Talk:Aerobics

message: Please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic_exercise and merge.
: The above comment is unsigned, however I agree.  (Please see below)  --LookingGlass (talk) 14:10, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Same Name Double Articles 

message: I've fleshed out the lead a little bit. I'll find citations for my own additions, which I haven't referenced yet. There's still a lot more to add, but at least the definition is correct. Yahoo!Sirius 04:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Working on improvements

message: I cannot accept the statement, "Research has been shown that aerobics is one of the healthiest forms of exercise". I have added a Refimprove tag to highlight the need for some kind of referencing or basis for this statement, along with comments about other health benefits such as building a stronger heart and other claimed benefits. Just as important, more description of exactly how these benefits are realised. i.e. Volume/Intensity/Duration/Frequency need to be addressed and the correlation to these claimed benefits. Kavedave 02:27, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly what are you challenging about the statement?  Aerobic exercise in general, perhaps not aerobics in particular, is the type of exercise recommended by doctors to treat cardiovascular problems.  Any aerobic exercise is helpful, that is to say, any exercise that increases the heart rate and is sustained for more than several minutes.  Aerobics fit that description quite nicely.  WLU 12:29, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The section should be ref'd, for sure. I put back the ref tag. And WLU, I'm not sure that your change to the opening sentence of that section was an improvement, so I changed it back. I'm going to ref the whole article, it's on my to do list. Yahoo!Sirius 20:33, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

text: As you like, it should be referenced.  I've made a couple changes to the intro again, tweaked the picture, corrected some wikilinks and moved the refimprove tag to the proper spot..  At minimum, please ensure the wikilink changes are preserved and the refimprove tag is placed at the top of the section.  Also, I moved the fact tag to the top of the page and removed the other citation needed tags -  at the top means the other tags are redundant.  WLU 22:23, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aerobics and Health 

message: DHamiltonSherman 14:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some personal notes on fitness training in the U.S. from the 1950s until 2007

message: The word: "Aerobics" is simply a reduction of the phrase: "aerobic exercise" and so the two articles should be merged.  Dictionary.com gives the following definitions:
 aer·o·bics  (noun)
 1.  Also called aerobic exercises. ( used with a plural verb ) any of various 
 sustained exercises, as jogging, rowing, swimming, or cycling, that stimulate 
 and strengthen the heart and lungs, thereby improving the body's utilization 
 of oxygen.
 2. (used with a singular verb) a physical fitness program based on such exercises: 
 Aerobics is a good way to get your body in shape.
The introductory sentence of this article "Aerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines", is therefore either incorrect (aerobics may or may not include the other matters mentioned in some manner), or its is merely a tautology (aerobics is synonymous with aerobic excerise).  
This article and [Aerobic exercise]] have multiple issues imo (style, NPOV, references, structure, etc).  I have therefore tagged both articles as best as I am able.  Mergeing the two would provide an opportunity to clear these up as well as as eliminate the tautology. 
--LookingGlass (talk) 14:59, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The articles should not be combined as they are about different, though overlapping, things.  One is doing exercise that uses a lot of oxygen, originally known as "aerobics". A specific type of aerobic exercise took the term but is just one of many aerobic exercises.  The typical answer for this is to create a disambiguation page and pick one of the aerobics to be the main article.  I'd vote for aerobic exercise, the concept developed by Kenneth Cooper. --Beirne (talk) 22:22, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge and resolve multiple issues 

message: I agree with the above statement. IMO, we can do two things:
*Either create a disambiguation page (or)
*Merge Aerobics with Aerobic exercise article and rename the latter as Aerobics. 
This might make the confusion clear because Aerobic exercise is an overlapping subject that can go together with Aerobics as a part of it! Trixie05 (talk) 09:04, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge and rename 

message: I recently watched some youtube clips about aerobics; most of them were in the 1980s.
I assume that aerobics no longer has the same appeal that it has had in the past. Can anyone add some history e. g. people who'd perform aerobics in this or that year? Any national championships still going on? And so forth... 2A02:8388:1641:4700:BE5F:F4FF:FECD:7CB2 (talk) 17:04, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Timeline