I went to physical therapy this morning. My foot, ankle, and knee all have some range of motion issues. The knee is worst, and needs work bending and going full straight. I was put on a sit down stepper machine and punched out an anemic mile in 13:30. Was pretty sad. I then learned and performed a variety of strengthening and stretching exercises. I started with the girly red rubber bands, and graduated to the weak boy black ones. I was able to complete all my sets of 15 repetitions twice on all exercises, except the leg extension where you go from 90 degree knee bend to zero. that exercise just didn't want to work. I have to go thru green to yellow (like a karate yellow belt) by the end and get to 2 sets of 20 repetitions. Yellow are the manly ones. I am scheduled for monday, wednesday, and friday next week to work on this. I then went to the post office to mail some christmas gifts, and came home. When i got home, i decided to start some of the basic exercises i did before the accident, particularly the perfect pushup exercises. WOW. Back to absolute zero. one of the exercises that i could do 10 or 12 of, i couldnt even do one! It is a side to side one arm type of pushup. FAILURE AGAIN! So, I am, as I used to call my boy when i was pushing him to lift weights, a WEAK BOY! But, as is often said, every journey starts with a first step,and at least i didn't trip and fall!!
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