{"id":1252,"date":"2010-07-05T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T23:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2010-07-14T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:10:38","slug":"jogging-body-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/jogging-body-maintenance","title":{"rendered":"Jogging &#8211; Body Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few days I rushed into a running routine and it has had some excellent effects on my mood. A friend of mine told me that three 1 hour, blood-pumping exercise routines per week can substitute anti-depressants. A quick search revealed <a href=\"http:\/\/health.msn.com\/fitness\/running\/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100204887\">this MSN article<\/a> that does a good job in explaining the grey areas of exercise vs medications.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the day after a 3.3 mile jog, my hips were stiff and sore.  I suppose this was a reminder that you have to ease yourself back into activity. Luckily, I&#8217;ve taken yoga in the past and there&#8217;s a few great stretches you can do to loosen up the hips. I found this video online that has a few simple stretches to get started on. Pay attention to how she uses the blankets, as I tried doing some of these stretches without them, and it was very uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XaLrO1W86ao&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XaLrO1W86ao&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I run in the middle of the day, usually around 2-3pm. For the past few days I&#8217;ve been pushing over 3 miles. The neighborhoods down here are perfect for jogs or walking.  Plenty of smooth hills and rounded turns. Though I&#8217;ve never understood runners in the past, I am now addicted. My sweaty meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Wha?!  It&#8217;s actually sunny outside!  I&#8217;m off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few days I rushed into a running routine and it has had some excellent effects on my mood. A friend of mine told me that three 1 hour, blood-pumping exercise routines per week can substitute anti-depressants. A quick search revealed this MSN article that does a good job in explaining the grey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}