{"id":2765,"date":"2013-08-03T02:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T07:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2023-11-30T23:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:42:39","slug":"30-day-challenge-the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/08\/03\/30-day-challenge-the-gym","title":{"rendered":"30-day challenge: The Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"My favorite view. Don't listen to CNN, Seoul is awesome by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8719333410\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7382\/8719333410_305dc1e526_n.jpg?resize=320%2C320\" alt=\"My favorite view. Don't listen to CNN, Seoul is awesome\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>For the last month, I&#8217;ve had a 30-day challenge, inspired by Sara. She challenged me to going to the gym three times a week and spending one and a half hours each time. This is 4.5 hours of working out per week.<\/p>\n<p>I just unlocked this achievement yesterday. On average, I spend about an hour on the elliptical, I do abdominal crunches and then I go for a swim (something I always used to do). When travelling I don&#8217;t get what my home gym has, so I have also done the treadmill, cycling, chest presses, seated rows and some exercises for my back (this was especially required when I first started on this challenge).\u00a0Most times at the home gym, I rock up to the sauna afterward as well.<\/p>\n<p>Upon first starting I was pretty exhausted, but after about the first week it got easier and now it just seems like second nature. To pass time I listen to audiobooks so I&#8217;m learning as I go along.<\/p>\n<p>I completed the challenge in three cities across three continents: Kuala Lumpur, S\u00e3o Paulo, and Portland, Oregon. A big issue for me was the time spent on planes. Have I lost weight? No. Have I lost fat? Yes. Am I going to continue? Absolutely. Shorter than 1.5 hours each time, but I&#8217;m definitely going to continue.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I should head there now!<\/p>\n<p>(The picture in this post is the view from my favourite gym, the Park Club at <a href=\"http:\/\/seoul.park.hyatt.com\/en\/hotel\/home.html\">Park Hyatt Seoul<\/a>. I can&#8217;t wait to visit it soon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last month, I&#8217;ve had a 30-day challenge, inspired by Sara. She challenged me to going to the gym three times a week and spending one and a half hours each time. This is 4.5 hours of working out per week. I just unlocked this achievement yesterday. On average, I spend about an hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[1586,1564],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fitness","tag-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-IB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}