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The grant will go to The Cooper Institute’s FITNESSGRAM® program, a physical fitness assessment tool measuring student health. NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM will be made available free of charge to 1,120 schools throughout each of the 32 NFL markets. Schools interested in learning more about how they might be able to participate should visit http://www.nflplay60fitnessgram.com/projectOverview.cfm.
In 1970, Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH, the "Father of Aerobics," founded The Cooper Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people live longer, healthier lives. The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study (CCLS), made up of almost 100,000 patients’ data records, is one of the most highly referenced databases in the world. Because The Cooper Institute is a nonprofit organization, it relies heavily on private donations and funding from foundations and corporations to support its research...
The Cooper Institute was started by Dr. Kenneth Cooper who happened to be presenting at the 2009 TAHPERD convention. Dr. Cooper hopes that someday NUTRIGRAM and FITNESSGRAM will be on 1 report. After Dr. Cooper’s session, Marilu Meredith (VP of the division of information technology at The Cooper Institute) brought him by our Human Kinetics booth at the conference and Cheri and I were able to meet him and get a picture taken with him.
His next target was much bigger: Dr. Kenneth Cooper, the world-renowned “Father of Aerobics” and head of the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas, Texas. After a couple calls to the Cooper Aerobics Center, Lawler was able to talk to Todd Whitthorne, a close colleague of Cooper’s (and today the president and CEO of Cooper Concepts, a subsidiary under the Cooper umbrella). As Lawler’s relationship with Cooper grew stronger, Lawler thought he’d take the next bold step and ask Cooper to speak at his...
The Fitnessgram program tests the students’ aerobic capacity, body composition, abdominal strength and endurance, trunk extensor strength and flexibility, and upper-body strength and flexibility. The Fitnessgram report will print the test results for only one item in each category. If you test your students on more than one aerobic capacity test, for example, only the best test results will be printed.
Beginning next year Georgia teachers and school districts will have a new weapon in the battle against childhood obesity—Fitnessgram 9. The newly released web version of this fitness assessment program has been adopted by the state of Georgia to help combat the ever-growing obesity epidemic by providing an authoritative tool for evaluating students’ aerobic capacity, flexibility, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and body composition (click here to see the Georgia Department of Education...
The Dutch Association for Physical Therapy in the Geriatrics (NVFG) in cooperation with a research institute called TNO is working on a standard for exercise for older people in nursing homes and rest homes. Recent research shows that residents in nursing homes exercise for only 5 minutes a day. The question is, how much exercise do older people in institutions like nursing homes and rest homes need?
Studies have shown that Nordic walking burns more calories than regular walking. Research done by the Cooper Institute proves Nordic walking burns an average of 20 percent more calories than walking without poles. Similar to an elliptical trainer, Nordic walking uses both the upper and lower halves of the body, but Svensson says Nordic walking offers more upper-body benefits.
If you are unable to answer this question, then you don’t want to miss out on this opportunity to measure your students’ fitness and activity levels using FITNESSGRAM® (FG), the premier youth physical fitness assessment tool with reporting capabilities! The NFL has teamed up with The Cooper Institute to distribute FITNESSGRAM across all NFL markets*. Through the NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM evaluation project, select schools and after-school organizations will be granted the web-based version...
For information on the Fitnessgram Healthy Fitness Zone or standards, view the Cooper Institute’s Reference Guide. If you have questions about this guide or need further details, please email Cooper Institute for assistance. Where can I find Healthy Fitness Zone and standard information for Fitnessgram 8.4?
