Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

New NSCA Journal… are you kidding me?  I love reading the filler studies like this near the end of each issue.

The Impact of Electronic Mail Versus Print Delivery of an Exercise Program on Muscular Strength And Aerobic Capacity In People With Type 2 Diabetes

8 pages later…

Practical Applications: The results of the investigation suggest that clinicians can deliver a prescribed exercise program, either by e-mail or in print form, to significantly improve muscular strength and aerobic capacity in people with type 2 diabetes, and expect similar outcomes

This just proves the direction and intent of the current NSCA structure.  Away from sports and into clinical work with non sports related income revenues.

dbandre - 14 September 2008 02:06 AM

This just proves the direction and intent of the current NSCA structure.  Away from sports and into clinical work with non sports related income revenues.

I think it would be more appropriate to say “away from anything of any relevance whatsoever.“

I’m actually slightly surprised that there is no mention of a either a vibration platform or some obscure sport (curling, badminton, etc.) in the research topic.

I am not surprised anymore.  I stopped my student membership a couple of years ago, because they would let this type of garbage into print.  This belongs in the ACSM’s MSSE realm and even then I am not sure of it belonging there.  It was probably rejected by their editors and reviewers and put up for NSCA’s editors and reviewers of whom most of this research doesn’t fit there specialty backgrounds and if it does that’s a bad sign.  It’s clinical exercise physiology, so MSSE, JAP, JEP, etc… are appropriate journals for publication.

At best it’s a poster presentation at the ACSM convention.

I can handle the obscure sport research articles at least most members can relate a game of badminton to other court/racket games.

The sad thing is if this is filler?  How bad are the article submissions they are getting now and/or how bad are the editors?

“The Impact of Electronic Mail Versus Print Delivery of an Exercise Program on Muscular Strength And Aerobic Capacity In People With Type 2 Diabetes.“

The answer to this question is a matter of distance and altitude gain/loss.  In other words, does the walk to and from the mailbox generate greater gains in strength and aerobic capacity than the corresponding walk to and from the computer.  LOL