you get from gardening? What about housework?
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Great teams pt 2; Sporty Fitness Challenge
04/07/2020 Duration: 29minThere's a common factor among the world's all-time greatest sports teams. What is it? Enter the Sporty Fitness Challenge!
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And the winner is...
27/06/2020 Duration: 29minWhat will hosting the FIFA Women's World Cup do for women's football in Australia?
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Late starters, sore joints, running gait
20/06/2020 Duration: 29minHow late can you leave it to get active and develop the kind of muscle strength and function that will benefit you into old age?
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Running with the black dog
13/06/2020 Duration: 29minWhat's the role of sport in the general conversation about mental health?
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Rebel cricketers & Olympian on the COVID frontline
06/06/2020 Duration: 29minIn the early 1980s a bunch of West Indian cricketers changed their lives forever by playing in apartheid South Africa
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The sleepless athlete; when exercise hurts part 5
30/05/2020 Duration: 29minA few sleepless nights and you definitely won't be at your best. So what's the effect of poor sleep on an athlete's performance?
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Community sport & Covid19; when exercise hurts pt4
23/05/2020 Duration: 29minWill local sport be forever changed by the coronavirus shutdown? Is it all bad?
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Invent-a-Sport judging; when exercise hurts part 3
16/05/2020 Duration: 29minAustralia's newest sport revealed as the winner of the Invent-a-Sport competition is announced
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Missing the action; when exercise hurts pt2
09/05/2020 Duration: 29minHow have your habits around physical activity and sport changed over the past weeks? What will stay the same and what will change again as restrictions ease?
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Olympic disruptions, and when exercise hurts
02/05/2020 Duration: 29minThe Olympic Games have a long history of disruption. War, terrorism, protests, boycotts and cancellations are all part of the Olympic story.
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The business end of sport, plus walking & skipping
25/04/2020 Duration: 29minGetting fiscal as well as physical in this edition of Sporty...
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Chemotherapy & Exercise, Invent-a-Sport, Quidditch
18/04/2020 Duration: 29minSometimes the remedy can make you feel even sicker. Can exercise help counteract the negative effects of chemotherapy?
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The Ajax Thirds, Invent-a-Sport, Three sided soccer
11/04/2020 Duration: 29minWhat do you do if your religion stops you from playing the sport you love? The Ajax Thirds Aussie Rules footy team have found a way.
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Invent-a-sport, Motor sport goes medical, eSports
03/04/2020 Duration: 29minHow about making up your own sport? There are 3 types: fight, flight, flounce. Which will yours be? Enter the Invent-a-Sport competition.
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Olympic letdown, Virtual cycling, Cheerleading
27/03/2020 Duration: 28minExercise and see the world, even amid all current restrictions! Virtual cycling lets you go anywhere from your lounge room.
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World without sport, and how to exercise at home
20/03/2020 Duration: 29minWill these times reshape sport as we've known it?
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Sport & religious freedom, women & motor sport, over-50s table tennis
13/03/2020 Duration: 29minHow are the major sports in Australia addressing the Government's proposed Religious Freedom Bill? Plus, improve your balance, concentration and reflexes - with table tennis!
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Fearless surfing, Indian women's cricket, women's sports injuries
06/03/2020 Duration: 29minIf you got your arm bitten off by a shark while you were surfing, would you - could you - go back in the ocean?
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How cool is this: cryotherapy. And, how to make a sporty kid.
28/02/2020 Duration: 29minDoes immersing yourself in extreme cold help with recovery from sport and exercise?