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Functional Fitness: The Latest Trend
Functional fitness exercises supposedly mimic every day activities… WHENEVER THERE IS a void something comes along to fill it, and it is usually something old with a new label. And so it is that now we have Functional Fitness – and as Harvard Health newsletter...
Don’t Just Lie There… Squeeze Around the Clock
“Operations are usually done so that you can get back to enjoying life… not so that you can have an excuse to avoid it.” —Bonnie Prudden WHETHER PLANNED OR unplanned, the better your fitness level prior to the operation, the sooner you can get back up and doing. No...
Squats, Duck Walks, and Knee Bends
HAVE YOU BEEN told that knee bends are not good for you? It is NOT true, but it all started this way! The following is from the Sports Illustrated March 1962 issue. ~~~~~~~~~~ The Knee is Not for Bending Deep Bends and Duck Waddles Fall to a Texas Professor’s 20-Year...
Muscles: Love Them or Hate Them in the New Year
ARE THERE SOME exercises that you know you should do but you just hate doing them? Did you ask yourself why you hate them? When I was teaching exercise at the Bonnie Prudden School I required my students to set up an exercise program for themselves based on...
Elbow Your Way To Successful Recovery
THERE IS ELBOW grease, elbowing your way through the crowd, joined at the elbows and rubbing elbows. We use our elbows without even thinking about them to hold doors open, to lean on them at table or on knees, or nudging our friend. You may not spend much time...
A Weighty Issue
MOST FOLK UNDERSTAND that to lose weight effectively and efficiently a combination of cut the calories and up the exercise is a must. But What Calories? This may mean tossing out Old Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard and renewing it with the good stuff. Not so easy if you...
Thank You for the Music
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing Thanks for all the joy they're bringing Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty What would life be Without a song or a dance, what are we? So I say thank you for the music For giving it to me —ABBA MUSIC, IN ONE...
Wake Up, America… Move to Focus
IN 1933 VANVES, a tiny suburb of Paris, was the site of an 18 month experiment under the direction of Dr. Latarjet of the faculty of medicine, University of Lyons. Thirty children in the 11 year age who were judged to be the physically weakest due to hereditary...
Get Fit a Bit at a Time
YOU MADE A PLAN but you didn’t start? You even wrote it down. But there it sits on your desk. Sometimes starting is the hardest thing to do. Success with anything rarely comes all at once. But you do have to start. When it comes to your fitness program, your I’m going...
Correct Ergonomics: Not the Whole Answer
ERGONOMICS DEFINED ERGONOMICS IS ROUGHLY DEFINED as the study of people in their working environment. An ergonomist analyzes, designs, and modifies the workstation to fit the worker with the goal of making the worker more comfortable and eliminating the risk of...