Encyclopedia entry: Physical Fitness Movement

Article: PHYSICAL FITNESS REVOLUTION LEVELS OFF IN US OVER ...
The Boston Globe;  September 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... of our collective physical fitness behavior. According ... the present-day fitness movement is a direct descendant ... personal health and physical fitness. This nascent fitness ... forerunner of a wider fitness movement, peaked during the ...

Article: Increased need for Marketers in Sports Industry to acquire ...
M2 Presswire;  September 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... sub-trends within fitness movement.(C)1994-2004 ... participants. The realm of physical fitness offers a particularly ... aggregate data. The fitness movement is a complex tangle ... the master trend of physical fitness? Market analysts ...

Article: Research and Markets: Increased Need for Marketers in Sports ...
Business Wire;  September 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... participants. The realm of physical fitness offers a particularly compelling ... need to aggregate data. The fitness movement is a complex tangle of sub ... what is the master trend of physical fitness? Market analysts in the more ...

Article: Presidents Set a Fast Pace; From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, ...
The Washington Post;  February 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... have set the pace on physical fitness for the rest of the ... President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. The ... government's message on physical fitness may have become gentler ... new in the current fitness movement is accumulating research ...

Article: THE CREATIVITY FITNESS MOVEMENT
Aging Today;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The focus on physical fitness goes way back-certainly to ... in the 21st century, a new fitness movement is emerging: creativity fitness ... tinguishes the cre- ativity fitness movement is its comprehensive focus on ...

Article: Physical fitness expert; Doctor's research showed ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 17, 2007 ;     417 words ... ... professor and researcher whose study of the connection between exercise and longevity influenced the modern physical fitness movement, has died. He was 84. Dr. Paffenbarger died at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., on July 9 after a long battle ...

Article: Thomas K. Cureton, Jr.: pioneer researcher, proselytizer, and ...
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Springfield, Massachusetts since 1929. Cureton established the Physical Fitness Research Laboratory in the Department of Physical Education ... was the recognized leader and steward of America's fitness movement for a half century.(1) America had other health promoters ...