{"id":4633,"date":"2006-04-07T21:28:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T21:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:56:20","slug":"first_day_back_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4633","title":{"rendered":"First day back in the gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having gotten the OK from Dr. K. on Tuesday, today I went back to the gym. The last time I was there was January 8th, almost exactly three months ago. So this is a semi big deal. No more 25-28 minute walks or dumbbells in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been thinking about this for quite a while, and the original plan was to go on the bike for 15 minutes, do some stretching, and use the ellyptical trainer for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>What I actually did was the bike for 15 minutes (at level 7 &#8211; I used to go at level 9 so tht&#8217;s not too bad), 12 minutes of good stretching, but then only 8 minutes on the ellyptical. My legs were getting quite heavy on the ellyptical, it wasn&#8217;t so much my wind.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I am satisfied. I felt fine. There&#8217;s no rush and tomorrow I will ride the bike for 18-20 minutes, stretch , and then start on the weight machines. That will be very interesting!&nbsp; <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having gotten the OK from Dr. K. on Tuesday, today I went back to the gym. The last time I was there was January 8th, almost exactly three months ago. So this is a semi big deal. No more 25-28 minute walks or dumbbells in the gym. I&#8217;d been thinking about this for quite a [&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-4633","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\/4633","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=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}