Roundtable Discussion

Abstract

Neuromuscular Laboratory Appalachian State University Roundtable Editor: G. Gregory Haff, PhD, CSCS, is an assistant professor in the Health, Leisure, and Exercise Science Department at Appalachian State University. He is the current director of the ASU Neuromuscular Laboratory Committee. He received his PhD from the University of Kansas after mentoring under Mike Stone at Appalachian State University where he received his M.S. He is a member of the NSCA's Research Committee and the USA Weightlifting's Sport Science and Sports Medicine Committees. Participants: Ralph N. Carpinelli, EdD, teaches in the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Human Performance Science at Adelphi University, NY. He received a Master's degree (M.A.) in exercise physiology from Adelphi University. Additionally, he earned a Master's (Ed.M.) and doctorate degrees (Ed.D.) in applied physiology from Columbia University. Everett Harman, PhD CSCS, is a research physiologist and head of the biomechanics laboratory at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Nat-ick, Massachusetts, where he has conducted several studies in human performance, strength training, and physical conditioning. He has served the NSCA as Vice President for Research, Associate Editor of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, and author of 3 chapters in the latest edition of the textbook “Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning”. Mike Stone, PhD, is currently a professor of Sports Science at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He was previously a professor of Exercise Science at Appalachian State University. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Florida State University, he has worked as a professor at Louisiana State University and Auburn University. His primary research interests concern the physiological and performance adaptations to strength and power training. Dan Wathen, ATC, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, has been head athletic trainer and Strength & Conditioning Supervisor at Youngstown State University since 1976. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and his master's degree from Eastern Kentucky University. In 1989 he was named NSCA Strength Coach of the Year and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from NSCA in 1996. He is immediate past president of the NSCA.