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According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Kenneth H. Cooper

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Kenneth H. Cooper
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 30
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the United States of America
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After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.
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If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
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Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.
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You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.
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Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.
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[Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise.
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Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.
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Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.
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It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.
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Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.
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The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
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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.
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Fitness is a journey, not a destination you must continue for the rest of your life.
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