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ACSM President NiCole Keith Featured on CBS Sunday Morning

Jane Pauley recently interviewed ACSM President NiCole Keith, Ph.D., FACSM, during CBS Sunday Morning as part of a segment on housecleaning during the pandemic. In the interview, Dr. Keith explains why cleaning is good for both physical and mental health. ACSM Fellow Heather Chambliss, Ph.D., is also briefly interviewed.

Watch Interview at CBSNews.com

 

High-Impact Training Can Build Bone in Older Women

In this piece, ACSM Fellow Belinda Beck, Ph.D., shares insights on the research she presented as part of ACSM’s 2020 Virtual Experience.

READ MORE at Medscape

A Big Data Approach to Predicting Your Marathon Pace

This article discusses a new study on using training data to predict marathon pace that was published in the May 2020 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise®.

READ MORE at OutsideOnline

 

Handgrip Strength Could Be a Simple Way to Predict Fall Risk

This article highlights Silvia Neri’s accepted abstract for the 2020 ACSM Annual Meeting, which is now an ePoster for the ACSM 2020 Virtual Experience.

READ MORE at Medscape

 

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