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2023: "Bite-Sized Sessions in Movement Science"
Virtual Conference
Friday, April 21, 2023
Conference Description
The New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine's Virtual Spring Conference was held on Friday, April 21, 2023. The single day meeting was entitled “Bite-Sized Sessions in Movement Science” and was available via live virtual format. The content was arranged by a collection of short tutorials, followed by rapid-fire sessions delivered by both students and professionals.
These sessions covered a range of disciplines related to movement science including sports nutrition, resistance training/muscle physiology, cardiovascular health/weight management, and injury prevention/therapeutic modalities. Program content is intended for exercise practitioners, researchers, faculty, students, and clinicians.
3.5 ACSM CECs
Objectives:
1. Explore current research in the fields of exercise science, sports nutrition, and sports medicine.
2. Appreciate unique considerations and characteristics that influence physical performance and recovery.
3. Identify best practices in optimizing physical performance and recovery.
Sponsor the Spring Conference!
NEACSM offers many opportunities for sponsorship throughout the year. These opportunities provide significant exposure to help market organizations' products and services within and beyond the NEACSM chapter. For the one-day virtual spring conference, we have two levels: Conference Partner and General Sponsor. For more information and to sponsor our conference, contact Sponsorship Committee co-chairs Dr. Cassandra Forsythe at cassandraf@ccsu.edu and Dr. Mark Hartman at mark_hartman@uri.edu.
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Previous Spring Conferences
2022 Spring Conference: Beyond FITT: Unique Considerations to Optimize Exercise Prescription - April 8, 2022
Virtual Conference
Description:
This single-day conference offered attendees an opportunity to learn from applied presentations, which explored unique approaches to help inform exercise prescription. The conference was delivered in a live virtual format and content was arranged in a manner that progresses from preparation, evaluation, application, and recovery. Program content is intended for exercise professionals, faculty, researchers, and students.
4 ACSM CECs
Speakers included Paul Mathew, Jeff Breckon, Kathleen Mellano, Chee-Hoi Leong, M. Jay Polsgrove, Hunter Bennett, Bruce Brazeal, Michelle Boland, and Eric D'Agati.
Objectives
1. Discuss psychological practices for enhancing exercise.
2. Apply assessment outcomes to program design.
3. Identify best practices in optimizing movement and recovery.
4. Explore current research in the field of exercise science and sports medicine.
5. Provide an opportunity for extensive professional dialogue.
2021 Spring Conference: Managing Physical Activity in the New Normal - April 23, 2021
Virtual Conference
Description:
This single-day conference focused on the negative effects of physical inactivity on health and how they relate to a rapidly changing work, research, and learning environment. Evidence-based methods and best practices were discussed to assist the Exercise Professional with combating physical inactivity, developing virtual and workplace wellness programming, and navigating research and education during the pandemic era and beyond. Program content is intended for exercise professionals, faculty, researchers, and students.
4 ACSM CECs
Speakers included Marc Hamilton, Daniel Freidenreich, Pedro Saint-Maurice, Amanda Zaleski, Talya Williams, Brad Roy, Jaci VanHeest, Melanna Cox, Christie Ward-Ritacco, Melissa Bopp, and Renee Rogers.
Objectives
1. Identify the negative effects of physical inactivity on health and physiology.
2. Describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic regarding new challenges in quantifying physical inactivity in research.
3. Discuss workplace wellness strategies in the new normal and best practices.
4. Provide tips and recommendations for students and faculty advisors regarding navigation of academic studies during these current times.
5. Identify methods and best practices for virtual or telehealth services that apply to exercise professionals.
6. Discuss virtual behavior modification strategies for the exercise professional and researcher.
CANCELLED: 2020 Spring Conference: Sex & Gender in Sports & Medicine, originally scheduled for March 27, 2020
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Description:
The New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell Physical Therapy and Kinesiology Department invite you to the Spring Conference. This year's program focuses on how sex and gender affect responses to exercise and nutrition interventions, disease and injury risk, biomechanics of running, and exercise performance.
5 ACSM CECs
Speakers include Abbie E. Smith-Ryan, PhD, CSC*D, FACSM, FNSCA, FISSN; Sarah Witkowski, PhD, FACSM; Joanna Harper, MS; Adam Tenforde, MD; and Irene Davis, PhD, PT, FACSM, FAPTA, FASB.
Objectives
1. Explore the modifying effect of sex on exercise and nutrition outcomes, including body composition, aerobic and anaerobic capacities, and disease risk.
2. Appreciate the differences between men and women in the role exercise plays in cardiovascular disease risk and cardiovascular health.
3. Learn about the controversy of transgender and intersex athlete inclusion in sport, current policy, endocrinology, and physical performance characteristics.
4. Compare the hormonal, nutritional, body composition, and exercise participation factors that affect risk for bone stress injuries in male and female athletes.
5. Evaluate gait mechanics that predispose male and female runners to injury and the ability of gait retraining to reduce risk.
2019 Spring Conference: Only the Strong - Brain Versus Brawn, April 26, 2019
Central Connecticut State University
Description:
The New England Chapter of the American College of Sport Medicine (NEACSM), in collaboration with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Learn from nationally and internationally recognized researchers, content experts, and strength & conditioning professionals as they present and discuss various topics relating strength to cognitive function, endurance performance, muscle hypertrophy, mental toughness, and leadership which can be practically applied to strength athletes, academic students, as well as the general population. The curriculum is developed to appeal to NEACSM and NSCA members as well as any student or professional who practices in exercise science, nutrition, strength & conditioning, and other allied health fields.
5 ACSM CECs/0.5 NSCA CEUs
Speakers include Avery Faigenbaum, EdD, FACSM, FNSCA; Alex Hutchinson, PhD; Matthew Nein, CSCS, RSCC*D; Jay Merlino, MS, CSCS, USAW; and Brad Schoenfeld, PhD, CSCS, CSPS, FNSCA.
Objectives:
1. Understand how strength influences and relates to cognitive function and academic performance.
2. Explore the interplay between the brain and the body and their relationship to limiting human performance from a 100-m sprint to the marathon.
3. Identify strategies to assess and develop mental toughness as well as apply it to your training and coaching.
4. Understand how to utilize effective leadership strategies from the perspectives of sports coaching, strength and conditioning, and the military.
5. Identify a multitude of training strategies to maximize skeletal muscle hypertrophy by manipulating resistance training variables.
2018 Spring Conference: EAT, LIFT, BUILD: Nutrition Strategies for the Strength Athlete, April 20, 2018
Description:
The New England Chapter of the American College of Sport Medicine (NEACSM), in collaboration with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), proudly presents EAT, LIFT, BUILD: Nutrition Strategies for the Strength Athlete. Learn from nationally and internationally recognized researchers, content experts, and medical professionals as they present and discuss various nutritional strategies and their practical application for strength athletes. The curriculum is developed to appeal to NEACSM and NSCA members as well as any student or professional who practices in exercise science, nutrition, strength and conditioning, and other allied health fields.
Speakers include Adam Feit, MS, CSCS, *D, RSCC; Stuart M. Phillips, PhD; Eric S. Rawson, PhD, FACSM, CSCS; Marie A. Spano, MS, RD, CSCS, CSSD; Nancy Rodriguez, PhD, RD, CSSD, FACSM; and Darryn S. Willoughby, PhD, CSCS, FACSM.
Objectives:
1. Understand how protein supports muscle health across the life span of strength athletes.
2. Understand the effectiveness, mechanisms of action, strategies for use, and safety of numerous sport supplements for increasing muscle mass and decreasing body fat.
3. Delineate myths versus scientific evidence of creatine supplementation for increasing muscle mass and strength in athletes.
4. Identify the key nutrients to be ingested before, during, and after resistance training and understand the strategy of nutrient timing for performance and adaptation maximization.
5. Recognize the nutrition strategies and understand the unique techniques that are implemented by sport dietitians for college and professional level strength athletes.