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| Start Strong, Finish Strong | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kenneth H. Cooper, Tyler C. Cooper
Creator: William Proctor
Publisher: Avery
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 173465
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7
Publication Date: September 6, 2007
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Product Description
For many people, growing old means gradually slowing down-losing strength, balance, and even mental clarity. But is this physical decline inevitable? "Absolutely not!" say the Coopers.
Start Strong, Finish Strong is about living the life we all want-now and as we age. It's about breaking free from chronic pain and nagging injuries. It's about refusing to give up the activities we love and discovering new ones along the way.
Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, the "father of aerobics" and the world's leading authority on preventive medicine, joins forces with his son, Dr. Tyler C. Cooper. Together they give readers the tools to start strong and finish strong. Exercise is the primary way to keep our bodies strong, flexible, and vital, so it's obviously a centerpiece to the plan. Other equally important components include the Coopers' unique "gold-standard" annual medical exams that can pinpoint potential health problems before they get out of control; good food in healthy portions; a strategic approach to supplements; help with bad habits like smoking and substance abuse; and a well-developed mind-spirit practice. Readers who follow Dr. Ken and Dr. Tyler Cooper's individualized, adjustable program can expect to feel younger with each passing year.
The Coopers' simple, intergenerational strategy for starting and finishing strong tackles obstacles that interfere with true fitness, gets to the root of common excuses, helps readers to identify special motivational "buttons" that will make them feel good as they get in shape, and explores the latest science that can enhance personal progress. Along the way, the Coopers bring their years of experience to readers with engaging case studies and stories.
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 Good General Information On Aging Well December 9, 2008
Would you like to add three years to your life, live without any sort of disability for seven years when you are older, and reduce your risk of dying from cancer and coronary disease significantly? Most people think the mental and physical degeneration people experience as they age is an unavoidable fact of life. But Kenneth H. and Tyler C. Cooper, a father and son team positioned at the world famous Cooper Clinic, say otherwise. In Start Strong, Finish Strong both of these doctors, who specialize in preventative medicine, show the reader how the can prevent the unavoidable and live a healthy life. Stationed in Dallas, this father-son duo give people a practical guide to help people stay on the healthy road in life, the road that will make you look and feel better than you ever have.
For a huge payoff that will last your entire life, buying, reading, and then following the guidelines given by this book is sure to help you start and finish strong.
 It's helped me along December 1, 2008
My doctor told me last spring that I had to start exercising and eating a little more sensibly. I dawdled for a while, and then decided to order a couple of books to see if they would help. I got a book by Dr. Weil, and also Start Strong, Finish Strong. Both books are exceptional, and they did the trick. Im 63 and I could follow the recommendations easily. Good common sense stuff in this book. Nothing faddish. I like what the Cooper's are saying, and I've been heeding their advice for a couple of months now. My physical is in early February, and I'm not worried about it. :-)
 Disappointed August 13, 2008
I went for this book because of my particular history, and I was disappointed. I was fired from a job in April, 1968 for obesity and hyperlipemia. Ken Cooper's original book "Aerobics" had been published in March and became my bible in my odessey back to health. As I have aged I have developed leg and foot problems that make a treadmill or road work very painfull to use. So I recently bought "The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being" to try to integrate the elliptical trainer into my program and was surprised to find that I had bought an antique published in 1985 before there were elliptical trainers. Then I went to the next book, this one, and found it to be a "rah, rah, let's exercise." I don't need to be convinced to exercise, I need specific data; and I found this book lacking.
A Worthy Read, Indeed February 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dr. Cooper has made and continues to make an incredible contribution to the collective body of intelligence on health and aging. It's just too bad so many adults choose to ignore his scientifically proven prescription for longevity and health. He's the "Father of Aerobics", but his true legacy will be the contribution he's making now for the next generation of Americans - our children - who are plagued with epidemic levels of obesity and associated poor fitness and health. For the first time since data have been kept on the topic, the projection on longevity is that it will actually decline - and decline significantly - in the U.S. in the next generation unless the trend in childhood obesity is reversed. Thank God Dr. Cooper turned down the invitation to become the U.S. Surgeon General in 2006 and began, instead, to focus on the problem at the state level in Texas where some progress can actually be made. As for this book, everything you need to know about living longer is there. The one thing it cannot teach you is the discipline to actually live the program. No book can do that.
 Start Strong, Finish Strong January 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found the book helpful except for the tables on pages (unnumbered)370-374.
Page 370: No labels for the horizontal axis (5th what?).
Page 373: Same here, however I must assume these are years for age. And, assuming again, the values in the body are likely times (minutes and seconds?).
I first read Ken's "Aerobics" in the 60's and continue to be guided by it.
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