2009 Agenda for Interest Group Meeting

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING SPECIALTIES INTEREST GROUP MEETING
2009 ACSM Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
Thursday, May 28th - 5:45pm – 7:15pm
Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Room: 6A

1) Welcome, introductions, announcements
2) Award presentation and brief overview of research by our 2009 Strength & Conditioning Graduate Student Research Award Winner - Ashley A. Walter
3) Informal discussions in smaller groups led by facilitators in the following areas:
* Strength & Power Measurement Issues – Larry Weiss, Lee Brown, and Loren Chiu
* Clinical Applications of Nutritional Supplements – Joel Cramer
* Resistance Training for Health Maintenance & Well-Being – Gary Hunter
* Resistance Training for Rehabilitation and as an Intervention for Disease – John McCarthy, Wes Dudgeon, and Tim Scheett

Goals for these group discussions include: 1) exploring and developing ideas for one or more session proposals for the 2010 Annual Conference in Baltimore; 2) discussing research ideas, techniques, recent findings, and gaps in field; 3) facilitating possible collaborations; and 4) providing an opportunity for students and all others to get to know some of our experts.

Listing of 2009 ACSM Strength & Conditioning Presentations at Annual Meeting

Link to document: http://www.scribd.com/full/15593232?access_key=key-21ndxcr3ysivfv6hwt0

Thanks to Glen Fincher for compiling this list.

ACSM 2009

We hope to see you in Seattle at the Strength and Conditioning SIG meeting. When the date and room info are finalized, it will be posted here. Also, we will be posting S&C related abstracts here shortly.

ACSM Strength and Conditioning Abstracts 2008

updated on 5/23
Updated on 5/21
Updated on 5/20

Thanks to Glen Fincher for taking the time to go through the ACSM conference preview and finding abstracts of interest to the S&C interest group. It is available as a pdf at this link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3079067/ACSM-Strength-and-Conditioning-Abstracts-2008

A short version with the body of the abstract removed (just titles, times, and authors left) can be found here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3079049/ACSM-Strength-and-Conditioning-Abstracts-2008-short

If you think one has been missed, let me know and I will update the files.

Joe Weir

Welcome

Welcome. This "blog" site serves to provide a way to get information to members of ACSM who are part of the "STRENGTH & CONDITIONING SPECIALTIES INTEREST GROUP". Dr. John McCarthy (Univ of Alabama-Birmingham) is the chair of this group, and he has provided the following information for those who will be attending the 2008 ACSM conference in Indianapolis.

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING SPECIALTIES INTEREST GROUP MEETING
2008 ACSM Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN
Wednesday, May 28th - 5:45pm – 7:15pm
Indiana Convention Center, Room: Sagamore 2

You are encouraged to join us at our annual interest group meeting. This is your opportunity to network with researchers, educators, and students in our area, express your ideas about next year’s annual meeting program, and learn more about current ACSM activities in strength and conditioning.

Agenda Outline:

5:45pm – Welcome, Announcements, New Business
--Introductions
--NSCA-ACSM Symposium Proposal for 2009
--Call for presentation proposals for 2009 Meeting:
--Symposia
--Tutorial Lectures
--New Business:
--Strength & Conditioning Graduate Student Research Award
--Strength & Conditioning Interest Group Blog Website
--Strength & Conditioning Related Sessions for 2008 Conference
--Other

~6:05pm - Presentation of "Update on Research Relative to the ACSM Position Stand on Progression Models in Resistance Training” by Dr. Brent Alvar (Arizona State University).


We hope to see you in Indy.