{"id":229,"date":"2008-02-05T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2008\/02\/workout-day-7\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:04:57","slug":"workout-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2008\/02\/05\/workout-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Workout, Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hit my first goal<\/a>. I swam 500 metres.<\/p>\n

Now, Jeff<\/a> might not think that’s much, but I think it’s significant for someone who learned to swim at nearly 15, has never taken a swimming class, and started working out again a week ago.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I did:<\/p>\n

1. Front crawl: 250 m
\n2. Breast stroke: 250 m<\/p>\n

I even reduced my breaks. About half of my laps were free of breaks, and when I did break it was just a few seconds \u00e2\u20ac\u201d long enough to take my pulse.<\/p>\n

My next goal is to get to 1 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hit my first goal. I swam 500 metres. Now, Jeff might not think that’s much, but I think it’s significant for someone who learned to swim at nearly 15, has never taken a swimming class, and started working out again a week ago. Here’s what I did: 1. Front crawl: 250 m 2. Breast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-3H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2839,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2014\/07\/18\/stronglifts-5x5-250-lb-squats\/","url_meta":{"origin":229,"position":0},"title":"Stronglifts 5×5: 250 lb squats","author":"Kim Siever","date":"18 July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I hit another weightlifting milestone today: I squatted 250 lbs. 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