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I've been in Boise since 89 um Boise's small yet big if you're Outdoors oriented you know
you're you're right there you've got ski resorts you've got fishing you've got rafting you've
got the Boise River and you know it's right there you can raft at any time it's just it's
a good place to live [Music] foreign
[Applause] [Music] that wasn't working and I put my kneecap out of place and then the
kneecap kept hitting the femur and this has resulted in osteoarthritis basically I don't
have a lot of cushion in there I've got a lot of bone spurs it just doesn't want to
work it hurts to fully extend it it hurts to fully bend it I've been babing it for so
long and then we moved in a house with stairs so yeah at one point we thought we were gonna
have to sell the house um we bought the house and I don't think we realized how bad the
stairs were going to be for her knees but we love the house it's it's pretty much as
close to the dream house as we've ever we spent three years I'm a bit a change at verse
I don't like change so when she finally convinced me to move after I'd been in that house 18
19 years I didn't want to move again um but we've we kind of figured we were going to
have to um there was just the stairs and the fact that um it's got a fairly large yard
and and she wanted to do yard work but she couldn't get out to do the yard work yeah
in the mornings especially when you jump out of bed and the dogs are like I don't care
I gotta go we gotta go right I was crawling down I would like turn around backwards and
crawl down the stairs on my hands and knees just because I I couldn't walk down the stairs
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yeah so I talked to Gretchen and she's like well if you can get off the toilet you can
do a squat I'm like this knee and she's like yep [Music]
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foreign worked out and I decided that he looked pretty good I needed to do something I I was
about 400 pounds I had a gastric bypass lost a lot of weight but I lost a lot of muscle
he suggested reading the book barbell's prescription read that book we didn't have a starting strength
gym I couldn't find anybody in town that was gonna teach me to lift barbells so yeah I
started the first weekend they opened up and Heather kind of watched me for three or four
months to make sure I was gonna stay with him I have a slip disc at The L4 and arthritis
where the the nerve comes out and goes down the hips so I've had sciatica problems all
my life about three four months into it it I just noticed one day that I didn't have
any pain I went through all the whole day I didn't feel anything and all I had really
changed was lifting he said hey they're having a gym opening you should you should come and
you sign up and I've been watching him go since what June so three months and I thought
yeah I can spend time with my husband why not I think the convincing thing though was
Gretchen saying if you can if you can get up off the toilet you can do a squat because
otherwise I was like so yeah when she said that it's like maybe I can that's the thing
with starting strength though it's for beginners because it's you don't have some drunk guy
going push push push you know they start you they teach you forms you start learning like
just with the body weight Squat and lighter weights and you think oh come on it's a little
light that's okay we'll get heavier we're just gonna work on form you know and then
the next thing you know your bench on 135 and you're like hey okay I'm kind of strong
Heather when she came in uh you know she was really timid and and you know this was really
new for her obviously as she talked about like a lot of problems with her knee so she's
really wary just about everything going on and most people are when they walk in here
because you see you know barbells and people doing squats and deadlifts but then as soon
as she kind of just saw the you know the progress she was able to make that one she was able
to do it and that she was getting a lot stronger and seeing all those benefits that happened
she ended up just doing great and she's super competitive it's it's really funny because
I always have to kind of hold her back a little bit because I know she wants to do a little
more than usually she that I think she should be doing well I didn't trust him at the beginning
that's fine I'm like no I don't think I want to do that I don't want to use a box how embarrassing
remember that and um but John Won every argument you know he just knows a lot and he can demonstrate
the difference that a strong body can make he's more experienced than I am Heather basically
she just doesn't have very much cartilage around her knee and so you know bending and
extending it is really hard because of that she wasn't able to squat all the way down
to below parallel and so we had her to squat to a box that way we could control the the
range of motion that she was going through and she could do the same thing every time
we got rid of the box and I'm able to do full
y do a real squat that was quite an emotional day when I could do that because it's like
wow my knee works it actually works now [Music]
the pain will always be there I mean it's just a bad knee but I can walk down the stairs
I mean like down the stairs it's pretty nice we bought tile the other day well first you
have to take it off the shelf and put it on the damn cart I'm pushing because I loaded
two parts right and I'm pushing it through the store and I'm realizing dang I have strong
legs and then we had to load it on the track load it off the truck into the garage and
I had physically moved 65 pound boxes and and part of it was well I can deadlift 200
I can move a Dean box right my knee is functional I could do it and I started noticing little
little muscles that I didn't have before I have one in my wrist right here and I'm very
proud of it because it didn't exist before Oh wait there's one on my forearms do you
see that it's in my forearm and the next thing I know it's like hang on some good looking
calves right there and you just kind of keep going and I'm like whoa hey my quads are getting
there and is that a muscle me tummy wait no they can't that's got to be a fat dimple no
it's a muscle so I mean it's just you see all over body Improvement and it just comes
on slowly and one day you're like damn honey triceps are kind of sexy there so we went
to hockey on Friday and he puts on a shirt and goes that's a little tight in the chest
here instead of being tightened on the stomach it was tight across the chest this time I
was like I might have a bigger shirt and not for the reasons down here
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