I had a client who got winded between every single exercise. Not the normal kind where you catch your breath and go again. She’d finish a set, put her hands on her knees, stare at the floor, and take way longer to come back than the exercise seemed to call for. And she’d decided, somewhere […]
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I had a client, an older woman, whose shoulders did not want to cooperate. We’d been working on her mobility for a while and making real progress, and she was fired up about it. She wanted to push. Add weight, chase the burn, actually feel like she was training instead of doing physical therapy homework.
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Most people treat their body like a car that should start the same way every morning regardless of what happened yesterday. Same weight. Same sets. Same pace. The fact that you slept five hours, ate nothing real, and have been running on stress since Tuesday is apparently not relevant information. Your body disagrees. Loudly, sometimes.
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She couldn’t get out of a chair without help. Not “chair squats are hard.” Not “my knees are a little sore.” She physically could not get herself up without assistance. This is someone I’d worked with before, someone who’d been in and out for years. Every time there was a gap there was a reason.
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