{"id":5279,"date":"2020-02-19T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2020-02-25T02:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T07:04:32","slug":"acsm-announces-strategic-partnership-with-usa-weightlifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/acsm-announces-strategic-partnership-with-usa-weightlifting\/","title":{"rendered":"ACSM Announces Strategic Partnership with USA Weightlifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-300x88.png\" alt=\"American College of Sports Medicine\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-300x88.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-200x59.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-800x236.png 800w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine.png 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>American College of Sports Medicine<\/p>\n<p><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong> &#8211; The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has announced a new partnership with USA Weightlifting (USAW), the sole governing and coaching certification body for weightlifting in the United States. The agreement significantly expands the opportunities for professional growth of ACSM and USAW, their members and certified professionals in the health fitness industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSA Weightlifting shares our commitment to provide top-notch training experiences and career support for members,\u201d said ACSM CEO Kristin Belleson. \u201cTogether, ACSM and USAW will be better positioned to use education and application to meet mutual goals of improving wellness and performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the partnership, ACSM members and certified professionals will have access to USAW\u2019s industry-leading weightlifting courses and coaching resources. USAW will also become an approved provider of continuing education for in-person trainings and ACSM\u2019s online learning platform. The most trusted resource for weightlifting knowledge and education, USAW has offered science-based programming and hands-on learning focused technique, coaching and programming for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSA Weightlifting is thrilled to partner with the American College of Sports Medicine. We look forward to joining forces to educate strength sport enthusiasts and the medical professionals that care for them,\u201d said Dr. Anna Swisher, USA Weightlifting coaching education manager. \u201cPart of our mission is to spread the message about the benefits of the Olympic lifts for the body, and we can\u2019t think of a better partner than ACSM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Access to USAW courses will expand ACSM members and certified professionals\u2019 ability to safely and effectively teach weightlifting technique, assess movement through motor learning, biomechanics, effective coaching and exercise programming. USAW will have a presence at ACSM\u2019s International Health &#038; Fitness Summit, select regional chapter meetings and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong> &#8211; The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has announced a new partnership with USA Weightlifting (USAW), the sole governing and coaching certification body for weightlifting in the United States. The agreement significantly expands the opportunities for professional growth of ACSM and USAW, their members and certified professionals in the health fitness industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[43,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5280,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions\/5280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}