Abstract
A few years ago, a colleague of mine wrote an opinion piece on the
fact he believed we are not developing specialists in exercise science,
only generalists. Therefore, a decline in the advancement of the field
has begun signaling a less than productive period for the area of study.
For a while now, I have pondered this point of view and I cannot
disagree with it on one level. Having our undergraduate and graduate
students dive as deep into the cardiovascular physiology or #biomechanics as they can is a wonderful opportunity for those students (and faculty)
to grow intellectually and hopefully expand the current body of
knowledge as some like to say. On the other hand, an absolute pioneer and leader of the vanguard
currently sweeping #human fitness performance has said that exercise
science has no tangible place in the application of training and athlete
development. At first, I was offended by this notion. What is he
talking about? I have been in the #exercise science in one form or
fashion for almost thirty years and find the information I have acquired
extremely useful in athlete development, coach development and student
development. Just as I had done with my colleague's words, I suppressed
my ego and let things percolate. My opinion that eventually developed
was of agreement. He was correct. The current structure of most exercise
science programs does not look to guide the student's in the
development of applicable skills to move human performance forward. We
are specializing in not specializing and that is causing a stagnation in
a form of isolation. We have limited ourselves. Limited to exercise
physiology, biomechanics, #kinesiology and other specialized classes
that, more often than not, are silos - boxes to be checked for a student
to qualify for graduation. We are not developing students that see the
human machine as it is, integrated.
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