Precerpt from Grandma's Ninja Training Diary: Strength Comes In Many Forms - Some You Don't Expect
My 46-year-old son, Shenan, has CHARGE syndrome: malformed ear canals, balance issues, respiratory compromise. on oxygen. 4'7", a lifetime of medical trauma. And yet — he is stronger than the average 30‑year‑old American man. He lifts. He carries. He moves. He works. He doesn’t fear effort. He began shoulder pressing 10 pounds, and now he can handle 80 -- the same for all the upper body and lower body machines. He comes close to matching me on the upper body (not yet on core and lower body, but he is working it at the gym, where he goes whenever I go). He has lived through things that would flatten most people, and he still shows up with more functional strength than men twice his size. People see disability and assume weakness, but disability often builds strength — real strength, the kind forged by necessity and resilience. Shenan is not fragile. He is a force. Grandma’s Ninja Training Diary is the inspiring true story of a septuagenarian grandmother who dared to dream b...
