IHPRA Newsletter
February 2007

 

This month the IHPRA salutes the Miletich MMA team. 
Coach Pat Miletich and his fighters are known throughout the MMA community
for their dedication, integrity and ability.
TaeKwon Do Times featured the Miletich System in this month's issue.
Click here to see it.

This year's Perform Better Summits have been announced.
Click here for details.

Congratulations to Jefferson County, Iowa's Project Future Fitness Initiative.
All middle and high schools in this consortium have pledged to reshape their
physical education curricula for the 21st Century.
Click here to see the Jeffco site.

 


Ignatius De Loyola
1491-1556
"Let your mind be filled with the thought
that both soul and body have been created
by the Hand of God; We should love the body
in the same degree that He would love it."


Martin Luther
1438-1546
"The young must leap and jump,
or have something to do,
because they have a natural desire for it
which should not restrained."  

Only a few years ago, mainstream religions with few exceptions were not seriously interested
in linking health/fitness to the spiritual life. Television evangelists like Pat Robertson and Ken Copeland now link
the mortal body to the spirituality, and local churches across the nation are following.
http://www.ihpra.org/rama.htm provides some historical information about physical culture and spirituality,
and the "Muscular Christianity" movement of the late-1800s is a great place to begin your study.


A. M. Hewlett
 

Professor Aaron Molineaux Hewlett is truly the Father of African-American physical education.
Click here to learn more about Hewlett, E.B. Henderson, and other physical education pioneers. 

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