{"id":4060,"date":"2007-11-05T20:05:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:49:39","slug":"health-update-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4060","title":{"rendered":"Health Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back on August 13th I posted about how disappointed I was with my fitness Tom Faranda’s Folly: Health update<\/strong><\/a>; with my inability to complete my simple bench press test, and how puffed I was walking up Breakneck Ridge. I said I’d have to "step it up" in the gym.<\/p>\n

Well, I am doing better. My performance is better in the gym, on both the exercise bike and the ellyptical trainer, and my endurance when I went on the lemon squeezer walk was fine.Tom Faranda’s Folly: Through the Lemon Squeezer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And my bench press is getting there. My test for years was to do five sets of five repetitions with my knees bent and feet up on the bench. I used the bar and two big discs (135 Lbs. – peanuts to most of my rugby friends) and took a minute between sets. <\/p>\n

I am getting close. Did six sets of three reps yesterday, so I think by the end of the month I’ll be back to my old, mediocre, standard. <\/p>\n

I’ve also made a BIG change in when I go to the gym. Since I drop Joe at the train station around 6:30 in the AM, it makes sense to go to the gym at that point (the gym is two minutes from the train station and three minutes from my house – I’ve no excuses!). This morning I did 30 minutes of cardio, stretched, and did my whole weight routine before 8AM. If someone told me a year ago I’d be in the gym lifting weights early in the morning, I would have rolled around the floor laughing. Of course, a few people get to the gym at 5AM and do their whole routine. <\/p>\n

I am scheduled for a CT scan as part of my quarterly check up (CAT scans are every 6 months) on November 28th. Then I see Dr. Zelenetz a week later on December 5th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back on August 13th I posted about how disappointed I was with my fitness Tom Faranda’s Folly: Health update; with my inability to complete my simple bench press test, and how puffed I was walking up Breakneck Ridge. I said I’d have to "step it up" in the gym. Well, I am doing better. My […]<\/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-4060","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\/4060","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=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}