{"id":384,"date":"2013-11-23T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/?p=384"},"modified":"2013-11-23T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:37:12","slug":"some-ups-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"some ups &#038; downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve haven&#8217;t been spending much time at my computer,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been either knitting furiously on the my couch till the wee hours of the morning or at the gym and lifting club.<\/p>\n<p>And it was been a bag of mixed results from the gym.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a low point &#8211; had a work out that left me for the first time not only gasping for breath on the floor but crying. I felt so defeated from it I just lost it. Usually I&#8217;m to stubborn t o start to cry or give up. I may slow down, but not stop. Part of it may be a case of sports induced asthma, which I can&#8217;t rule out for sure until I have health care and can afford a doctor visit. Not being able to breath is a tough thing to just work through.<\/p>\n<p>High point last week, I have been doing a training routine at the gym called Smolov Jr for about 4 weeks. That&#8217;s meant to increase your push press and back squat numbers. So last week we retested and I got 2 new PR&#8217;s! My push press increased 15 lb. to 125 and my back squat went up 20 lb. to 205. I didn&#8217;t fail any of my attempts either, so given more time I may be able to improve those yet. My fiancee hit his lifetime goal for his back squat too, 405 pounds!<br \/>\nWe were both flying high that day. The next we were pretty sore.<\/p>\n<p>Then high point again on last Sunday, at lifting club, I made my goal for my dead lift, I lifted 205.<\/p>\n<p>And \u00a0yesterday major low point again, I woke up with a sore neck\/shoulder on my left side. I went to the gym any way thinking I would work it out.<br \/>\nNope.<br \/>\nI completed 6 push-ups and the pain doubled, I could barely move my neck, my arm started going numb. So I left early, by the time I&#8217;d gotten home it was worse. It hurts so much, I can barely knit.<\/p>\n<p>I hate just lying around, I like to be doing something always, and injuries like this or when I&#8217;m really sick make me unable to do anything else. You just lay there suffering. Maybe watching some horrible TV show or something.<br \/>\nMaybe the universe is trying to tell me to take it easy more, that I need to find peace in just sitting there.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s a challenge from the universe to see if I&#8217;ll ever finish all our x-mas gifts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve haven&#8217;t been spending much time at my computer, I&#8217;ve been either knitting furiously on the my couch till the wee hours of the morning or at the gym and lifting club. And it was been a bag of mixed results from the gym. Last week, a low point &#8211; had a work out that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/?p=384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">some ups &#038; downs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rainymorning.com\/blob\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}