The risk that exercise physiologists will continue to make bad decisions is clearly linked to the uncertainty about the future. It seems that recycling of the old and tried is keeping the profession on the wrong track. Like new technology replacing old, useful machines, exercise physiologists must avoid the pitfalls of the present by accepting responsibility of leading their students into the 21st century. Our students need more certainty and control in their days after college. One way to realize change in the curriculum is by updating the course offerings.
Creativity is good, but course consistency and relevancy are better.
In short, those who believe that it is possible to create change look to images of a future toward which professionalism is discussed equally as often as creatine, strength building, running faster, or aerobics. Those who look to the future with a carefully crafted vision, such as ASEP has stated, believe that it is the sum of what a group's response should be. For certain, it is the sum of what ASEP is about. It gives ASEP members a reason for belonging. It was born from a sense that something is missing.