I'm going, but honestly, I'm not too excited about this year's presentations...
i agree. the presentations seem to be repeats and rather weak. the only one that i'm somewhat interested in seeing is Juan Carlos Santana's Bodyweight Training. other than that, it might just site seeing around the old capital....
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I live in DC, but Im not going. I will say to try out the Werksan Oly equipment at one of the booths. I got to try this past week at Oly camp and its new line of equipment is bad ass.
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It was a bit hard to see or hear anything from where I was sitting.
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i didn't find anything earth shattering. since this was the first one i went to, and talking to a few other people, they had a feeling that the NSCA must of had a hard time getting people to present as there were a lot more 2 hour sessions than in the past.
Len Kravitz gave a pretty good talk on controversies. he was actually really interesting to listen to as he had a dynamic way of speaking that kept you interested.
probably the best session i went to though was Gray Cook's. that was a great presentation and something i think i was able to take away from the conference and be able to implement more into what i do.
other than that, i didn't get to either of the dinners. thursday night, decided to go up to Baltimore with someone i met at the conference to catch the Baltimore/Texas game at Camden Yards (great stadium! first time i'd been there) and then Friday night walked my ass off to check out some of the new memorials they put up since the last time i was there (WWII, Korean, etc).
what did you think BP?
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Hey! How come you guys didn't introduce yourselves there?
It wasn't like I was hiding out or something. I gave one of my books to Len Kravitz right before his presentation, and he razzed me from the podium. I also stood up to ask questions at three presentations -- Dave Pearson's on periodization, Jay Hoffman's on steroids and health, and Bill Kraemer's on how steroids work.
I thought the conference was okay -- I've been to more than I can remember, and I'd put this one in the upper 50% in terms of quality of lectures -- but it sure would've been better if I'd been able to meet and hang out with some JPers.
Hey! How come you guys didn't introduce yourselves there?
It wasn't like I was hiding out or something. I gave one of my books to Len Kravitz right before his presentation, and he razzed me from the podium. I also stood up to ask questions at three presentations -- Dave Pearson's on periodization, Jay Hoffman's on steroids and health, and Bill Kraemer's on how steroids work.
I thought the conference was okay -- I've been to more than I can remember, and I'd put this one in the upper 50% in terms of quality of lectures -- but it sure would've been better if I'd been able to meet and hang out with some JPers.
Lou, ya, sorry about that. i saw you from across the room a few times at a couple of those sessions and was standing right next to you at one point but you were in the middle of a conversation with John Graham one time and a couple other people a few other times and i just hate walking up to people and interupting them.
and boy, you're right about it being a conference of "your people." i've never seen so many shaved heads in one conference room as i did during those 2 days....
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Hey! How come you guys didn't introduce yourselves there?
It wasn't like I was hiding out or something. I gave one of my books to Len Kravitz right before his presentation, and he razzed me from the podium. I also stood up to ask questions at three presentations -- Dave Pearson's on periodization, Jay Hoffman's on steroids and health, and Bill Kraemer's on how steroids work.
I thought the conference was okay -- I've been to more than I can remember, and I'd put this one in the upper 50% in terms of quality of lectures -- but it sure would've been better if I'd been able to meet and hang out with some JPers.
D'oh! I went to the Hoffman presentation! How the hell did I miss you??? Dammit!
All in all, I wasn't too impressed, in all honesty. There was very little "new" information there, and many of the presentations ended up being about the same material (and often, contradictory!). I agree that Gray Cook's presentation was probably the standout, although the presentation on post-rehab shoulder training by Panariello was outstanding, and I enjoyed Dr. Haff's discussion of periodization for the advanced athlete, as well as Page's elastic band training and Seebohar's nutritional periodization.
Personally, I thought that the worst presentation of the weekend was Dr. Kravitz's presentation actually: there was nothing interesting to me about his topics (I'd heard it all before), and he was a little, well, crazy! Although it was entertaining to see him running around the stage like a crackhead looking for a fix at first, eventually it just weirded me out...Dr. Hoffman's steroids controversy presentation was a little too over the top for me, and seemed to completely contradict what was presented in the other steroid presentation by Kraemer and the others (although I didn't actually go to that one: I gathered that from the notes). In a nutshell, to me his talk went something like this: "We have this magical pixy-dust called vitamin steroids that can make you stronger and more athletic, and it has no side-effects because everything that you hear about it is basically overblown or a scare-tactic...but you can't use it, because Uncle Sam says so, even though there's no basis for not using it. Oh yeah: it might give you tits or something. Any questions?"
Bommarito's Core development lecture was two hours of torn ACLS, patellofemoral injuries, medial epicondylitus and shoulder impingements all disguised as "functional ab and stability training" exercises, although there were a few good ones sprinkled in there. Of course, just about the entire lecture contradicted what had just been presented by Haff and McBride the day before (which was also fairly uninteresting, IMO), anyway...
The rest of the weekend's presentations that I saw were average. I missed a few good ones, apparently, but I can always read the powerpoint, I guess.
i saw you from across the room a few times at a couple of those sessions and was standing right next to you at one point but you were in the middle of a conversation with John Graham one time and a couple other people a few other times and i just hate walking up to people and interupting them.
Next time, please interrupt.
I'm really sorry we were in the same place and didn't get a chance to meet, much less have a beer and chat. I hate to miss an opportunity to meet someone from the JP Fitness community.
I guess it's my fault for not checking out this forum right before the conference and learning that you guys were attending. Then we could've made plans. My bad.
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went to the Hoffman presentation! How the hell did I miss you???
Bipennate, I think I asked the first question. Hoffman had said something about how athletes are always going to supplement with something, and if you encourage them to use legal supps they won't feel they have to turn to illegal ergogenics like Vitamin S.
I can't remember how I phrased the question, but I think I was trying to get him to elaborate on how that could be done, since there's so much negative pressure put on kids not to use anything stronger than a vitamin.
Other than that, I don't think we attended any of the same ones.
I didn't think Dr. Kraemer contradicted Dr. Hoffman. Mike Boyle (who presented shortly after Kraemer) had some interesting data showing that fewer kids are using steroids today than just a few years ago. He said these new numbers had just come out, and I don't think anyone in the room had seen them before. I know I hadn't.
Let's make a resolution right now: If we all go to NSCA next year in Atlanta, we'll get together for a beer. Or two ...
Also, I'm probably going to the ISSN conference in Las Vegas next June. So if anyone goes to that, I hope we can meet up.
anyone else going to the NSCA conference next week?
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