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Exercise against coronavirus

See how exercise can help you!

Two UIUC professor are helping people dealing with the coronavirus outbreak in China!

The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has become a global health emergency.

Dr. Weimo Zhu has interviewed Dr. Jeff Woods on “Should, and how can, exercise be done during a coronavirus outbreak?” The paper was already published in Journal of Sport Health and Science, and can also be downloaded here.

The promotion news for the interview article was viewed more than 33,200 times in China within a few days:

screenshot of phone showing Jeff Woods with Chinese textscreenshot of phone showing qr-code with Chinese text

Dr. Zhu also formed a team at UIUC consisting of graduate students, visiting professors and students and developd a book and exercise video entitled “Exercise against coronavirus”:

  • Dr. Weimo Zhu, UIUC
  • Heng LI, UIUC visiting scholar in Dr. Zhu’s lab
  • Zezhao Chen, UIUC, Dr. Zhu’s doctoral student
  • Xiong Qin, UIUC, Dr. Zhu’s doctoral student
  • Mengyi Wei, UIUC, Dr. Kim Graber’s doctoral student
  • Liwen Ju, UIUC visiting doctoral student in Dr. Zhu’s lab
  • Jingyuan Zhu, UIUC undergraduate student working in Dr. Zhu’s lab

The book and video (attached is the e-version of the book) had been published by People's Sports Press, the largest sport publisher in China and promoted by several national press and media in China. Below are the book cover and content illustrations:

book cover shows figure exercisingpage from book with photos of people exercising

Here are the video links of the exercise with and without oral instructions:

Without oral instruction

With oral instruction

In less than 2 days, millions of people in China have downloaded and viewed the book and videos (below is the screen shot on the numbers downloaded and viewed by February 17, 2020: 1,169,015 times!):

screen capture of phone showing statistics

Dr. Zhu’s contact information:

  • Weimo Zhu, Ph.D., Professor, FNAK, FACSM
  • Department of Kinesiology & Community Health
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 205 Freer Hall, MC-052
  • Urbana, IL 61801
  • Phone: (217) 333-7503
  • E-mail: weimozhu@illinois.edu