{"id":1158,"date":"2014-08-08T11:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2015-03-02T05:38:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T05:38:31","slug":"august-8-pulling-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/august-8-pulling-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"August 8 &#8211; Pulling your weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1160 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/August-8-Workout_295x166.jpg\" alt=\"August 8 Workout\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/>Pull-ups have been an obsession of mine for at least the past 10 years. Hanging with guys like Tracy, Psyon, Eddie,\u00a0<a title=\"Lonny The Street Lawyer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LonnyTheStreetLawyer\">Lonny The Street Lawyer<\/a>, Rukus, and Nelson will make every meeting be a choice between doing push-ups, pull-ups or both. That&#8217;s because we are Salsa dancers. \u00a0I always kept a pull-up bar available. We kept one at the ClaveKazi studio. I had one at home.\u00a0I peaked out at 30 pull-ups before I decided to add some weight, hanging plates off a belt around my waist. Then we tried one-arm ones. Anyway, that was then. Fast forward to now.<\/p>\n<p>This pull-up bar sits at the <a title=\"SouthBeach Volley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.SouthBeachVolley.com\">SouthBeach Volleyball Courts<\/a>, and is an open invitation to anyone that wants to hop up there and show what they can do. \u00a0I want to get back to the point that I can knock out 10 on it without a thought. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t expect that from the first pull-up set in over a year. I also knew that every day I didn&#8217;t try to do one was another day that I wasn&#8217;t getting closer to 10. \u00a0The hard part for me is the feeling that everyone is looking at you, and you want to explain &#8220;I used to be able to do more but then I got sick and then&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But we all have a reason to explain why we can&#8217;t do something. Got to let that go and just try until you get it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/103102049?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pull-ups have been an obsession of mine for at least the past 10 years. Hanging with guys like Tracy, Psyon, Eddie,\u00a0Lonny The Street Lawyer, Rukus, and Nelson will make every &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/august-8-pulling-weight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 8 &#8211; Pulling your weight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[13,18],"class_list":["post-1158","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\/1158","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=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/2452"}],"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=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}