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WALK, RUN, WALK: PREPARE FOR PLAYTIME
WALK, RUN, WALK: PREPARE FOR PLAYTIME Long before the run walk run method was popularized by Olympian Jeff Galloway in the 1970s Bonnie Prudden was using it in her workshops and writing about in her 1963 best seller book How to Keep Slender and Fit After Thirty and...
THE ANKLE BONE CONNECTED TO THE…
The ankle, like our other joints,is a beautiful piece of work and treated fairly and without mishaps should serve us well for a lifetime. The ankle joint is formed by three main bones: tibia, fibula, and talus. The talus articulates with the tibia and fibula and has...
The Bee’s Knees
The bee's knees is an expression for something excellent or the highest quality. YOU want to have knees of the highest quality…the bee’s knees. The knee is a well-crafted hinge joint held together with muscles, tendons and ligaments. Given proper care and barring...
LET IT BEGIN WITH YOU
In my last blog I outlined what I felt needs to be done if we are to become a fit nation. But most of what I listed needs the cooperation of other entities like schools of one kind or another. Since that is not going to happen and you can’t wait around it is really up...
WE WILL NOT BE A FIT NATION UNTIL….
We understand that fitness starts at birth and that the first six years are the most important times to build the body…as well as language skills, manners, curiosity, courage, etc. We understand that the body that is built between birth and six and honed from six to...
THE RETURN OF THE USELESS ‘PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS TEST’
Tests are useless without a program. Where is the program? It is true that the PFT dates back to the mid-1950s when the results of the Kraus-Weber Testing for Minimum Strength and Flexibility conducted by Dr. Hans Kraus and Bonnie Prudden were published in 1953 and...
THE ELBOW BETWEEN
Whether you apply ELBOW GREASE, need a bit of ELBOW ROOM or plan to ELBOW THROUGH the elbow is an important joint. We lean on our elbows, we give friendly pokes with our elbows, we close doors with our elbows, and we lift with our elbows. But we hardly give them a...
PARKINSON’S: A BETTER WAY (PART II)
Although much research is being done on Parkinson’s it is agreed that at this time at least the cause of PD is unknown and that the disease can’t be cured. It is also agreed that both exercise and music are key to improving some of the classic symptoms: tremor, motor...
BONNIE AND MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE: A STORY OF PARKINSON’S (Part I)
In 1953, Margaret Bourke-White developed her first symptoms of Parkinson’s which forced her to slow her career in order to fight the encroaching paralysis. In 1959 and 1961 she underwent several operations to treat her condition, which ended her tremors but...
Time To Put Your House In Order (Part II)
IF YOU FOLLOWED my directions to put your house in order PART I, you are on your way to passing the Kraus-Weber Minimum Fitness Test for strength and flexibility of key posture muscles: abdominals, psoas, upper back, lower back, and back and hamstring...