Bonnie Prudden (January 29, 1914 - December 11, 2011) is an American physical fitness pioneer, rock climber and expert mountaineer. His report to Eisenhower about the untruth of American children compared to their European counterparts led to the establishment of the Presidential Council on Youth Fitness. Prudden wrote 16 books on physical fitness and Myotherapy for all ages and abilities including two best sellers, Pain: The Bonnie Prudden Way (1980). He produced six rehearsal albums, hosted the first regular practice site on national television, held syndicated television shows, and wrote columns for Sports Illustrated . Schools, prisons, summer camps, factories, hospitals, clubs, YMCAs, universities, geriatric houses and facilities for all physical and emotional challenges are used and benefited from the many physical fitness programs he provides for them. Prudden also designed the first fitness mode and developed many sports equipment that can be built in the average garage and used by the family.
He also developed Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy in 1976. "A method for relieving muscle spasms, improving circulation, and relieving pain.Pressures are applied, using elbows, knuckles, or fingers, and held for a few seconds to ease the ' trigger points. ' The success of this method depends on the use of specific corrective exercises of the released muscles. "
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Born as Ruth Alice in New York City, Prudden started his climbing and dancing career at the age of four when he emerged from the nursery window on the second floor of Mt. Vernon came home for the night. After three such adventures, a doctor told his mother, "There is nothing wrong with this boy that discipline and fatigue will not heal. Put him in the Russian Ballet School."
During his growth, he trained at Koslov, Magna and Alviene School of dance, drama, elocution and gymnastics. He attended German Turnverein and Finnish practice, taking piano, violin, sound, horseback riding, writing and studying anatomy.
In 1931 he enrolled at the Horace Mann School where he excelled in English, arts, sports, music, and drama, and taught dance to his classmates. After graduating in 1933, he took additional courses in arts at the Graduate School of Design and journalism and psychology at Columbia. At the same time he began studying modern dance with Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey and became part of the Weidman/Humphrey concert/theater group that appeared on Broadway.
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Mountaineering
In 1936 he married Richard Hirschland, a mountaineer and skier. Their honeymoon in Switzerland is marked by climbing at the Matterhorn after one day of training and purchasing a new pair of boots.
She first climbed in Gunks in 1936 with her husband along with Fritz Wiessner and Hans Kraus. In the winter of 1937, however, he deeply broke his pelvis in a skiing accident, followed by three months in traction and a doctor's prediction that he would always be limp, no longer able to ski, climb, dance, or have children. Nevertheless, Joan Ellen's daughter was born in May 1939 and Susan Ann in August 1943. She rehabilitated herself with chair exercises and water sports for music. Prudden later became the first woman to hold a National Ski Patrol Badge, and formed Addlepate Ski Club, the country's first dry skiing club. It's for kids eight to eighteen years old and a base for the Jr. Ski Patrol. first. Over eleven years he taught 1,000 children ages eight to eighteen without a single broken bone. For his work he was awarded the East Amateur Ski Association for ski safety.
Seven years after his injury, Prudden returns to Gunks, partnering with good friend Hans Kraus. From 1946 to 1955 (guided by Hans Kraus) he became the most prominent female climber with his 30 predecessors documented in the Shawangunks Mountains. In 1952, Prudden and Kraus tried a new climbing route on a cliff known as The Trapps. After trying his very essence, Kraus backed away, handing the boss to Prudden. He was able to find a piton placement that had avoided Hans in essence, and went on to claim the first ascent of "Bonnie Roof". Since then, he has stated that he and Kraus always ride as equal partners, always exchanging directions. He stopped climbing in 1959 when he said he worked fourteen hours a day and no longer had a weekend. After the Hirschlands divorced in 1954, Bonnie changed her name legally to Bonnie Prudden. She never remarried.
Adolescent fitness
After watching her daughter's sport class in 1947, she started
In 1952 Bonnie (still Ruth Hirschland) and Kraus began writing papers for medical and physical education journals on their findings about Hypokinetic Disease: The Inactive Role in Disease Production and various media began to take the story.
Prudden bought an empty primary school in White Plains, NY in 1954 and after renovating it opened The Institute for Physical Fitness. It is housed in three fitness centers, two dance studios, a Finnish sauna, a medical unit, two massage rooms, lockers, showers and offices. Taking a barefoot class is a requirement. The equipment, painted in bright colors, is designed after curbs, boulders, railings, railroads, and less mechanical day walls. Chinning rods are built on every door. Each child uses a ladder 42 between the basement and the upper floor for conditioning, discipline and special muscle building. Outside are obstacles, which include the first climbing wall in America, cargo net, obstacles, parallel bars, staircases, ramps, balance labyrinth, tightrope, slalom pole, and rappel roof.
In 1955, armed with statistics and personal invitations to the Eisenhower White House, Bonnie Prudden presented his findings on the fitness level of American public school children compared to their European counterparts. This is known as the Shocking Report of the President or Nation Shape and is the beginning of a change in America's attitude toward physical fitness.
Kraus's presentation is followed by the medical implications of inadequate physical activity: obesity, backache, high blood pressure, diabetes, coronary heart disease, psychiatric problems and muscle tension. President Eisenhower issued an executive order to establish the Presidential Council on Youth Fitness (now the Presidential Council for Physical Fitness, Sports and Nutrition) Prudden served on the advisory committee for three years. Prudden and Kraus are credited as one of the founders of the Council. In 2007 Prudden was awarded the Lifetime Lifetime Appointment Award. YMCA decided to adopt Prudden's teaching practice methods and follow his advice to receive women to their building for the morning class. Representatives are sent to the White Plains Institute to be taught test and exercise Kraus-Weber. They return to their respective states and arrange their Prudden Program at their YMCA. Prudden became a highly sought-after speaker and the YMCA became the place to go for Prudden Program with diapers and gyms, pre-natal classes, toddlers, mixed teens, and family practice classes. Is Your Child Really Suitable? the first book on children's fitness, published in 1956. This enlarged the President's report and outlined a solution to the problem.
From 1957 to 1960 Prudden served as a columnist for Sports Illustrated introducing his fitness program and appeared on the cover with his own full-length design tricolor. Fitness mode is born. Attracted by the The Home Show fitness mode with Arlene Frances and Hugh Downs, book it for a weekly family fitness TV spot. After closing The Home Show she moved to Today Show with Dave Garroway where she lived for two and a half years. He left the show when they started advertising the diet pills with respect to the place and his observers thought he was supporting him. At the same time he has a regular place on two radio shows, Tex and McCartney and Arthur Godfrey. From 1955 to 1975 Prudden continued his struggle to gain a better body. He wrote 13 books, countless manuals, compiled a pilot program of every type of clothing and fitness equipment imaginable and designed for home and school, tirelessly teaching across the country, issuing six notes, two films, 1 film strip, forming training five days workshop, writing and recording 35 half hour TV shows, The Bonnie Prudden Show. It was so successful that he was contracted for 165 other shows. In 1962 The Reader's Digest started doing the underwriting Prudden Program. This partnership lasted until the mid-80s.
Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy
Bonnie Prudden says that there are three friends in her life that make Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy possible. The first was Hans Kraus, who taught his Repair Practice in 1943. The second was Janet Travell, which mapped the trigger point and referred to pain patterns in patients, in the early 1940s. The third was Desmond Tivy, who encouraged Prudden's research and created what he developed as Myotherapy.
Four years after the skiing accident, Prudden suffered back pain which was one of the consequences of his 1937 crash. He also said that he felt that the stress of his troubled marriage contributed to his physical pain. Back braces, heat, and cold become part of the daily routine.
His introduction to trigger points began in 1938 when he appeared in Gunks to climb with his friends including Kraus. When Kraus notes that he is holding his head in an oblique position, he asks if he feels pain and stiffness around his neck. When he says that he does it, he uses his thumb to press against his neck. When he finishes, he no longer feels pain or stiff and his head is straight. After this they all climbed. From 1949 until 1958 Prudden received training in therapeutic exercises with Kraus, worked in his office with his patients and in 1954 accepted the appointment as Research Assistant from Howard Rusk.
In 1952 Prudden began receiving trigger-point injection therapy from Kraus because of the tremendous back pain that often kept him in bed for days. The injections are followed by corrective exercises and allow it to function for several months before needing an injection.
Prudden closed the White Plains Institute in 1959, purchased 23 acres in Stockbridge, MA and in 1960 began building the Bonnie Prudden Institute for Physical Fitness. He continued his national workshop, a series of lectures, the Springfield College summer program, the Wesson birth program, and a new summer camp program for women, executives and children along with YMCA and Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. Montgomery Ward added Prudden's fitness and fitness equipment to its catalog in 1960.
During a summer training workshop, in 1965, his injured Prudden knee showed a dance series "Russian". Drugs for extreme pain are now needed so he can keep his teaching and TV schedule. Ace bandages and bed rest, if possible, are also part of the treatment. In 1966 right hip joint pain has grown from annoying to limiting and the search for answers begins.
In January 1969 at the age of 55 years, Prudden made a call to Travell. In March of that year he began his monthly routine trip to the Travell office in Washington, DC receiving a series of trigger point injections designed to make him more comfortable and save his hip. During the summer of 1970 he replaced his right hip.
It was 1976 before all the pieces of the Myotherapy puzzle fell into place. Prudden's work arrangement with Tivy is that he will send the patient to Prudden who will find the trigger point, mark them and send them back to Tivy who will inject. The patient will return to Prudden for a corrective exercise. One morning a woman arrived with her head tilted and with a stiff and painful neck. Then Prudden would say that he might have hit the trigger point a little longer or hit it harder when he marked the point. However, after that the woman no longer felt pain, or stiff neck and head straight.
So began its development from Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy. Over the next four years using himself as a guinea pig, experimenting with staff, friends, and patients he developed and charting the most common trigger points and accompanying corrective exercises. It was Tivy who created the word MYOTHERAPY and said that there was not a lot of modalities available to him like this with few side effects.
In 1979 at the age of sixty-five Prudden's left hip replaced. Because of Mioterapi himself, he was able to do a weekend fitness workshop just before his hip surgery. Six weeks later with the help of Myotherapy and aqua-exercise he returned to the gym floor.
In 1980 Prudden opened Bonnie Prudden School for Physical Fitness and Myotherapy which trained students for professions: Instructor Training, and Myotherapy and Corrective Exercise practitioners. The school also has a nursery school where preschoolers use daily, learn anatomy, exposure to music, learn to swim, and are taught the basics of foreign languages ​​through songs and rhymes.
In 1984 Bonnie Prudden School enrolled the Myotherapist occupation with the US Department of Labor. Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy was a trademark in 1990 to distinguish its system, requiring 1300 hours of certification training and CE hours approved to retain certification, from others calling themselves Myotherapists.
Prudden feels that if the average person has the right information and tools that they can take care of themselves. He says that Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy is effective every time the pain is related to the muscle. Since the tools are fingers, knuckles and elbows, he feels that the average person will be able to use that discipline easily.
Myotherapy: Bonnie Prudden's Complete Guide to Pain-Free Life was published in 1982. Three children's books were revised in 1986, 1987, 1988 to include chapters on Myotherapy for each age group.
Next life
Following the next life description of the Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy website :
In 1992, Bonnie moved her work and business to Tucson, Arizona, where she runs Bonnie Prudden School for Physical Fitness and Myotherapy and Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy Inc. Refusing to retire, he continued his struggle for a fitter and pain-free body. Over the next eighteen years he continues to teach people of all ages how to take charge of their own bodies and to remove muscle-related pain for themselves, their friends, family, and pets. She continues writing, teaching and traveling, teaching in her school, seeing patients, and doing rehearsal classes and seminars, serving on the board and collecting national and local awards. Although the pelvis ruptures in four places in a skiing accident, a heart attack, reconstructive hip surgery on his left hip, stents, by-pass surgery (age 92) he continues to use any situation that seems detrimental to learning and teaching.
In an interview in 1997, Prudden said, "Every once in a while I have a conversation with God, I say I'm tired.This work is too hard.I can not retire? The answer is always no.The reason is that whatever I have here" pointing to his head, "to give me the importance of fitness, to be given until I can not give anymore."
"Despite suffering a bone-breaking accident, joint replacement, cancer and heart bypass surgery, international fitness pioneer, TV personality and adviser to the president remain healthy and active for 97 years.He still exercises from his hospital bed, just days before his death, December 11, six weeks before her 98th birthday. "Prudden died in Tucson, Arizona.
Television
- The Bonnie Prudden Show (1963) - 35 half an hour each day featuring three-segment workouts, Mail Bags, Exercises and Interviews. They were filmed in Canada, Australia and Singapore. They are syndicated in Canada and the United States.
- The Bonnie Prudden Show (1965) - 165 half-hour performances per day. Indicated in Canada, Australia and Singapore.
- The Flabby American (May, 1957) - ABC, specials 30 minutes.
- Grape cereal (1950s) ads
Movies
- Keep Fit Be Happy (1971)
- Your Baby Can Swim (1974)
- Live and Feel Great (1974) - Girls Clubs of America
DVD
- Bonnie Prudden Myotherepy: How To Get Started
- Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy: Quick RX for Headaches
- Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy: Quick RX for Back Pain
It was produced in 1985 by Bonnie Prudden Inc. (videographer: Donald Hamilton) on VHS and converted to DVD in 1991.
Discography
- Keep Fit Be Happy Vol. I am (1960)
- Keep Fit be Happy Vol. II (1960)
- Fitness for Baby and You (1960)
- Fit for Ski (1960)
- Fitness Center (1960)
- Teenage Fitness (1960)
Books
- Basic Training, Number I , self-published (1949)
- Is Your Child Very Suitable? , Harper & amp; Row, the first book on children's fitness (1956)
- Bonnie Prudden's Fitness Book , Ronald Press (1959)
- How to Keep Slim and Match after Thirty , Geiss Associates, the first in women's fitness; best seller (1961)
- Testing and Training for Physical Fitness , David G. Smith Publishing, NB Canada (1962)
- How To Maintain Your Child's Health From Birth To Be Six , Harper & amp; Row, a trilogy that emphasizes physical, mental, and emotional fitness (1964)
- Quick RX For Fitness , Dutton (1965)
- Teenage Fitness , Harper & amp; Row. (1965)
- Physical Fitness for You , a talking book for the blind available through the Library of Congress (1965)
- How to Keep Slim and Match after Thirty revised, Handbook, Simon & amp; Schuster (1969)
- Fitness from Six to Twelve , Harper & amp; Row (1972)
- Your Baby Can Swim , Reader's Digest Press (1974)
- How to Keep Your Family Healthy and Healthier , Reader's Digest Press, distributed by E.P. Dutton & amp; Co., Inc. (1975)
- Exer-sex, Bantam Books (1978)
- The Fallax Dollar (The Elusive Pain) , published by itself (1978)
- Pain Release: The Bonnie Prudden Way , M. Evans, NY Times hardcover best seller (1980)
- Pain Relievers: The Bonnie Prudden Way , Ballantine Books, softcover (1982)
- Your Baby Can Swim , re-published as Teach Your Baby Swimming , Press Dial (1982)
- How to Maintain Your Child from Birth to Six , re-published by Dial Press (1982)
- Fitness from Six to Twelve , re-published by Dial Press (1982)
- Teenage Fitness , re-published by Dial Press (1982)
- Myotherapy: Bonnie Prudden's Complete Guide to Pain-Free Life , Dial Press, hardcover (1984)
- Myotherapy: Bonnie Prudden's Complete Guide to Pain-Free Life , Ballantine Books, softcover (1985)
- Bonnie Prudden's After Fifty Fitness Guide , Villard Books (1986)
- How to Maintain Your Child from Birth to Six , Ballantine Book, revised and updated with chapters on Myotherapy (1986)
- Bonnie Prudden's After Fifty Fitness Guide , Ballantine Books, softcover (1987)
- Fitness from Six to Twelve , Ballantine Books, revised and updated with chapters on Myotherapy (1987)
- Teenage Fitness , Ballantine Books, revised and updated with chapters on Myotherapy (1988)
- Myotherapy: Bonnie Prudden's Complete Guide to Pain-Free Life , reprinted by Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy, Inc. (2010)
- Fitness Guide After Fifty Bonnie Prudden , reprinted by Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy, Inc. (2011)
- Exer-sex , reprinted by Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy, Inc. (2011)
References
Further reading
- Prudden, Bonnie (2005). "Bonnie Roof," Alpinist , No. 14.
- Schwartz, Susan (2005). Into The Unknown: Extraordinary Life from Hans Kraus. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse.
- Waterman, Laura and Guy (1993). Yankee Rock and Ice: A History of Climbing in the Northeast USA , with A. Peter Lewis, photography. Mechanicsburg, PA: The Stackpole Book.
External links
- bonnieprudden.com
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