{"id":1179,"date":"2014-10-01T02:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T02:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2015-03-02T05:38:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T05:38:18","slug":"august-10-ante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/august-10-ante\/","title":{"rendered":"August 10 &#8211; Ante up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/August-10th-Workout_295x166.jpg\" alt=\"August 10th Workout\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/>I was starting to lose my reasons for posting workout videos online. I first started recording so that I would see my form, and see how my body was changing.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t posting the videos\u00a0for the praise on Facebook. \u00a0Once I started to post, I got worried that it looked like bragging.<\/p>\n<p>I get really self-conscious about not looking the way that I want to.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3808-200x300.png\" alt=\"IMG_3808\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Then\u00a0I got a\u00a0text from a college buddy. \u00a0I hadn&#8217;t spoken with him in years. \u00a0If he had said &#8220;keep going, you&#8217;ll get better&#8221; or &#8220;we&#8217;re all rooting for you&#8221;, \u00a0I would have appreciated it, but it would not have struck as deep a chord as &#8220;u inspire folks you never met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I was in the hospital, I was getting tremendous support from people, encouraging me to be strong. \u00a0Some of the people I hadn&#8217;t even met, but they reached out to me, and every word, every text, made a difference. The world came together for me.\u00a0It keeps\u00a0me thinking &#8220;How can I give back?&#8221;\u00a0Should I\u00a0visit people in the hospital? Volunteer at a soup kitchen? \u00a0I wanted to help, but hadn&#8217;t figured out the best way to do it. \u00a0Then I find out I was helping in ways that I hadn&#8217;t imagined. I was <em>inspiring<\/em>. That&#8217;s more than charity. That&#8217;s bringing someone to find\u00a0their inner strength to make a change in their own lives. It&#8217;s learning to believe in yourself. I never thought I could do anything like that by accident. Now I had a chance to\u00a0inspire\u00a0people I hadn&#8217;t even met. To think I was about to cut that off because I was concerned about\u00a0my own worries. Luckily that didn&#8217;t happen. So the videos\u00a0continue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This workout consisted of step-ups, lower back rows, and some simple stretches. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t account for doing pushups while\u00a0being covered in ants. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t stop the workout, but this was the last time I planned\u00a0to use this location. The ants were there first, they can keep that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/103102047?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was starting to lose my reasons for posting workout videos online. I first started recording so that I would see my form, and see how my body was changing. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/august-10-ante\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 10 &#8211; Ante up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[13,18],"class_list":["post-1179","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\/1179","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=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/2450"}],"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=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}