- So, I thought a lot about my “”Debbie Downer” anniversary last week and it got me thinking. A catalyst that really got me thinking about this was the music at Barwis. An Everlast song came on and I remembered a conversation that I had with Mike Rhoades back when I worked with him just after Adam left. We had just heard the House of Pain song, “Jump Around. Just after I started working with Michael. Now, I LOVE music and can talk about it constantly, Michael asked if I knew that it was Everlast rapping and I told him that I had kind of heard that maybe. Michael told me about one of his favorite songs by Everlast; “The Lonely Road.” I’ve never heard that song at Barwis but when I heard that Everlast song with the ‘Fit Club” controlling the music; I thought of that conversation with Michael.
I could have such long conversations with Michael because that was back before I was doing the REAL work of PNFs. I remembered Michael telling me about what a PNF was. He didn’t actually tell me but made me find out myself. (I just texted Nick Lucius and asked him) but when I came back and told him what PNF stood for, (Proprioreceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) he told me what it entailed and demonstrated it for me. Now, this was back when he used to “Oh Doggie” stretch me and I couldn’t do much else but let myself be stretched. I couldn’t even do PNFs then.
That is not the case today. PNFs for me now are almost a daily routine. I do multiple reps and multiple forms of them. So, I’m a lot further in my progress than I was almost a year ago. I couldn’t believe that it had been 3 years and I STILL wasn’t walking, so much so that I couldn’t see my progress. I couldn’t hear all of my trainers’, “Hell yeah’s” or, Beautiful’s” when I was focused on what I couldn’t do but the fact is that they happened. I leave Barwis now SO tired because I am actively doing stuff! Stuff that will eventually get me walking and I’m grateful that at this moment I can see that. I’m reminded of a quote I saw in a tweet not too long ago, I see it often and I’m not quitting.
