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CEREBRAL PALSY: HOW BONNIE PRUDDEN MYOTHERAPY CAN HELP
There are diseases you can bring with you when you are born, or pick up on the way or as a result of accidents. A prime example is Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy is a motor disorder that usually appears by the age of three. Muscles cannot be made to do what they...
The Return Of The Useless ‘Presidential Fitness Test’
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...
WHAT WOULD LIFE BE WITHOUT GOOD ANKLE MUSCLES
The human foot has 29 muscles, 10 of which originate outside the foot but cross the ankle joint to act on the foot. These muscles, along with tendons and ligaments, support the ankle joint and help the body move. These muscles let you invert, evert, extend, flex and...
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...
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 Bees 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...
BUILDING STRENGTH IN REVERSE
Once upon a time you were sixteen and more than anything else you wanted a driver’s license. You signed up for Driver’s Ed, you practiced in the vacant parking lot on weekends with whoever you could corral, and you drove around your yard and up and down the drive. You...