Arthur Allen Jones (November 22, 1926 - August 28, 2007) is the founder of Nautilus, Inc. and MedX, Inc. and inventor of the Nautilus training machine, including the Nautilus pullover, which was first sold in 1970. Jones is a pioneer in the field of physical exercise that is weight training and strength. He was born in Arkansas, and grew up in Seminole, Oklahoma.
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Achievements
Jones's ideas try to move the public idea of ​​bodybuilding workouts and strength training away from Arnold Schwarzenegger's training school, which involves hours at the gym using free weights, for high intensity training. It involves short, single sets with maximum intensity, to maximize muscle growth. Notable figures trained under the Jones idea include Casey Viator (who participated in the Colorado Experiment), Eddie Robinson (who worked with and participated in and trained under the leverage line of Jones's Nautilus, now Hammer Strength, and IFBB's professional body builder Mike Mentzer.
Jones publications include Nautilus Bulletins , which aims to dispel contemporary myths about training and training. He also wrote and published "The Cervical Spine, Lumbar Spine And The Knee," which gives for the first time a complete description of the lumbar spine function and its true range of motion.
Additional publications include the Jones study results on different responses of exposed muscle structure with varying amounts of exercise across a range of infinite and unlimited range of motion. Jones labeled this response as a type S response for specific and type G for the public. He was one of the first researchers to experiment with exclusive eccentric training on test subjects and among the first to demonstrate the superiority and importance of eccentric training for strength. He is the inventor of infimetric and akinetic exercise equipment. He is the first engine designer to use cams, as opposed to pulleys, in an exercise machine, allowing for first-time resistance that varies along the power curve produced by the structure of a human muscle.
It was the emergence of the Nautilus machine that made resistance training appealing to the general public, triggering a fitness boom of the 1970s and 80s and generating the Nautilus gym in the malls of America.
Nautilus, Inc. marketing the Bowflex, Stairmaster and Nautilus line of products. This new product line is not affiliated with Jones. The Bowflex "power rod" bending technology is partly based on Jones's ideas due to the use of variable resistance.
The Nautilus machine and the company he formed to sell it made Jones a multimillionaire and placed it on Forbes' list of the 400 richest people. At one point, financial analysts estimated that Nautilus was grossing $ 300 million annually. He sells Nautilus Inc. in 1986 for $ 23 million. He also sold MedX Corporation in 1996 and then retired.
On August 28, 2007, Jones died of natural causes at his home in Ocala, Florida, at the age of 80. He survived by two daughters and two sons, Gary and William Edgar Jones. Gary Jones invented the strength training machine of the Hammer Strength.
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Discovery
Arthur Jones is a prolific inventor, holding many patents (many are assigned to Nautilus or MedX), especially the elliptical cam (which replaces the pulleys) to provide variable resistance through various movements.
Other interests
Jones often prided himself on being a generalist, something he described as a step away from stubbornness and "specialist" pettiness. He attributes this as part of his upbringing in the family of doctors, when he finds their attitude toward medicine revolves around what is taught to them and nothing else. One of his favorite quotes is "specialization for insects" Robert A. Heinlein. "He often cites that his observations obtained from flying allow him to understand the requirements to develop an exercise machine.He believes in a competent man, that" a man should be able to put food on the table, build a house, polish the skin and give birth to a baby. "
Jones travels and travels extensively, sometimes with friends and fellow adventurers Roy Pinney (Jones's cameraman for a syndicated TV series called Wild Cargo ), setting up camps for two or more years at a time different as Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Mexico City. His motto is "younger women, faster planes, and bigger crocodiles." Lake Helen Jones, Florida, the Nautilus building is the home of Gomek, an 18-foot saltwater crocodile that Jones tries to grow to a world record size. He is also a spider enthusiast and poisonous reptile, a large collection that is also housed in the Nautilus building. He runs a business involving the importation of a variety of wild animals, ranging from tropical fish to snakes, parrots and monkeys. Her daughter has a full grown black panther who has run free from home and even sleeps with her. He once put up some jumbo jets to transport 63 baby elephants, who have become orphans in Africa, to the Jumbo Lair complex in Florida. Jones filmed the entire operation for television and titled Elephant Operation .
He had appeared at the Tonight Show with his wife Terri and offered Johnny Carson with a rhinoceros horn and explained to Carson that drinking a rhino cuckoo was an aphrodisiac.
Jones is the real creator of "Jumbolair", originally created as a 350 hectare (1.4 km²) paradise for African orphaned elephants and other wildlife. He also kept two rhinoceros and a 600 lb male silverback gorilla which he named Mickey on the Jumbo Lair compound.
After World War II, he developed and owned a zoo in Slidell, Louisiana.
Jones is a master pilot, who is very useful for the animal import-export business he runs before the founding of the Nautilus Sports Medical Industry.
He also founded MedX Corporation, where he invested 120 million dollars, to develop training and medical-based test kits for cervical spine, lumbar spine and knees.
References
Source
- "In the Florida horse country, community with jet appeal: Jumbolair", reprinted from the Associated Press.
- "In a conversation with Arthur Jones", by Brian D. Johnston
- An interview with Arthur Jones
- "Muscle Man" ( Time ) by Stephen Koepp
- Arthur Jones's famous bulletin on HIT training
External links
- New York Times Obituary
- Arthur Jones free writing online
- Arthur Jones online museum (subscription required)
- Links to pdf about "long delayed academic recognition" from Jones's contribution to the field of exercise physiology
- The Jumbolair website
- The MedX Corporation website
- The Nautilus, Inc. website
- Links to some of the bio Nautilus, as written by Arthurs' son, W E Jones
- Nautilus Bulletin Number 1
- Nautilus Bulletin Number 2
- Link to images and videos from Arthur Jones
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