Cooper, md, mph, sets an example for maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exercising at cooper aerobics center on a regular basis, along with his wife, millie, daughter, berkley, son, tyler, and their families. Examines the effects of aerobic exercise on the body, with a test for evaluating physical fitness and advice on the advantages and disadvantages of different. At an age when most people are slowing down, 70yearold dr. New cooper book released nationally cooper institute. Tyler cooper is also president of cooper life, a healthy lifestyle community within mckinneys craig ranch housing development. Cooper born march 4, 1931, oklahoma city is a doctor of medicine and former air force colonel from oklahoma, who pioneered the benefits of doing aerobic exercise for maintaining and improving health. Mar 05, 20 this year marks the 45th anniversary of the dr.
Message of the day lifestyle has a tremendous affect on longevity kenneth h. Coopers faithbased fitness helps you turn your words into action with a comprehensive, ontarget regimen that pinpoints the relationship between spiritual faith and physical health. New data on the worlds most popular exercise program by kenneth h. Cooper for jazzercise, richard simmons, and those lovely neon spandex workout suits. Coopers most popular book is aerobics program for total wellbeing. He is 64 years old and he jogs 4xweek, and on the rare occasions that he has sustained an injury for instance, recently to his achilles tendon, he biked instead and used coopers formulas to calculate the time. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Coopers landmark book aerobics was first published in 1968 and start strong, finish strong, will be his nineteenth book, his first with his son. Kenneth cooper isnt slowing down even if you dont know his name, the father of aerobics has influenced the way you exercise. March 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the revolutionary book that launched a worldwide fitness revolution.
At the time the book was published there was increasing awareness of the need for increased exercise due to widespread weakness and inactivity. Kenneth cooper got a nation moving through aerobics. Convincing those same people that this funny word was a critical component to their overall. Buy aerobics by kenneth h cooper, md, mph online at alibris. The cooper institute is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. From the medical authority, whose previous bestsellers aerobics, the new aerobics, the aerobics way, and aerobics for women have sold more than 12 million copies, comes an exciting, new and comprehensive concept for total fitness. Publication date 1970 topics aerobic exercises, physical fitness. Cooper has authored many books, which have sold more than 30 million copies, including the aerobics program for total wellbeing, aerobics for women with mildred cooper, the antioxidant revolution, preventing osteoporosis, overcoming hypertension, kid. Before coopers book, aerobic exercise was the domain of professional athletes. Cooper published a massmarket version the new aerobics in 1979. Cooper, the bestselling author of running without fear, presents a complete program for total wellbeingphysically, nutritionally, emotionallythat. Now hes saying exercise is a problemand can even kill us. The benefit you get by reading this book is actually information inside this reserve incredible fresh, you. Cooper speaks about the history of aerobics and its continued impact around the.
In 1968, he published aerobics, which included exercise programs using running, walking, swimming and bicycling. I warned my pubisher that the word aerobics wouldnt translate, says former air force flight surgeon kenneth cooper, who coined the term in his 1968 bestseller, aerobics. Kenneth cooper published his first book, aerobics, in 1968, people could hardly pronounce it. Cooper, md, mph, is recognized internationally as the father of aerobics and is the leading spokesman for the preventative medicine movement. With the popularity of aerobics, which has been translated into 41 languages and braille, he also coined aerobics and submitted the official definition to the oxford english dictionary. Readers digest and bom will rally round to give this red, white and blue exercise book by a major in the u. Cooper and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Cooper s faithbased fitness helps you turn your words into action with a comprehensive, ontarget regimen that pinpoints the relationship between spiritual faith and physical health. Following the 1968 bestselling publication of aerobics by dr. Fifty years ago this month, cooper published the groundbreaking book aerobics.
Doctor coopers book is the original in the world of aerobic conditioning. My dad has kenneth coopers aerobics book and has been following that point system for over 30 years, and is in fantastic health. May 29, 2019 following the 1968 bestselling publication of aerobics by dr. Yes, other books and articles have been written to no end since that original book, but this ones strengths out do the later imitators. Cooper has authored 18 additional books, which combined have sold more than 30 million copies. Book awards book club selections books by author books by series coming soon kids books new releases teens books this months biggest new releases. Kenneth cooper, the number of runners and joggers increased exponentially through the 1970s.
Cooper, md, mph, the father of aerobics,is the president and founder of the cooper aerobics center. The book was three years old when i entered usaf basic training. Advance runners from the publishers tell us that this week magazine. At age 88 and having logged more than 38,000 miles running, kenneth h. If i had stuck with it, i would have completed at least one boston marathon by now. He is the author of the 1968 book aerobics, which emphasized a point system for improving the cardiovascular system. Aerobics has since been printed in 41 languages, including braille. What began as one mans quest to quantify the amount of healthy levels of exercise sparked a worldwide fitness movement.
A graduate of the university of oklahoma school of medicine and the harvard university school of public health, he introduced the term aerobics to the world with his bestseller aerobics. Well, not technically, but he is the father of aerobics, the fitness revolution. Aerobics by by kenneth h cooper this aerobics book is not really ordinary book, you have it then the world is in your hands. Cooper, whose 1968 book, aerobics, helped start the fitness movement, is intellectually provocative but hardly sensuous.
This is not around just how a lot this e book aerobics, by kenneth h cooper expenses. Since cooper aerobics centers founding more than 40 years ago, dr. Hes written 18 more books since, but this was the one that set. What began as one mans quest to quantify the amount of healthy levels of exercise. Published in 1968, aerobics, which has been translated into more than 40 languages, started nothing less than a global health and fitness revolution. Recognized through his writings and research as a leader in the international. Kenneth cooper on 50th anniversary of aerobics youtube. Ken cooper, who coined the term aerobics in 1968 and founded the worldrenowned cooper aerobic center in dallas, is upping his iron pumping sessions from two to three days a week. Founded in 1970 by the father of aerobics kenneth h. Air force medical corps a rattling drum roll send off, and quite possibly this will be the biggest thing in bodyballistics since weight watchers, now at its nonfatty zenith. He published his ideas in a book, aerobics in 1968. Cooper continues to be recognized as the leader of the international physical fitness movement and credited with motivating more people to exercise in pursuit of good health than any other person. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers.
Cooper released his groundbreaking bestselling book, aerobics. Kenneth cooper isnt slowing down even if you dont know his name, the father. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2. Frank shorters gold and silver medals in the 1972 and 1976 olympic marathons, respectively, and jim fixxs bestseller, the complete book of running, helped fuel this trend. Hes written 18 more books since, but this was the one that set the course, the plan and the theory that led to the. Aerobics has since been printed in 41 languages, including braille, and sold more than 30 million copies. Kenneth cooper published aerobics, his first of many books. The cooper institute, as a 501c3 nonprofit, does not endorse any product, service, or linkedto entity.
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