{"id":4005,"date":"2008-01-09T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:38:41","slug":"fabulous-feat-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4005","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous feat of strength in the gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well not really. But, AT LAST, I hit my goal of benchpressing five sets of five reps with the olympic bar and two large discs (135 lbs.), and one minute between sets. It&#8217;s what I used to do on a regular basis, going way back to my pre-chemotherapy days. I&#8217;ve posted about my trying to get back to it, more than a few times. Here&#8217;s a recent one: <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2007\/11\/health-update.html\"><strong>Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Health Update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been failing to quite make it for the last three weeks but in the gym around 6 this evening, I was able to complete the sets and reps pretty easily. Must be my biorhythm or something. <\/p>\n<p>I finally got to the goal with the standard training technique of doing heavier weights than my goal (pyramid style), but with fewer reps.<\/p>\n<p>So even though it&#8217;s no great shakes really, I am pleased with myself. It comes almost two years to the day since I went into Sloan Kettering for the high dose and stem cell transplant phase of my treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well not really. But, AT LAST, I hit my goal of benchpressing five sets of five reps with the olympic bar and two large discs (135 lbs.), and one minute between sets. It&#8217;s what I used to do on a regular basis, going way back to my pre-chemotherapy days. I&#8217;ve posted about my trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14257,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/14257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}