{"id":1310,"date":"2013-04-13T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2025-01-12T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:38:12","slug":"first-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"First workout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an effort to finally get back in some kind of reasonable physical condition, I&#8217;ve started going to the gym again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, my wonderful wife took care of getting me (and Dennis) signed up at Goodlife where she was already a member. Today I did my orientation and a first workout: all 9 machines of the &#8220;basic&#8221; set, twice, 12 reps on each, followed by 15 minutes on the stairmaster. Of course, all of that on settings so low that I suspect catatonics could keep up, but in any case, it&#8217;s done, in just under an hour of steady work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now all I have to do is keep going regularly. I could imagine getting there twice a week, but I doubt I&#8217;ll be able to do more than that. I guess we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to finally get back in some kind of reasonable physical condition, I&#8217;ve started going to the gym again. Last week, my wonderful wife took care of getting me (and Dennis) signed up at Goodlife where she was already a member. Today I did my orientation and a first workout: all 9 machines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}