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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Reaburn tackles overtraining issue 

Published on 04 November, 2008 

CQUniversity's Peter Reaburn recently tackled the issue of whether it is possible to overtrain.

He was addressing an audience consisting of the medical, allied health and strength and conditioning staff of Australia's National Rugby League (NRL) teams.

PhotoID:6533, Associate Professor Peter Reaburn
Associate Professor Peter Reaburn

The Department of Health and Human Performance academic had been invited by the NRL to deliver a presentation at the '100 Years of Sports Medicine in Rugby League' event, held alongside the Centenary of Rugby League and the World Cup of Rugby League in Australia.

Associate Professor Reaburn spoke about accounting for adaptation, avoiding fatigue and the calculating the optimum time between bouts of training for well-planned training regimes.

He explained how there was a zone of enhanced performance falling between undertraining and overtraining.

"Overtraining can be caused by inadequate recovery, too much high-intensity training, sudden increases in training load, inadequate nutrition or stressors," he said.

"Good athletes train hard but smart athletes also recover harder."