Day 18 - Knots, Knots, and Human Chain Pushups

I never been good at tying knots. I've taken knot classes. I've been a rock climber and had to tie my own safety knots. I've never been able to wrap my head around them. So you can imagine my nervousness of today's knot class.

I had been noticing this day on the schedule of quite some time. I even had the ambition to get rope and start early. Just to make sure I was ready. That didn't happen, but the thought was there.

To my surprise, I handled knots very well. I don't know if it was the teaching, my classmates, or just my mind set. But in any case, I can still name and tie all the Knots I was taught this morning.

The rest of the day went just as well. I was able to return my "nozzle" necklace, I got paid, and had an hour and half for lunch. I deposited my check and ate at Ankar's. Very good.

PT was with Ralph. He worked us out and ended his workout with the Human Chain Pushup drill. We did this the Monday of the very first week we started. For those of you who may not know what this exercise is, I'll explain....

In groups of fours, we all line up head to feet. The first person in line places his ankles on the shoulders of the person behind him. This continues throughout the line with the last person having his feet on the ground. Everyone else does a normal pushup with their feet elevated on the shoulders of the person behind them. It kind of looks like one long person doing a pushup.

On Ralph's command we went up. On this pushup I was in the third position. I was surprised on how easily I went up. We held it for about 15 seconds. After we came down, we all moved up in the line, and person in front went in the back. I moved up to the second spot, and boom...was able to pushup once again. Down we went and to the front I went. The easiest spot was in the front. Up we went...no problems. One more move put me in the back. Up we all went.

It was a big success for me. It showed me that, all this work, all this PT is making me stronger. Granted I can't do a ton pushups, or pullups, or swims across the gym floor, but I am getting better. We all are getting better. And it's something the Training staff has pointed out to us.

Good day today....let's hope the last day of the week can be a good day as well.