{"id":2547,"date":"2009-03-05T22:16:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2009-03-05T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:20:44","slug":"whose-great-idea-was-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"Whose great idea was this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as I&#8217;m headed to the gym today, it starts POURING. The rain is cascading down the street and I have to put my windshield wipers on high. It dies down on my 5 minute drive there and when I arrive, PEOPLE ARE RUNNING AROUND THE BLOCK. I guess it&#8217;s &#8220;Helen&#8221; day at the gym:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 laps around the building<\/li>\n<li>21 kettle bell swings<\/li>\n<li>12 pullups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>THREE TIMES THROUGH<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I just wasn&#8217;t feeling it today. Our skills workout was one-arm kettlebell push presses x3 and I got up to 36kg, but I was breathing hard and feeling pretty tired every time I push pressed. I think all the leg work early in the week, all the core work yesterday, and something else this week to toast my shoulders made me zombie-like in demeanor. Seriously, I was wondering if I was going to see my lunch just from the push press.<\/p>\n<p>But it was the workout, and so far this year I&#8217;ve just gone for it. If you just push through the workouts, you get steadily fitter. I now have some base fitness and I can make it through most of them with a good time and with good form. Not great, but good. And today, to my surprise, I was the first one through in our class. That&#8217;s even doing two extra pullups because I thought I miscounted on the first round and having a drippy runny nose from having to run out in the cold rain. That&#8217;s my excitement for the day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what this is but I saw it on another blog and found it an amusing use of youtube videos.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AzZi-btc8AA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AzZi-btc8AA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as I&#8217;m headed to the gym today, it starts POURING. The rain is cascading down the street and I have to put my windshield wipers on high. It dies down on my 5 minute drive there and when I arrive, PEOPLE ARE RUNNING AROUND THE BLOCK. I guess it&#8217;s &#8220;Helen&#8221; day at the gym: 2 laps around the building 21 kettle bell swings 12 pullups THREE TIMES THROUGH I just wasn&#8217;t feeling it today. Our skills workout was one-arm kettlebell push presses x3 and I got up to 36kg, but I was breathing hard and feeling pretty tired every time I push pressed. I think all the leg work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whose great idea was this?<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2547","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\/2547","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}