People Flashcards
Father of Aerobics
Kenneth H. Cooper
Some skills require the nervous system to be mature enough to allow someone to learn.
Illingworth
Law of Readiness– Learning depends on the individual’s willingness to act.
E. L. Thorndike
Great researchers of muscle research:
Wilhelm Raab
Otto Fischer
Psychologist theory of multiple intelligences… Students don’t learn the same… Technology helps reach different learners.
Howard Gardner
Developed instruments to measure performance by measuring oxygen.
Claude Douglas
Promoted running in the early 1970’s
Kenneth Cooper
Wrote De Motu Animalium… Examined muscular movement… Studied under Galileo… Studied falling bodies to write book.
Alphonso Borelli
Created a system of PE focused on measurement of power & strength… He did this at Hemenway Gym
Dudley A. Sargent
Professor helped start the American College of Sports Medicine.
Bruno Balke
Director of Harvard Fatigue Lab 1927-1947.
David B. Dill
You can perform a skill:
Maximum Certainity
Expends Minimum Energy
Complete it in least amount of time
E. R. Guthrie
Focused on physical fitness and health for women & children
Catharine Beecher
Developed the laboratory of physiological hygiene at the university of Minnesota.
Ancel Keys