An Update on Fitness Licensure It’s time to update the CrossFit affiliate community on the ACSM, NSCA and USREPS’ schemes. This year the Russells’ Blog exposed an international conspiracy to defame, extort and criminalize CrossFit affiliates. Domestically, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) intend to criminalize the CrossFit affiliate model. This scheme is called licensure. ACSM and NSCA have joined the US Registry of Exercise Professionals (USREPS) to promote licensure. CrossFit Inc.’s competitors are lobbying the government to criminalize all fitness trainers […]

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Editor’s Note: Can strength and conditioning coaches trust the supplements at NSCA conferences? John Weatherly concludes the NSCA sponsor series this week by exposing the disguised steroids and false certifications associated with NSCA’s biggest supplement partners.  Let’s start out by setting the stage with points made in articles in this series: 1) MusclePharm is the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s (NSCA) lead sponsor for education and research. 2) MusclePharm was sued for claiming 40 grams of protein in a supplement when independent testing […]

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CrossFit Inc. and Dr. Tim Noakes have taken on Gatorade and its partners in exercise science. The topic: hydration. CrossFit hosted an international conference on Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia. Noakes went toe-to-toe with Gatorade’s spokesmen and even published a history of the creation of exercise associated hyponatremia (EAH occurs when athletes drink too much during exercise and dilute their blood sodium below healthy levels). An astute journalist could build a career uncovering the full magnitude of Gatorade-funded fraud, and the consequent carnage. Contact us and we’ll facilitate this. Yet […]

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