Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lavish Gym. Class crackles in the clean, conditioned air at Dr. Kenneth Cooper's $2 million Aerobics Center, a lavishly renovated antebellum mansion in north Dallas. The center is a gym. and people sweat there, but the locker rooms are cozy with rust-colored carpet, and their smell is more Brut than Ben Gay. Cooper is the author of Aerobics, the exerciser's Old Testament, The New Aerobics, and two other books about the exercise system he developed while he worked as a health researcher for the Air Force...
...basis of Cooper's system is his use, as a measure of conditioning, of the amount of oxygen a circulatory system can take in and use in a given time. This he measured by positioning runners on treadmills and capturing their exhalations in plastic bags. The more oxygen used, the more work done before exhaustion, the better the subject's condition. Cooper found that he could approximate such tests by measuring the distance a runner could cover in twelve minutes over a track-1% miles for a man under 30 in excellent condition: 1.1 to 1.24 miles...
...Cooper devised aerobic exercise schemes for postulants at each stage of conditioning, aimed at keeping the heart working at 70% of its maximum rate. He advises that runners may subtract their age from 220, then take 70% of the result as an optimum heartbeat rate. Cooper then had the flash of genius that has earned him fame and wealth. Exercisers receive intangible but much prized rewards-aerobic "points"-for doing their routines. An evening of ' bowling? No points. Twenty pushups? No points. A round of golf (walking)? Three points. A 7:59-minute mile? Five points. Get running...
...Warren Cooper, dean of financial aid at Boston University, said yesterday the practice of enticing academic whizz-kids away from prestigious schools with merit-based scholarships is "not as uncommon--or as immoral--as some people seems to think...
...WRIST WRESTLING MEN below 140 Dough Morgan 140-160 Lawton Cooper 160-180 John Tuke 180-200 Chris Ecker 200-220 Steve Hollman above 220 Frank Russo...