Toddling

Has anyone seen this Fwd? (click here)

A friend sent it to me

(and other of his ladyfriends)

thinking I'd find it funny.

I didn't.

It triggered me so badly

I cried every time I thought

about it for the rest of the day.

I've been wanting to blog about it

but every time I  start to

I think I'm overreacting

for being so god-awful insulted.

Maybe it is funny

and I'm just too sensitive in my

snapping turtle.

I need to let my ego settle before I

say anything more about it.

Just know, it's been weighing

heavily on my mind.



So for now, rather than be a snarky

humorless douche,

I'm going to talk about

being a toddler again...



I can't believe I have to learn to walk again.

My feet are so weak, Dr. Joe had to teach me

exercises to strengthen my arches.

We call them TV exercises.

I have to do them

while I sit and watch TV at night

(or sit anywhere for that matter).

They're really difficult.

It took me a few tries to get the

"form" just right.



When you have weakness in certain

body parts they're hard to control.



He didn't intend to give me those exercises.

We started with me at the barre

attempting to relevet (these are ballet terms.

Dr. Joe uses actual physiological terms).

I could hardly rise up on my toes.

I told him that I knew he couldn't see

my feet through the sneakers but

that I swore I was actually doing

the rises.



He told me to stop.

There was no point in doing an exercise

that I couldn't do effectively.

That's when he showed me the arch curls.

When I got up to walk afterward,

my arches were

burning from the new attention.

I walked back to the work table

like I had stepped in something icky.



Whenever he sees me in discomfort

he checks up to make sure it's

productive discomfort.

Soreness for soreness' sake

is not a mark of achievement.

Some pain is ok

as long as it's constructive.



I deeply, deeply appreciate that he works this way.

He works me hard but smart.

The smartness makes me willing

to work through the pain.



He sent me home with stretchy bands

with which to do my TV exercises.



I'll be watching my Joshua McKinley

and stretchy-banding my feet and lower

legs back into some sort of shape

tonight.



Talk about square one.

I'm a toddler again.

Well, I worked my way up from

toddling to running

once before.

No reason I can't do it again,

right?



*Lisa's Video Pick of the Day*

Josh Rubin is not a fan of cardio

for people like me.

Did I watch this one already?

Well, until I understand "catabolic"

and "anaerobic" I guess

I should watch it again.

click here or click below