 In 1978, at 24 years of age, Hoeger earned his Ed.D.in exercise physiology, also from Brigham Young University.He then taught at the University of Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela from 1978 to 1982; the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa from 1983 to 1986, and served as Technical Director of Fitness Monitoring in Rolling Meadows, Illinois from 1982 to 1983.