{"id":1639,"date":"2008-04-17T22:25:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2008-04-17T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T05:25:06","slug":"somehow-i-wasnt-as-tired-as-i-thought-id-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Somehow, I wasn&#8217;t as tired as I thought I&#8217;d be."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a warm-up exercise we do at the gym where we <a href=\"http:\/\/recreatefitness.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/i-want-candy.html\">throw a medicine ball to each other around the block<\/a>. If you have the ball, you can&#8217;t move. The other person runs ahead and you throw it to them, then they have to stop and you run ahead. I thought I was going to have to go home and take a nap after I did that, but for some reason I was able to finish the workout of the day a lot stronger than I expected. I kind of doubt it was because I had a salad for lunch today. It cost $12 and for that price you&#8217;d figure it would be gold plated or at some chi-chi place in the Pearl, not at Red Robin in Hillsboro.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s a big sign at the gym: Todd held Hostage &#8211; Day 1. I wonder if this no cheeseburger\/salad idea is actually going to improve my workouts. It never seems to work when I have the awful taco salad at work. I was kind of convinced that following the &#8220;zone&#8221; diet was just superstition, but maybe it actually works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a warm-up exercise we do at the gym where we throw a medicine ball to each other around the block. If you have the ball, you can&#8217;t move. The other person runs ahead and you throw it to them, then they have to stop and you run ahead. I thought I was going to have to go home and take a nap after I did that, but for some reason I was able to finish the workout of the day a lot stronger than I expected. I kind of doubt it was because I had a salad for lunch today. It cost $12 and for that price you&#8217;d figure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somehow, I wasn&#8217;t as tired as I thought I&#8217;d be.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}