{"id":2213,"date":"2010-07-19T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2010-07-19T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T13:32:12","slug":"exercisethismorning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/exercisethismorning\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on exercise this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some random thoughts that occur to me this morning after Nikki and I decided to suddenly start exercising this weekend after a rather long break from anything resembling exercise.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After apparently laying about like a gelatinous slug for the past\u00c2\u00a0millennia, muscles actually atrophy to the point where my body actually has to re-evolve the ability to have muscles. \u00c2\u00a0It doesn&#8217;t like that, forced evolution of muscle in the span of a few hours hurts like a mother. \u00c2\u00a0My splendidly-muscled laptop typing fingers excepted, of course. \u00c2\u00a0My glide-pad finger has a six-pack.<\/li>\n<li>I no longer have legs, I have pain-sticks upon which I totter about like a drunken circus clown on stilts, unfortunately afflicted with Tourette&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>Sneezing has turned into an explosive shout-bark, especially hilarious in the middle of allergy season.<\/li>\n<li>My recent habit of camping in a Starbucks to work when I am not at a client&#8217;s site is now some form of purgatory since sitting on a wooden chair on my recently punished glutes is agony.<\/li>\n<li>The older I get, the more intense this period of &#8220;discomfort&#8221; is after re-starting exercise. \u00c2\u00a0I thought we were pretty sensible about what exercise we did, taking it relatively easy. \u00c2\u00a0It now seems likely that while I was asleep on the weekend I was drugged and beaten with sticks by a whole rugby team as I lay in bed. \u00c2\u00a0There is no other explanation that makes sense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sad thing is the horrible horrible realization that I have to actually exercise again soon, or this will all be for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some random thoughts that occur to me this morning after Nikki and I decided to suddenly start exercising this weekend after a rather long break from anything resembling exercise. After apparently laying about like a gelatinous slug for the past\u00c2\u00a0millennia, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/exercisethismorning\/\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,6],"tags":[139,260],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running","category-stupidity","tag-exercise","tag-pain-sticks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-zH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}