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Kicking and high-stepping, jumping and jogging, hitting the floor in a musical routine that includes 45 sit-ups, Rappahannock women are getting in shape this fall in aerobic dance classes.
The local popularity of this rhythmic form of exercise parallels the growth of aerobic dance across the country. “Aerobic”, meaning ‘with air”, refers to conditioning that strengthens the heart and lungs by making them work harder through demanding increased amounts of oxygen over a ong period of time. Other aerobic exercises include swimming, skipping rope, ennis, running and jogging: any exercises done vigorously and lasting for a period of ime. The concept of aerobic :onditioning has been around or a while, and was one of he main causes of the rurrent popularity of running or fitness. Aerobic dancing s relatively new. Jackie iorenson, the wife of an air orce officer, became inerested in the idea of •ombining aerobic conlitioning with dance because >f her husband's association vith Kenneth Cooper, the
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