Kenneth H. Cooper Quotes


Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.


Citations

Cooper, Kenneth H. The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being. Bantam Books, 1982.

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  • Born: March 4, 1931
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Soldier

Kenneth H. Cooper 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. He is the author of the 1968 book Aerobics, which emphasized a point system for improving the cardiovascular system. The popular mass market version was The New Aerobics (ISBN 0-553-26874-0), published ten years later.