IHPRA Newsletter
November 2009

Our declining physical, mental and moral fitness threatens our military preparedness

Take a look

Another

This has been an issue for years

Air Force considers easing mandatory fitness requirements

Anyone trying to sort out the evolution of post-WWII physical fitness to the present
should know about Thomas K. Cureton Jr. 

Why exercise makes you less anxious

Flexibility reconsidered

Exercise and weight loss

Exercise and immunity

Dear IHPRA.  Thanks for the great web resource. 
Seems like I once saw an article about CA Sampson in an old Strength and Health magazine.
Would sure appreciate any leads.  Thanks again.

You are probably referring to the April 1939 edition.
Click here.

For more information, Click here.

That same issue has an interesting article on grip strength

Is it really true that Iowa has bought into the PE4Life and target heart rate philosophy?

The Iowa Business Council has invested $1.5 mil in this project, and is hoping to convince other businesses to join them.
Two people will be hired to run the program. Heart rate monitors and target heart rate are a vital component of the program.

THR was publicly questioned in 2001

What early physical educators do you recommend for study?

Dudley Sargent	Nils Posse	William G. Anderson
R. Tait McKenzie	Mabel Lee	Herman J. Koehler
George Brosius	P.H. Ling	Charles H. McCloy

There are many.  Here are a few.

Are you still professionally active?

Yes.

Functional fitness quote of the month

Whatever we may think of the desirability of striving for the highest physical development in a given line at a later age,
we think that most educators will agree to the proposition that all-around development must precede specialization.
Mind and Body Journal
January, 1907, Vol 13, No 155

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