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Originally Posted by anklebreaker
davet,
I'd like to hear about NASM v. CSCS
Well, for one, CSCS is far out of my reach since I do not have a bachelor's in sports medicine or Chiropracy, although I don't see how much an O.D. is going to be pertinent here, although they are good with anatomy, form function, etc. However, they seem to focus on debilitated, and or group athletics.
But it is good to know that someone who cut up a human bieng may be comforting.
Looking at the web-site shows me that they are more likely to pigeon-hole the CPT into learning very specific things, ie pilates, yogo therapy, etc, and this is where I see it falls short. Also, I don't see any sort of offered work-shops for anyone interested in teaching weight-training. I would not trust anyone that has learned lifting techniques from a book or a lifting video. I would expect this person to be able to lift by themselves, and feel the form of the lift so they can identify the inherent problems.
I would NOT assume that this person has been through any sort of training from their community college, and especially not Chiropractic school.
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I would feel perfectly safe using NASM practitioner, because they have a ton of hands-on classes, and have a far more focused cirriculum than CSCS. For example they offer weight training work-shops, and then after that they offer continuing education in many different fields depending on where you want to go in your career.
For example, one can go into handy-capped, or athletic, or CT. They also get a very thorough knowlege of all the facets of whatever they are learning, and they also give a 800 (approx) book that gives a great foundation for PT.
As for continuing education, they do not acknowledge any out-side sources, especially the on-line continuing education sites, and most of their continuation classes are hands-on. The classes that I have seen focus on active stretching, body-building, etc, and that is where I am planning to continue.
They also focus on movement, cardio, etc. I think it is not even close, tbh.