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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...
An Elbow Below
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 affected...
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...
Time To Put Your House In Order (Part I)
IN THIS TIME OF uncertainty it is wise to put your house in order. Your house being your body. If you are fit and pain-free it is much easier to handle the stress of uncertainty. No excuses. Get started. “Seldom do wonderful things happen while we wait.”...
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...
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...