She’s ba-ack… YES, I’m BACK! And here to stay (better than ever and I won’t go away; rap courtesy of Jay;-). I want to let you all know in this new year (the year I’m going to be walking; mark my words) I am no longer going to be numbering the days at Project Walk as I go along; I’ll just be using dates. So now, for the spell binding scoop about my first real day back (real good, that is) which was Thursday, Jan. 17th…

I was thinking Thursday wasn’t going to be that great, considering how I felt I did Tuesday. I actually had my first day back the previous week, but didn’t post because I wasn’t feeling the best. Call it the holiday hangover, but both Jay and I were feeling under the weather, because we just weren’t ourselves. However, oh, ye of little faith… because when I work UP Thursday morning, I felt tremendous. I actually got to Project Walk early, which was unusual. I even had the feeling Thursday was going to be one of my best days ever. It was looking good…

I first hour I worked with Elena. When she asked me how I was feeling I told her I felt great, even felt today was going to be one of my best she kinda gave me a funny look, then said, “Okay, show me what you got.” She started me on the fly wheel bike. I could tell she was surprised I was doing so well; it wasn’t perfect, but I could tell both her and Will were a bit surprised. She then had me move the gray table, and had me work my legs. She was impressed here, too. When I told her I felt I didn’t do that well when we were doing this same king of work Tuesday because I think I had some sort of bug, she said, “Peggy, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I thought you did really well Tuesday.” This was nice, but it was intriguing because Elena never says something just to be nice. She says it like she sees it, which I appreciate. She kept asking if I was getting tired, and when I said I wasn’t tired at all—in fact felt really good—she said she was going to have me do something I’ve never done.

She then had me go to the power plate, and had me do semi-squats while standing. Doing standing semi-squats would be difficult anywhere, but the added and quite bizarre dimension to the power plate is that the plate itself is actually vibrating. Elena would have me push a button which would set it vibrating for about twenty seconds, then after it was finished, would ask me if I felt I could do more. The bizarre thing is, I kept saying yes! Over and over and over…I did this for at least five minutes, if not more. Afterward, when I told her I was surprised at how well I did—and surprised that I was able to do it at all—she told me she was surprised too, as she’s never done that exercise with anyone; in fact, she told me she had just thought of it this morning, and said she was very impressed.

The second hour I worked with Jeremy. This is when the day got really fun. He started me out on the red table, saying he wanted to see where my legs were at in order to ascertain what I could do. So he had me work my legs for about five minutes, then said, “Yeah, this is just like I thought. You were doing some tough stuff with Elena; your legs are pretty spent.” So I asked what he was going to have me do if he felt they were okay. He said, “Well, I was planning on having you do standing squats, just not on the power plate. You definitely could have done this the first hour, but you’ve already done it and your legs are gone, so not today.”  I didn’t even ask what he was planning on having me do otherwise, just said, “Jeremy, that’s not true. My legs aren’t spent at all, in fact I’m feeling I’m feeling really good.” He gave me an odd look, not saying anything. I said, “Let’s just do it.” So he called Will, and we went into the next room, which is where they had me do standing squats. And…it was fun! I could tell they were both surprised, which I always love.

After about ten minutes of stellar standing squats (okay, maybe not stellar, just really good) I then used the gait trainer for about a half hour. When the day was over, I not only felt good; I felt elated. The day turned out to be exactly what I was expecting; one of my very best. I do want everyone readin to know I’m scheduled to see my naturopath for chelation Monday. Seeing as chelation always  wipes me out somethin’ fierce, I’ve already cancelled my Tuesday appointment at Project Walk. But I’m definitely planning on making my Jan. 24^th appointment.  So, until we click again… ;-)