Question: What fitness expert coined the term “aerobics”?
Answer: Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper. Born in Oklahoma City in 1931, he received medical training from the University of Oklahoma and served for 13 years in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army. During this time, he devised the simple Cooper test, which provides a convenient measure of physical fitness based on how far a person can run in 12 minutes. In 1966, he coined the term “aerobics” as any exercise requiring large amounts of oxygen, and he published a book by that title a few years later.
