I worked with Sue and Claire on Monday on a table that was close to the Keiser wall mount. The table isn’t normally there and Sue said we were going to work there so we’d be able to use the wall mount. We did our normal PNFs after I showed her the picture of my leg and how it looked last week by it was better now. I told her also that my right butt cheek still hurt though. Claire laughed and I told her how my right leg has ALWAYS been my “poop leg.” I turned onto my stomach to do quad and hamstring PNFs and Jesse’s song came on.
It’s not the Jesse song that I have previously put on the blog that I have never heard it at Barwis but one where I will FOREVER remember him dancing to it. We were joking around. I was sitting in my wheelchair at the Keiser machine and Phil was with us and Jesse hiked his shorts up over his knees and stuck his butt out and started dancing. I laughed and laughed. We all did. Anytime I hear the beginning beat of Juvenile’s “Back That A** Up” at Barwis, I always smile and say, “Jesse!” and can remember that day my first summer at Barwis when he was joking around and dancing. Claire asked who Jesse was and I told her that he was my first trainer. Sue says that she didn’t know him because she came after he left.
When we finished the PNFs, Sue had me flip over and she slipped the cuff to the Keiser machine on my left foot. I was supposed to pull my leg completely down. I did it but it was difficult! I asked Sue how much weight it was and she told me that it was 11 pounds. I told her it felt like 500 and she laughed and she that was what she meant to say. I did these extensions with Nick Lucius awhile ago but then I only had 5.5 pounds of air resistance.
I texted Jesse and told him about hearing his song and my 11 pounds of air resistance. He laughed about the song and said the 11 pounds was “actually pretty good.” I told him that It really was! But the progress is SO slow that it is frustrating but I’m still progressing!