I'd be curious to know how/if the ACSM's assessment methods differ from the NSCA.
Shall we make that Kevin's first assigment?
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Saweet. Dangit, why'd I get a business degree. It would've paid off better if I got a degree that actually required me to read stuff.
Nah. You read TONS of stuff to get a humanities degree, and trust me when I say it is NOT the path to financial wealth.
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I like Kuri's idea of Kevin comparing the NSCA and ACSM.
Kevin, when can you have your report completed and turned in to us?
That's really mean of you guys to give him homework on his birthday!
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Wow I'm jealous of you getting to read good text books. In my health education class, the text book is a joke.
In the weight lifting section, we are told to stay away from squats and to never go into a deep knee bend on any other leg excersise. Also, when it talks about designing a program, we are told to work our "thighs(both front and back), chest, arms, abdominals and calves" Yep. It's off more value for you to work your calves then ANYTHING ON YOUR BACK. It's a good thing I paid so much to learn these pearls of wisdom. Also, "using machines is much more benifical then free weights, as the machines are designed by experts"! How is this being taught?
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Wow I'm jealous of you getting to read good text books. In my health education class, the text book is a joke.
In the weight lifting section, we are told to stay away from squats and to never go into a deep knee bend on any other leg excersise. Also, when it talks about designing a program, we are told to work our "thighs(both front and back), chest, arms, abdominals and calves" Yep. It's off more value for you to work your calves then ANYTHING ON YOUR BACK. It's a good thing I paid so much to learn these pearls of wisdom. Also, "using machines is much more benifical then free weights, as the machines are designed by experts"! How is this being taught?
That's some scary stuff right there. I think I've met the author.
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Wow I'm jealous of you getting to read good text books. In my health education class, the text book is a joke.
In the weight lifting section, we are told to stay away from squats and to never go into a deep knee bend on any other leg excersise. Also, when it talks about designing a program, we are told to work our "thighs(both front and back), chest, arms, abdominals and calves" Yep. It's off more value for you to work your calves then ANYTHING ON YOUR BACK. It's a good thing I paid so much to learn these pearls of wisdom. Also, "using machines is much more benifical then free weights, as the machines are designed by experts"! How is this being taught?
You should bring this to the attention of the Department Chair or soemthing...I don't know.
It gets better...
The section in our text book about weight lifting was adding into our text book. The orginal text book just talked about health, wellness, disease, STI'S, bla bla bla, there was nothing on physical fitness. So, our prof looked for a well done section on basic weight lifting procedure from another text book that lacked the health and wellness crap, found this P.O.S and had it inserted into the back of our books.
And most of you guessed correctly, he is quite a bit over weight!
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I picked up my books recently and the essentials is among the list, however I didn't take the ASCM class simultaneously for fear they would be just different enough that I would mix them up...I'm interested to hear for certain
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I'm using that text book in my exercise prescription course. Or one similar anyway, I haven't bought it yet. Either way it's something from the NSCA.
By the way, I just found out one of my teachers for ex prescription (there are two) was a student of Stuart McGill's over at Waterloo. Cool, huh?
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