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When I first started to working out at the gym with a personal trainer. I couldn’t do hardly anything. People had tied my arm into the gym equipment because I didn’t know how to grab things with my hands. I had to retrain my mind to train my body to work out correctly. It was hard at first and it is still hard. I had never learned to take everything really slow to get in shape. My trainer really helps me to figure out how to work with my disability to get a normal routine at the gym. It is tons of work to my mind set on working out with a disability.
I wanted to get my body into shape because I wanted to feel better about my body. I was turning 30 and I could feel my body getting sorer over time. I didn’t know how to make my soreness go away. I went different therapists and they couldn’t figure out my pain. The therapists said it is my Cerebral Palsy is giving you trouble with your age. I was really worried about my well being because I really felt like an old man.
When I started to work out, I had no idea where it was going to take me. I just wanted to get bigger and look I had mussels but I didn’t have a clue how hard would I work. The trainer who I had hired to train me, he really pushes me to the limit of breaking. My trainer really did show me, it is the little things what really does matter. He used to have me sit in a raigur chair for an hour to work on sitting because I wasn’t sitting up right in my wheelchair. I had to sit with four-pound weights on my arms. It was a total work out; just having to sit up right a chair was totally hard! I was learning to do really small thing will help me to lead up to better stuff.
When we started working standing, I thought this dude was totally crazy! We have been working with each other for over a year. He knew how to work with my body and he knew what I was capability of. My trainer wanted me to hold a bar with using my hands to hold myself up. It was very hard and I couldn’t do it at first. I was working my entire body. I got to where I could walk to side to side with my trainer coaching me. He was coaching me how to hold my own body up. I felt great
I was learning how to take care of myself, finely. I learned by having a trainer at the gym, how keep myself in sharp. Working out at the gym will be always a need. I am realizing people with disabilities really need to stay fit for life. I really need to stay fit for life because I want to have my independents to help those people are going to help me. I want to stay healthily for my friends, and my family and my children.
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