Useful Real-World Certification
Providers
Collegiate
Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association - A good model for
fitness professional certification through mentorship
USA
Weightlifting - You can get a professional certification for coaching
weight training through them
USA
Track and Field - You can get a professional certification for coaching
running and other track events through them
USA
Cycling - You can get a professional certification for coaching cycling
through them
The
Aasgaard Company - Provides a unique Basic Barbell Training certification
hailed as the best in the industry
CrossFit
- Provides a spectrum of exercise and exercise related certifications -
all can be useful, some are exceptional
Search Tools
National
Library of Medicine Search - If you don't search and read you'll never
learn
Google
Scholar
Scirus
Interesting
or Free Journals
The
Chronicle of Higher Education - Need a job in academia? The most comprehensive
listing available plus relevent articles.
Journal
of Exercise Physiology
PubMed
Central - A free digital archive of science journal articles from the
National Institutes for Health
People
Mark
Rippetoe - OK. I'm biased. We work on things together. Doesn't matter,
Mark is brilliant and funny as hell.
Kary
Mullis, PhD - The only Nobel Laureate I've ever had the pleasure to
hang out with. Great stories. Go listen to him lecture!
Riven
Phoenix - He has put out probably the coolest and most useful art instructional
DVD sets ever.
Chris
Ross, DVM, PhD - My doctoral mentor.
Bob
Kraemer, EdD - Exercise endocrinology question? Call him.
Roger
Fedde, PhD - A great model of an effective university teacher.
Tim
Musch, PhD - Got a question about all things cardiovascular? Talk to
him.
David
Poole, PhD - Got a question about all things pulmonary? Talk to him.
David
Dzewaltowski, PhD - OK ... He's an exercise psychologist, but
he's one of the best.
Robert
Robergs, PhD - A great resource person for aerobic exercise physiology.
Check out his site.
Mike
Stone, PhD - One of the two very preimminent strength researchers in
the US.
Kyle
Pierce, EdD - Likely the most likeable professor in existance.
Chuck
Layne, PhD - Researcher and faculty member extraordiare. Elvis lives!?
Kathy
Grunewald, PhD, RD, LD - She is the Exercise and Nutrition Guru.
Karla
Kubitz, PhD - A protoge of Dan Landers, she's one of my favorite sport
psychologists.
Frank
Wyatt, EdD - A bike roadie, but he is still an OK and useful science
guy
