For several years the USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee has been arranging presentations that are given during national championship meets. Leading professionals provide information on various sports science and medicine topics.
The committee is interested in finding out what medical and scientific topics related to swimming, training, and health you are interested in hearing about.
Please post your requests and we will design upcoming presentations around the most popular topics.
Thanks for your input.
Jane Moore, MD
Chair, USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee
I think there have been some great suggestions and I don't have anything specific to add at this point though I'll probably think of some.
But I have a general comment: given that only a minority of USMS members compete (about one-third?) in meets, and probably only a subset of them is really deadly serious about their performance, I would probably favor topics that are of general interest to all our membership, not just topics relating to peak performances. (Of course, there is some overlap possible.)
For those not going to nationals, will the information be available by other means?
Good point. For the last two conventions, I've heard some good presentations by Jim Miller and others. It would be nice to have a spot on the site to archive all of these.
it would be interesting to see the effects of alcohol on recovery and peak training performance. And I don't mean beer relays.
I do!
I think there have been some great suggestions and I don't have anything specific to add at this point though I'll probably think of some.
But I have a general comment: given that only a minority of USMS members compete (about one-third?) in meets, and probably only a subset of them is really deadly serious about their performance, I would probably favor topics that are of general interest to all our membership, not just topics relating to peak performances. (Of course, there is some overlap possible.)
For those not going to nationals, will the information be available by other means?
Good point. For the last two conventions, I've heard some good presentations by Jim Miller and others. It would be nice to have a spot on the site to archive all of these.
it would be interesting to see the effects of alcohol on recovery and peak training performance. And I don't mean beer relays.
I do!
