{"id":1061,"date":"2014-02-18T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2014-02-18T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T07:22:00","slug":"fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2014\/02\/fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t blog about secret projects I&#8217;m working on, so how about something completely different?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve improved my fitness level substantially over the last five years. (On index cards, I have my daily weight and body fat percentage, according to the bathroom scale, back to November 2009). Here&#8217;s some things I&#8217;ve learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moving counts. A lot. The difference between being completely sedentary and moving a bit (easy walks, standing desk, etc.) is the biggest leap. Everything after that is incremental.<\/li>\n<li>Spending $99 in a Fitbit is the best health investment I&#8217;ve made, dollar-for-dollar, ever.<\/li>\n<li>Expensive shoes don&#8217;t help much. My current main shoes were $40 online, and they&#8217;re just as good, if not better, than the $120 shoes from Roadrunner.<\/li>\n<li>Pilates looks easy if you&#8217;ve never tried it.<\/li>\n<li>Once you reach a certain level, you will plateau there unless you challenge yourself further.<\/li>\n<li>Strength training is helpful for just about everything, even improving your running times.<\/li>\n<li>Foam rollers are super useful for managing sore muscles and tendons. Highly-recommended.<\/li>\n<li>Boosting your VO<sub>2<\/sub>Max is painful&#8211;interval training is the gasping-for-air kind of torture many people think of when they hear the word &#8216;exercise&#8217;&#8211;but it&#8217;s also important if you want to improve your run times.<\/li>\n<li>But you shouldn&#8217;t try to improve your run times or anything else unless you have specific bigger-picture goals in mind.<\/li>\n<li>Seriously&#8211;sitting is terrible for you. Get a standing desk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Invest in yourself. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t blog about secret projects I&#8217;m working on, so how about something completely different? I&#8217;ve improved my fitness level substantially over the last five years. (On index cards, I have my daily weight and body fat percentage, according to the bathroom scale, back to November 2009). Here&#8217;s some things I&#8217;ve learned: Moving counts. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,284,512],"tags":[264,1138,1139,636],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everythingismiscellaneous","category-geekthoughts","category-lifehacks","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-investment","tag-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8eo8l-fitness","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}