{"id":1235,"date":"2010-03-10T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2010-03-10T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:38:52","slug":"gym-and-tonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Gym And Tonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am feeling the effects of spring after all. For the last few days I have actually been able to turn off my heating system. That&#8217;s very nice. Over the winter my heating bill has been quite large. Twice as big as last year I think. I have been prepared for that, though. I have the finances to afford the luxury of not freezing. I really need to turn up the heat at night, otherwise my poor circulation will leave my feet frozen. I think the normal advice is to lower the heat during the night. So I am a little vice versa in that respect.  A couple of years ago I would usually turn off the heat entirely during the night, even at winter. Things change.<\/p>\n<p>Have I mentioned that I bought some new fitness equipment? Nothing spectatcular. Just a starter pack. With a matt, a gym ball, a massage ball, a pilates band and a pump. For the balls. To go with my dumbbells and the stationary bike (did you know that &#8220;The Stationary Bike&#8221; is the title of a Stephen King short story?). So now I can have a little more variation when I am exercising. Nothing I&#8217;m going to go overboard with, though. It&#8217;s a little hard to find good exercises, when you can hardly see the illustrations. I find it hard to really visualize them from text descriptions. But a little bit is better than nothing. I could be doing a lot more exercising than I am doing, but I am slowly adding more and more stuff, more and more time. For a guy who is pretty lazy at heart, I think I&#8217;m doing okay. I am doing something every day, maybe not a full program every day, but something. I kinda wish I could get more equipment. Real stuff. A treadmill, a rowing machine, a crosstrainer. Some ribs would be nice. That weightlifting machine. And a personal trainer to talk me through the exercises. You think I could fit all that in my tiny apartment? Basically I want to have the gym from the Reva Center back. Remember that? A little room full of professional equipment that I had pretty much to myself most of the time, plus a trainer with a charming british accent who helped me with the basics and then let me do my own thing. That was neat. I could especially use some guidance with the back exercises. I have back pains quite often. When sitting at the computer for longer stretches of time. Or walking. I&#8217;m trying to do some exercises for it, I just hope I&#8217;m not making it all worse.<\/p>\n<p>It would really be a good idea to actually join a proper gym. But realistically speaking I know, it&#8217;s just not going to happen. With the blindness and the phobia and the laziness. I could tell you I would try, but I would be lying. I&#8217;m doing the best I can, though.<\/p>\n<p>Also still enjoying the remainders of mama&#8217;s soup and planning to go see the animals tomorrow. And my birthday is on Monday. Monday! MONDAY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am feeling the effects of spring after all. For the last few days I have actually been able to turn off my heating system. That&#8217;s very nice. Over the winter my heating bill has been quite large. Twice as big as last year I think. I have been prepared for that, though. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}