{"id":664,"date":"2009-08-06T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=664"},"modified":"2009-07-30T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T19:59:50","slug":"summer-workouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/08\/summer-workouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer workouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.adfit.com\/mantaray\/images\/Bar-b4-web-large.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300px\" style=\"float: right\"><\/p>\n<p>First time I squatted, with only the 45-pound rod, my thighs and butts were sore for days.  That seriously demoralized me that I am clearly not as fit as I have let myself to believe.  Then someone taught me that our muscles degenerate very quickly.  Many people couldn&#8217;t even finish two sets of squats, let alone hurting afterward.  Yep.  He was kind to restore my self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>Mike found out my experiment and gave\/lent me this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfit.com\/mantaray\/using.html\">Manta Ray<\/a> gadget (not the fish).  It is an apparatus that snaps onto the rod before squatting, much better than the wrap-around pad provided in the gym.  I have since worked myself up to 100 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>I also found another jogging route at work.  It is slightly longer, 2.6 miles, and crossed three traffice lights.  But I get to run through a stretch of gravel path next to a creek.  Sweating through the jersey with music blasting through the earphones is actually quite relaxing.  I found myself sorting through  many issues during those runs.  This is the time to really appreciate California summers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/joggingroute.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" ><\/div>\n<p>My weight, somehow, refuses to come down.  I told myself that weight lifting is adding muscles.  But Kid and Wife busted my excuse by pointing to my bulging <i>love handles<\/i>.  Oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First time I squatted, with only the 45-pound rod, my thighs and butts were sore for days. That seriously demoralized me that I am clearly not as fit as I have let myself to believe. Then someone taught me that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/08\/summer-workouts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}