{"id":12596,"date":"2020-04-01T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2020-11-05T22:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:36:01","slug":"daily_1907_-_workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/daily_1907_-_workout\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1907 – workout"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFor the first time since this WFH semi-quarantine started, I exercised. At home and on my own.<\/p>\n

I much prefer group exercise. I like having a scheduled time that gives me that extra push. I like having someone else pick the music and plan the session. And I really, really like having someone shout encouragement at me.<\/p>\n

But none of that is happening now. The gyms are still open but I really can’t see how that’s a good idea. <\/p>\n

I’ve made some half-hearted attempts to work out at home but they all fizzled out. Today I think I found a key to making it happen: pretend that I’m doing it for real. Don’t just walk away from the computer – lock it. Don’t just take off the sweater – change into proper workout clothes. Put on workout music; bring out the dumbbells.<\/p>\n

This felt good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time since this WFH semi-quarantine started, I exercised. At home and on my own. I much prefer group exercise. I like having a scheduled time that gives me that extra push. I like having someone else pick the music and plan the session. And I really, really like having someone shout encouragement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,768,777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2","category-working_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12597,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/12597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}