Greetings from ACSM! Just waiting to fly back home soon and wanted to drop some random notes. I will have more updates coming in the next few weeks as I get threw over 40 pages of notes. Excellent information presented!

Here they are random, rapid fire style. More details soon
Inspiration Muscle Training

• May work really really well. Poster from highly competitive cross country runners showed a shaving of 40 seconds off 5km times!! That is insane!

Central Pattern Generation

• May be located in the spinal cord! The basic program for gait appears to be there too. Huge implications for spinal cord injury patients.
• Gait has a normal variability to it on each step, we need to replicate this to obtain a normal gait again in rehab areas
• Injuries will alter your gait (I see that all the time)
• Interlimb coordination more important than INTRAlimb coordination
• Rats with full spinal cord cut at around the top of the lumbar area can walk sideways and backwards on a treadmill on 2 legs with body weight support. No input from the brain–must be a FEED FORWARD mechanism on some level

Central vs Peripheral Fatigue

• Studies, posters point to some of each
• BCAAs don’t seems to decrease central fatigue (although tyrosine seems to work)

Brain and Cognition and Exercise

• Brain will adapt by increasing neurons
• Brain actually increases in size and weight!! (Up to a limit)
• Enriched environment is important, not just exercise—new movements, use of visual system
• Exercise has an anti-depressant activity

Creatine

• New mechanisms–potential cognition and ergogenic benefits
• Full details soon

Random Tidbits

• Vit D RDA most likely to increase dramatically soon
• Women athletes should probably have ferritin iron test and Vit D test done
• Talk by top protein researchers on protein and exercise–more info soon
• Beta Alanine seems to work great in elite wrestlers (source–conversation on unpublished work)
• NSAIDS and training may NOT interfere with each other

More soon!
Any questions in the meantime, post them here
Mike