Day 1

Success!! My mom agreed to let me help her and seems like she is in a good place about it. We did an assessment of and found some key areas to start in on. Her large muscle groups are, not surprisingly, very strong. However, she seems to have issues with joint stabilization in her hips, knees, and ankles. Her right hip appears higher than her left; I think since her right leg gives her more pain there is some compensating going on that is throwing her out of wack. Also, she has a pulled muscle in her groin that is limiting movement and a fair bit of lower back pain I think due to pelvic imbalance. Plenty to work on but we have to start somewhere! We warmed up for ten minutes throwing a ball back and forth. This got her blood pumping pretty well and further displayed imbalance in the hips. It also got some "back of the arm" muscles working (which cramped severely). We then did sets of leg lifts to keep her heart rate up and help loosen up those hips. She, very successfully, held each leg up and traced the alphabet with her toes. This helps stabilize the ankle and knee, while being worky-outy at the same time. That is the technical term by the way. After about 20 more minutes of assorted resistance band upper body work we rested and had a good for you dinner. I want to do a detailed set of measurements to help gauge our progress soon. As of right now we are not doing any weighing as I want to keep the focus off of weight and on general health. I hope it will be enough motivation. All in all it was a great first session! My mom seems pumped to change her life and I get to learn some great skills. Thanks to everyone for following!

Joe

PS If any Doctors in the room read something that doesn't seem right please let me know because I'm winging this one!