{"id":1695,"date":"2008-06-04T22:15:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2008-06-04T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:20:18","slug":"feeling-like-an-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Feeling like an old man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All day I was walking around stiff-legged because my legs are SORE from taking too much time off from the gym. I was having all sorts of trouble getting up and down the stairs, but I still did it because I&#8217;m still subscribing to the &#8220;work out the lactic acid&#8221; thing even though it never seems to work for me. And now, using the power of the intarweb, I found out that it isn&#8217;t lactic acid but <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsmedicine.about.com\/cs\/injuries\/a\/doms.htm\">damaged muscle fibers<\/a>. I guess the new thing is that I&#8217;m supposed to just take it easy. Huh. Who woulda thunk it?<\/p>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;m too foolish to follow my own advice here, and I went for another hard workout at the gym. We were doing pullups with a 40-pound weight vest, which is doing pullups with 20 pounds more than I weighed when I started at the gym. How do I know it was hard, besides finishing DFL? We did four rounds of 250m rowing, 15 wall-ball (which I hate), and a sprint to the corner and even Mark the yoot was lying on the floor between rounds.<\/p>\n<p> I didn&#8217;t feel so bad physically afterwards, but I felt kind of bummed out. Like I just realized that I haven&#8217;t done anything worthwhile with my life lately. Well, I know I haven&#8217;t done anything that worthwhile EVER, so it wasn&#8217;t a big surprise. I then had the idea that it might just be my blood sugar level because I&#8217;ve been rather hungry all day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now really bad at being depressed because all it took was eating dinner and then trying to put my USB-to-Morse-Code adapter back together to cheer me up. I dropped one of the screws (never to be found in my mess of a basement) and that completely distracted me from any efforts at being a gloomy Gus. That&#8217;s even though I probably should have been more depressed that I have a USB-to-Morse-Code adapter in the first place. At least I know what a tapir looks like, even though I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All day I was walking around stiff-legged because my legs are SORE from taking too much time off from the gym. I was having all sorts of trouble getting up and down the stairs, but I still did it because I&#8217;m still subscribing to the &#8220;work out the lactic acid&#8221; thing even though it never seems to work for me. And now, using the power of the intarweb, I found out that it isn&#8217;t lactic acid but damaged muscle fibers. I guess the new thing is that I&#8217;m supposed to just take it easy. Huh. Who woulda thunk it? Of course I&#8217;m too foolish to follow my own advice here, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feeling like an old man.<\/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-1695","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\/1695","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=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}