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Carry the Corgi? No problem.
Recently I have been attending physical therapy. Through it, I have become acquainted with many new exercises with clever names such as deadbugs (you feel like a dead bug after it), bear crawl (you need hibernation after it), and swimmers where you rest your chest on a medicine ball and no surprise, act like you are swimming.
The ones that make me laugh the most, though, are when the therapist asks me to do squats or “suitcase” carry with the various weights of barbells they have.
Now I’ve talked about the great names for the other exercises, so you can guess that the physical therapy place also had fun terms for the barbells. You are correct. Instead of doing the squats with the 26 lb weights, I get asked to do the ones with the word “Corgi” written on them.
Some clever individual at the PT place decided to figure out how much popular dog breeds weigh and then correlate them to the weights. The Corgi became my friend after I graduated from the Dachshund. I believe I could have had my choice of the Boxer or Labrador if I had the strength of the Hulk but we never will get to that point. Let’s face it, anyone who has had the pleasure of having a Labrador in their family knows that once a Labrador is on you, there is no lifting them off.
And so, the Corgi and I have become well acquainted. I would carry the Corgi back and forth across the facility. I would squat and lift the Corgi ten times. Frankly, I’ve never tried to lift a real Corgi and consider they are herding dogs; they may not take too kindly to a stranger picking them up. Then again, I’m not sure how kindly I would take to a stranger picking me up. But if I ever needed to, I know I could pick up a Corgi and suitcase carry them wherever they needed to go.
Super Woman over here, hear me roar.