BooneThink

My intention is to tell
of a new exercise physiology.
The sports medicine folks and everyone else,
specialists and trainers alike,
All disappear,
And we, the EPCs,
Become visible.

The power of wisdom is power! But, first, what is wisdom? Maybe it is simple as “stop digging when you find yourself in a hole.” New thinking is always a historical event. If one does not believe that the birth of new ideas is possible, why suffer from speaking out? But, if one could affirm a new idea, perhaps, then sports medicine could be suspended in a timeless existence never to influence exercise physiologists again. If only, there was just one person with a new idea, something different from the countless statements of fussy thinking.

I’m compelled to state that you should not hold your breath looking for that one person with insight and determination to think afresh. Instead, the empire continues unabated with its usual cruel and oppressive functions. The cult of sports medicine personalities is a politically driven life line of decades of failed rhetoric. The imposing reality of exercise science as if there were exercise scientists and/or actually real jobs in the public sector where exercise science graduates are hired isn’t laughable. It is sad, hurtful to students and their parents, and it should be a crime. Remarkably, at least the present time, it isn’t. Personally, I believe it will be at some point in the future. The common culture of education isn’t just to educate, but to set the stage for graduates to work, to make a living, and to be in position to pay back tuition loans and still financially survive.

Even from this brief sketch it is evident that the power of an education is not linked to misinformation and/or a certification that isn’t part of the complete identity that communicates professionalism. Thus, when you decide to go to college, do not play around with the academic major. Pick a major that has the greatest potential for being successful. Do not allow yourself to be ambushed by those who keep telling you the same old stories. Honestly, they will tell you that exercise science is exercise physiology. It isn’t. They will tell you that there are a lot of clinical exercise physiology jobs and you should join a clinical exercise physiology association. This is absolutely untrue, and it borders on hypocrisy, if not some kind of morbid fantasy.

My point here is that the common everyday social ritual of the sports medicine puppet is just that “common.” Each one approaches every student with the same line. For example, if you like strength training, get a strength and conditioning certification and work as a strength and conditioning trainer. Hello, have you looked as to how many such jobs actually exist? To the college graduate who will emerge just long enough to call his or her parents to tell them “there are no jobs and I would like to come home” — “help, please help me, please help me.”

Yet, on the other hand, “being successful” is all about thinking straight and standing up for one’s rights. It has something to do with critical thinking, that is, the ability to think clearly and objectively. But, more than anything, it is all about understanding the symptoms of failed rhetoric. Once stupid thinking is understood for what it is, one can be beyond the vomiting and nausea of being a loser for so many years. In conclusion, it is always good to recall as William Bolitho said, “The adventurer is within us….”

Being successful means thinking, and I mean seriously taking the time to think and uncover the facts, then face the reality of what you find, and finally “stay the course” of something better.