{"id":17337,"date":"2016-12-02T09:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=17337"},"modified":"2016-12-02T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:15:23","slug":"fitness-friday-taking-a-week-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2016\/12\/fitness-friday-taking-a-week-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Friday: Taking A Week Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2016\/12\/fitness-friday-taking-a-week-off\/knee_sleeves_barbella_socks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17339\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/knee_sleeves_barbella_socks.jpg\" alt=\"knee_sleeves_barbella_socks\" width=\"507\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/knee_sleeves_barbella_socks.jpg 507w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/knee_sleeves_barbella_socks-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took the week off from training and did absolutely nothing. \u00a0Not a damn thing but stuff around the house and I also binged on Criminal Minds. \u00a0It was glorious and also difficult.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t something planned out but something I decided on last minute. \u00a0I realized the past few weeks that I&#8217;ve been getting tired more easily and feeling a lot more joint aches after workouts.<\/p>\n<p>Going 5 days a week to workout was not a big deal but lately it&#8217;s been a struggle. \u00a0My body gets so worn out and exhausted that I end up taking a day off.<\/p>\n<p>It sucks. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t a place I want to be. \u00a0It makes me feel like my body is falling apart. \u00a0The worst is that it makes me feel like I&#8217;m <em>old<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I hate feeling old.<\/p>\n<p>So this week I decided to just chill and give my body a full on break. \u00a0It was difficult because I like working out and I like seeing my FitFam each day.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I said it, FitFam. My gym is my second home. I miss lifting that bar and cursing with each stupid burpee.<\/p>\n<p>But I feel like\u00a0my body just needed this down time. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be back next week and hopefully this rest will prove to have been helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever taken a break from training?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the week off from training and did absolutely nothing. \u00a0Not a damn thing but stuff around the house and I also binged on Criminal Minds. \u00a0It was glorious and also difficult. This wasn&#8217;t something planned out but something I decided on last minute. \u00a0I realized the past few weeks that I&#8217;ve been getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,52,51],"tags":[117,118],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4vD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}