Happy Heart

Today was amazing. Not much lifting, but, another excellent day of Brian figuring out exactly what I need to make me stronger, and being right there to catch me if I fell.

I was doing some bench pin presses and he was talking a lot about me needing to figure out how to drive myself into the bench from as low as I can. So, we started talking about all the different times I have trouble stabilizing myself and what they all have in common and what we need to strengthen for me to be able to stabilize myself better on the bench and in lots of other situations. Brian doesn't need very long to come up with a lot of things, and he's always dead on for what I'm talking about targeting. He stepped back and looked at me and told me he needed to think, then he walked over to the dumbbells, sat down and tried something and walked back over to me. And while I was doing that one, he came up with a few more. :-D He's really smart. The exercises are going to help so much. And Brian is so patient. When it doesn't turn out the right way the first time I try it again. And when I get frustrated he knows exactly how to explain it so that it makes sense that it might not work out for a while and it doesn't mean it's not going to happen eventually. They were all very scary exercises but he stood with me the whole time and he really did catch me a couple times when I started to fall over. He's found so many things that I never knew I could do or would have tried without him. It's really exciting for me. It makes me have lots of joyful tears. He's been a miracle for me and I'm very blessed that God sent him into my life. He's a constant reminder that God has me right in the palm of His hand and is watching over me every step of the way.

I really needed that today. I went to a new gym yesterday to try out swimming. I really hate going to new places. And I wasn't comfortable in my own skin until I went back to The Workout Center to train today. Then, training became as described above and it really made my heart happy. Brian has such a way of conveying to me that I don't need to be ashamed that stuff is different for me. It's "okay" and it's "all going to work out." And it always does.

Tomorrow I'm 10 weeks out of my first able-bodied competition. Brian's taking me. :-D I'm pretty excited about it.

I can't get this link to highlight like I normally do, but go to youtube and paste this in to listen to the song I wanted to include: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXsiWoyjw60