No one sits on the sidelines at David Zid's gym!

As I mentioned before, after meeting with David Zid, my husband is on board with getting himself fit also.  When we went to meet David the first day, my husband wore his khaki pants, a sweater, and his regular shoes.  His plan was to observe, take notes and pictures for me.  There was a table along a wall with a couple of chairs next to it, and he quickly settled into one of those chairs.  However not more than 3 minutes into my training, before my Hubby knew what hit, David had him out of the chair obediently (and even enthusiastically) doing exercises too.  You see - we quickly found out no one sits on the sidelines in David Zid's gym. His energy and love for exercise is contagious so you don't want to just sit and watch.  Besides, the chairs are used for exercising. 

It wasn't long before David noticed my husband had a drooping shoulder and since I had mentioned I had a rotor cuff problem awhile back, he outlined a shoulder regimen for the both of us to add to our daily routine. (Dang Hubby, thanks a lot!)

After working with David for a couple of hours Tuesday morning, he invited us to come to a Parkinson's exercise group session that evening.  We jumped at the opportunity to see how to pull all that he had been teaching us into a workout session.  We planned to just quietly observe the group. (Silly us!)  Thank goodness we wore our exercise clothes.

Following that hour long session, David had another session scheduled with an all men's group.  While a couple of the men had Parkinson's, most of them were just regular healthy males who had been working out for awhile and were in very good shape.  David invited us to stay and "observe"  if we wanted to.  I decided it would be interesting to observe the difference in the routines so we stayed around to watch. (ha ha - yes, we are that stupid!!!)  You guessed it - NO ONE just stands around and watches in David's gym!  Quickly  we were drawn into this group's workout and I officially became one of the "boys" for the evening.  And if I do say so myself, other than not being able to pull myself across the floor with my arms while dragging my legs behind on floor disks, and also lifting weights that were a few pounds lighter  (cough cough), I did a pretty darn good job of keeping up with them - at least on the cardio parts.   And ...I was even able to walk out of the gym on my own!  (hold the applause please)  Hubby on the other hand, had a rude awakening of just how out of shape he is.  So now he is determined to get back in shape and is working out with me.  

(high five David!)

My husband insists to this day that our trip to meet with David Zid for my Parkinson's needs was just a subterfuge and my real reason was to suck him into getting physically fit!  Not true - but I have to admit I LOVED the fact that he had to do everything I did!!  After all, the couple who lifts weights together, feels aches together... or something like that...  

Good job David! (handing money under the table)  ;)