The Fabulous 4
Tonight I stood next to a counter filled with bottles of water, power aide and various other sports drinks, keys, laptops and files gulping down water from a Deja’ Blue water bottle. This is the central hub of Terrio Therapy Fitness. My physical therapist stood, legs spread apart, typing patient measurements and rotations onto spreadsheets and medical update reports in his high tech laptop before going off to stretch and torture his next patient/victim.

“What’s up Skinny?” My physical therapist asked looking up from his laptop.

“Not much.” I said smiling.

“Been busy today?” I asked.

“It’s been Monday all day long.” My physical therapist said sighing.

I nodded understanding. Mondays are their busiest days. Patients don’t always come on Friday, but everyone shows up on Monday. At the Marketplace location where I go, (their busiest location), they see over 100 patients a day. And that doesn’t include the Fitness programs. There are now four Terrio Therapy Fitness locations in Bakersfield.

I drank my water and looked at my chart, trying to catch my breath in between exercises. Super legs – done. Triple threat – done. Reverse hypers, Gravitron, Leg press – done, done and done. I was at the end of my work out program and the only thing left was ABS.

‘M’ my athletic trainer stood on the opposite side of the counter typing on another laptop.

“What abs do you want me to do today?” I asked ‘M’.

‘M’ put his index finger on his lips, cocked his eyebrows and began to think. I knew that look. That look was torturous and scary.

“Do you want me to do those new 4 crunch exercise thingys?” I quickly asked before ‘M’ could come up with some new form of abs torture for me.

“Yeah. Those are good!” ‘M’ exclaimed.

“The Fabulous 4.” He stated.

“Not the Fantastic 4?” I asked making a reference to the latest comic book super hero movie.

“Nope. The Fabulous 4!” ‘M’ stated again. Proud of the name he had come up with for his new set of abs burning crunches that were difficult to do.

“Will they make me... fabulous?” I asked coyly.

“They will make you FAB-U-LOUS!” ‘M’ said winking.

I climbed on an exercise table to do the Fabulous 4 crunch abs exercises from Hell that burned my abs muscles more than any other abs exercise ‘M’ has come up with to date telling myself with each set… this will make me FAB-U-LOUS, FAB-U-LOUS, absolutely FABULOUS! Or else I’ll have to kill ‘M’ for his smugness.
  posted by Matildakay at 9:40 PM