{"id":1153,"date":"2014-08-06T16:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2015-03-02T05:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T05:38:39","slug":"august-6-first-workout-since-brain-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/august-6-first-workout-since-brain-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"August 6 &#8211; First Workout Since Brain Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1155 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/August-6th-Workout_295x166.jpg\" alt=\"August 6th Workout_295x166\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/>The hardest part of this workout, like most things was getting it started. There were plenty of reasons to keep me from getting myself going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s too hot\/\u00a0I&#8217;ll do it after I take my meds\/Meds make me feel nasty, I&#8217;ll do it tonight\/Tonight I want to watch this movie, I&#8217;ll do it tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really easy to reason yourself into accomplishing nothing.\u00a0My latest one was that I didn&#8217;t have the right shoes, since my feet had swollen so much I didn&#8217;t know what size I wore anymore. When I told <a title=\"Flip AAA Fitness\" href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/flipaaa\">FlipAAA<\/a> this, he showed up at the door and said he was going to look at some stuff at Ross, and that we could check out some shoes. \u00a0We walked in and there was a pair of size 10.5 Brooks shoes that were the exact style\u00a0I wanted.\u00a0But they didn&#8217;t fit.\u00a0Oh well, I tried.<\/p>\n<p>Flip found a size 11.5; Also too tight. Then we found a pair of size 12. Fit like a glove. And the price? $30. They were practically giving them away. We walked out with a new pair of shoes.\u00a0So that excuse was gone.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, I made my way to the track, with a plan to do 4 laps around the track, 10 pushups, and 10 squats after each lap. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t too physically demanding. It was only taking a step over the biggest hurdle I had in my way; the mental block. \u00a0Once I stepped over that Great Wall,\u00a0the rest of the path was right in front of me. \u00a0I&#8217;m planning to stay on it, every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/103102050?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest part of this workout, like most things was getting it started. There were plenty of reasons to keep me from getting myself going. &#8220;It&#8217;s too hot\/\u00a0I&#8217;ll do it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/august-6-first-workout-since-brain-surgery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 6 &#8211; First Workout Since Brain Surgery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[13,18],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recovery-and-exercise","category-shakablog","tag-exercise","tag-recovery","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}