Learning to Adapt to Your Own Form
Green and Eleffers wrote in their book: The 48 Laws of Power, “Rely too much on other people’s ideas and you end up taking a form not of your own making.” I’ve read the sentence many times. It should be a reminder to every exercise physiologist to stop relying so much on sports medicine. Too many colleagues have taken a form not of their own. For this reason it makes sense to rethink what is necessary to create our own form as exercise physiologists. After all, everyone is said to admire boldness. Exercise physiologists must think of themselves destined for great things in healthcare. This is why they must do their own thing. This is why the ASEP leaders have the power to produce changes in exercise physiology. They refuse to conform to the inertia of sports medicine. They understand that the downfall of the sports medicine leaders is traced to their losing contact with the roots and identifiability of exercise physiologists. There is plenty of evidence that exercise physiologists are constantly bombarded by attempts to influence the way they think, feel, and act. Our senses are assaulted through flyers and web sites designed to promote the thinking of fitness professionals over exercise physiologists. Academic gatekeepers try to influence their students to earn fitness and personal trainer certifications. Some have come to believe such information is factual. They do not understand the many faces of persausion. Many ASEP exercise physiologists believe that students need to know that there are options. They believe students must have the freedom to choose and the freedom to adapt to their own form. This is why ASEP educators believe that it is important to teach students “how” to think” and not “what” to think, to encourage students to learn more about the profession of exercise physiology, and to learn how to evaluate what they hear and read rather than accept someone’s definition of exercise physiology.