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Goals & Objectives

ASEP Goals

 These goals describe actions being taken by the ASEP National Office, Board of Directors, and Committees to increase membership, academic accreditation, board certification, and advancement of professional practice under the occupational title "Exercise Physiologist." Accomplishing these goals help current and future students, faculty, graduates, practitioners and the public. A few examples that support the ASEP mission statement are:

1. Maintain and update the ASEP.org website to facilitate professional membership, credentialling and public information pertaining to Exercise Physiology, Proactive Health, Exercise Medicine and Professionalization. Continue to grow ASEP in ways that bridge academics and professional practice.

2. Streamline and simplify the processes by which academic programs, both traditional and online, can become ASEP-Accredited. Support accredited programs with value added services for faculty and students. Sustain the free-access ASEP journals for research and professional practice.

3. Create and sustain the lifetime professional credential of "Board-Certified Exercise Physiologist" (EPC) and public endorsement for these professionals on the EPC Registry. Expand on this work to develop and evolve a standardized, outcome-based practice model of providing Exercise Medicine to a public Proactive Health Model.

4. Create and increase ASEP outreach through State Ambassadors and other partnerships to expand the understanding and acceptance of exercise physiologists' role in providing proactive health services to the public through preventative or rehabilitative analysis of physiological function and prescriptive exercise.

"Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." -- African proverb

ASEP Objectives
These objectives describe commitments each exercise physiologist can make in their own education and career work to stimulate improvement for all exercise physiologists.  It is helpful to recognize that changes in academia affect practitioners and practitioners affect public health.  This logic is representative of the way we can look at all ASEP goals and objectives, that individually they might seem trivial but taken altogether they have the power to unify and consolidate the whole exercise physiology profession. It builds on how YOU think, speak and show commitment.

  1. I support ASEP with my membership because it is uniquely of, for and by exercise physiologists.
  2. I support and encourage all exercise physiologists to consider re-prioritizing their academic and professional affiliations as an opportunity to support ASEP where they can apply their experience and abilities for the benefit of all exercise physiologists.
  3. I encourage all exercise physiologists to recognize and utilize the tools ASEP provides (academic accreditation, individual board-certification, public-facing professionalization) in their work while endorsing it to others in their scope of influence. 
  4. I support and encourage the ASEP-Accreditation of undergraduate and graduate education programs to create a standard educational result that lends itself to a standard professional practice used by individual practitioners who are uniformly endorsed to meet the diverse interests and career opportunities in exercise physiology. 
  5. I understand ASEP supports academic exercise physiologists' prerogative to research independently and am also in favor of the standardized curricula academicians teach to produce the highest quality exercise physiologist practitioner.
  6. I understand ASEP supports academic research and professional application of exercise physiology in proactive health promotion, disease prevention, rehabilitation, sport fitness and exercise training.
  7.  I support and promote the development and exchange of scientific information between ASEP and other professional organizations that affect the trajectory of opportunities for exercise physiologists.
  8. I understand, as an exercise physiologist and member of ASEP, I am invited to contribute to the processes that set agenda, determine direction, and guide decisions that contribute to the professionalization of exercise physiology.
  9. I perceive ASEP to be a dynamic and action-oriented group of exercise physiologists consolidating their knowledge and skills to advance the professional development of exercise physiologists.
  10. I sustain my ASEP membership and exert influence to increase visibility and enhance the image of the exercise physiology profession throughout the United States.
  11. I represent exercise physiologists, whose professional work is both clinical and non-clinical, and I help ensure that employers, the public, government agencies and legislators understand our work and the needs of the professional exercise physiologist.
  12. To the extent I have opportunity, I will participate in the development and implementation of policies and procedures that advance exercise physiology with ASEP goals, objectives and processes as a guide.
  13. I have made a commitment to quality and integrity in exercise physiology through adherence to the ASEP Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Practice. I encourage others to do the same when presented the opportunity to influence individuals, policies, or expectations of others. 
  14. I facilitate and promote positive public policy and professional, ethical behavior by supporting ongoing peer review and quality assurance programs such as ASEP-accreditation of academic exercise physiology programs and individual board-certification as coverall credentials.
  15. I support all efforts to expand funding of exercise physiology research, academic education and professional practice development everywhere, but recognize that if all current efforts were done under and through ASEP, it would be a force magnifier that would allow us to achieve our individual and group goals sooner and more efficiently.
  16. I will support ASEP with my membership. I will engage opportunities to advance my career with ASEP tools and support. I will support the profession with what I can do and create during my career. I will encourage other exercise physiologists do the same.