{"id":2857,"date":"2009-07-15T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2009-07-15T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:21:17","slug":"todays-workout-was-a-big-ball-of-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s workout was a big ball of suck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m usually tired at the gym, but today was especially bad. I got there early, sat on the bench like I usually do, but I leaned my head back on the wall and closed my eyes. I wanted to be asleep. I&#8217;m not sure if it was the late night working on my computer (like an idiot), or three days of day-long customer meetings cooped up in a room the customers said was &#8220;chilly&#8221;, or the sudden 90&deg;F heat, but this was closest I&#8217;ve been to throwing up at the end of a workout.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I did this one, I did it in 24:04. This time it took me 35:45. I was, however, using Orion weight, and Orion was described today as a &#8220;hairy white Bruce Lee&#8221;  because he&#8217;s ripped like that (and white and hairy). The quote is from Evan, who I actually beat, but only because he was doing ridiculous Evan weight (more than Orion weight). Evan is, however, 24 and will probably recover quite quickly.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. I survived half this week, but just barely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m usually tired at the gym, but today was especially bad. I got there early, sat on the bench like I usually do, but I leaned my head back on the wall and closed my eyes. I wanted to be asleep. I&#8217;m not sure if it was the late night working on my computer (like an idiot), or three days of day-long customer meetings cooped up in a room the customers said was &#8220;chilly&#8221;, or the sudden 90&deg;F heat, but this was closest I&#8217;ve been to throwing up at the end of a workout. Last time I did this one, I did it in 24:04. This time it took me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s workout was a big ball of suck.<\/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-2857","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\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}