Bill Orban

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Bill Orban

Biology

#7601

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#10550

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Physiology

#244

World Rank

#445

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According to Wikipedia, William Robert Orban was a Canadian public servant and academic. He was a "pioneer" in the field of physical fitness, best known for creating the 5BX and XBX programmes in the late 1950s. Early life Orban was born on 21 April 1922 in Regina, Saskatchewan. His parents were immigrants from Hungary. Orban played many sports at the Jesuit high school he attended. In 1941 he was offered a hockey scholarship to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he initially studied engineering. Orban attended the School of Physical Education at McGill University and graduated in 1949. In 1953, he went on to study a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois.

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Bill Orban's Published Works

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An analysis of the lifestyle, exercise habits and cardio-vascular fitness of an undergraduate nursing population. (1988) (2)
The prolactin response of males to a standard MVO2 treadmill test. (1987) (1)
RECONSIDERING ??VO2MAX AND AGE: INTEGRATED QUANTIFICATION OF EXERTION VARIABLES 10 (1997) (0)
An Analysis of Measurements of Organic Efficiency of Boys (1957) (0)
Dynamometer strength tests and performance of weight lifters in international competition. (1962) (0)
Mr. 5BX, Canadian fitness pioneer : a biography of William A.R. Orban (1982) (0)
An item analysis of temperament and behavior ratings of young boys (1959) (0)
BIOENERGETICS OF RUNNING: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL: 154 (1980) (0)

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University of Ottawa