Ep. 227 - Is Formal Education Worth it? (MASScast 3 ft. Lauren Colenso-Semple)

Iron Culture presented by MASS

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Let’s face it, going to school isn’t cheap. Moreso, you can learn almost anything online that you can learn in school. So is it worth it? How about for personal trainers? If it is worth it, for who and when? We’re joined on MASScast 3 by Lauren Colenso-Semple who is nearly finished with her PhD. Not only does she share her valuable perspective, but she also reviews some interesting new research on women’s rugby coaches, many of whom - despite holding a bachelor's or master's degree - don’t see the value in staying up with research, and prefer to get continued education from social media. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the same coaches also have some shocking misconceptions about female physiology…

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00:00 Welcoming Lauren back as a host of Iron Culture??!!

09:10 Continued education of coaches, trainers, and practitioners

Nolan 2023 ‘There’s a perfect way to do things, and there’s a real way to do things’: Attitudes, beliefs and practices of strength and conditioning coaches in elite international women's rugby union https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17479541231169371

27:37 Barriers to entry and incentivising continued education

56:54 Busting myths vs creating actionable content: evaluating the quality of information

1:07:07 The educational structure in the personal training industry and considerations for your career

1:21:15 Practical applications (education makes you a worse personal trainer!?)

1:34:40 Considering specific and specialised education to improve your practice

1:41:40 Closing statement and where to find Lauren

Instagram @laurencs1 https://www.instagram.com/laurencs1/?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ=

ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lauren-Colenso-Semple

Transcript

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0:00.0	Lauren.
0:03.2	Ballmore.
0:04.2	How you doing?
0:06.0	I'm doing well. Who are you?
0:07.7	Good. Eric seems bothered right now. Is it just me? It seems like he's jonesing for something.
0:16.0	Am I the only one picking this up? I hate to do this publicly and especially live because of course we record these
0:20.8	lives and immediately they're uploaded to all podcast platforms. Is it just me, Lauren?
0:26.5	There's a lot of fidgeting going on over there. Yeah, I don't know. Eric, is everything all right
0:31.2	with you, man? Well, I do have a text right now from Mike Tushaer who just told me that Leah Babwa won the 69s,
0:38.8	because at the moment, I was watching the 69 and 83 kilo class, which at this historic IPF
0:47.4	world in Malta that we're recording, talking about recording it live that you're seeing two
0:53.4	weeks later. And yeah, I'm up in my room with you two,
0:57.1	and I'm not at all disappointed about that frustrated or wishing I could be in two places
1:01.7	at once. Very awkward. And, well, let me just say, we are thrilled to have you back. I apologize
1:06.3	that my co-host is somewhere mentally another place. I do want to hear some commentary, though, from you about maybe both of us because we were
1:14.3	talking off there about this very niche sport.
1:17.9	And I can tell you, like, you know, I'm excited to talk about this research.
1:21.1	I'm excited to help disseminate good information to the masses.
1:24.8	And we're both just talking about, you you know this power of things stuff what is your
1:28.7	perspective on these things as we just discussed some of these trivial details are you like wow
1:33.1	this is why are you guys doing these things well thank you for having me back and i do sense that
1:39.3	you're happy i'm here um eric i'm not sure it could kind of go either way.
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