It is a phenomenon of the time. What ASEP is trying to accomplish is therefore no different than change itself. Objectives, assumptions, and mind-sets some years ago just isn't the language of the exercise physiologist today. Values are different. People are different.
Objectives are different.
The profession is different, and hence organizations must be different. We can no longer work under the older basic assumptions that we have for years in sports medicine. Our very existence is a function of our durability, but even that is subject to exhaustion if business as usual doesn't change. From an ASEP perspective, part of the change is in rethinking the profession and in the anticipation of threats to commanding and managing respect. The age of one organization that represents many types of professionals including exercise physiologists is over.