Cooper Wellness Center

Aerobics are physical exercises that increase the body's heart rate and the intake of oxygen. At a point in time, you might have enjoyed an aerobic session in school, at work or home. This shows how popular and important Aerobics is to a person's health. After its inception, aerobics was shunned and ignored by most people in the medical field and so was its inventor, Dr Kenneth H. Cooper. Here, we discuss how Aerobics started,  Its growth over the years and, how important it is to an individual's health  The Beginning of Aerobics  After 13 years of service in the military, Dr Kenneth H.Cooper was ready to face the next phase of his life. He had served for 2 years in the army as a surgeon and 13 years as a researcher in the Airforce. During this time, he developed the 12-minute fitness test, 1.5-mile fitness test, aerobics point system and the treadmill test system among others.  In the year 1968, he wrote his first book on the importance of aerobics. 2 years later, h...