Figures 1A & 1B

(1A). The status of the ACSM and the main contributing disciplines during the 1950s. At this time, Physical Education, Cardiology, and Physiology were the three categories for membership, and for classifying submitted papers at the annual meeting. (1B). The proposed current (1998) status of ACSM and the contributing disciples. Exercise physiology is unique in that it appears to thave been engulfed by the growing and expanding functions of ACSM.