{"id":16579,"date":"2022-12-22T00:39:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T23:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16579"},"modified":"2022-12-28T00:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T23:51:47","slug":"daily_2878_-_workout_selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/daily_2878_-_workout_selfie\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2878 &#8211; workout selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2878_workout_selfie.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nI started a habit of exercising for at least 15 minutes a day, keeping it small and achievable to help make it happen. But the low target actually ended up being counter-productive. 15 minutes was so short that even an energetic walk to and from the supermarket was enough, and after a while I was checking the box even though I wasn&#8217;t even getting my pulse or breathing up.<\/p>\n<p>New habit: at least 20 minutes of strength training on weekdays when I&#8217;m not in the office, or 30 minutes of brisk walking otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been avoiding strength training for a while because the mere idea of stripping off my warm layers in order to change into workout clothes has been unpleasant. But now that I&#8217;m doing it again, I was reminded that the workout itself gets me nice and warm, and the effect stays with me for some while after the workout. Net net exercising makes me warmer, as long as I can get over the initial threshold. As with most &#8220;hard&#8221; things, I just need to get past that initial resistance, and remember how good it will feel afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started a habit of exercising for at least 15 minutes a day, keeping it small and achievable to help make it happen. But the low target actually ended up being counter-productive. 15 minutes was so short that even an energetic walk to and from the supermarket was enough, and after a while I was [&hellip;]<\/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-16579","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\/16579","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=16579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16582,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579\/revisions\/16582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}