Attn NSCA Members!!

Tomorrow is the last day to vote for a new NSCA President!

Please go here and vote for John Graham:

www.nsca-lift.org/elections

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My previous blog post:

It struck me this weekend that the membership of the NSCA (the National Strength and Conditioning Association) is made up overwhelmingly of practitioners - strength coaches, personal trainers, therapists, athletic trainers and gym owners.

Researchers have made up somewhere around a little under 1% of the membership.

However - these same researchers have made up close to 60% of the Presidents of the NSCA. In other words - the NSCA President is most of the time representative of the smallest population of the membership.

Does that seem like a disconnect to you? It does to me.

Which is why I am excited that my friend and co-speaker on the Perform Better tour - John Graham is running for NSCA presidency this year. He's the only practitioner running btw...

John is a coach. A practitioner. He's in the gym training clients and teams daily.
He recognizes the challenges that the rest of us in the field face on a daily basis. Something that I'm not sure researchers understand as they have their own challenges.

But in an organization made up overwhelmingly of "in the trenches" practitioners -- shouldn't we have an "in the trenches" practitioner representing us as opposed to another researcher? Shouldn't the direction of the organization be determined by the majority of it's members, as opposed to 1% of it's membership ?

If you are an NSCA member - I urge you to vote for John Graham for NSCA President in the upcoming NSCA elections.

Vote here for NSCA President:

www.nsca-lift.org/elections

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