{"id":432,"date":"2011-07-22T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2011-07-22T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:18:08","slug":"brief-summer-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/brief-summer-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Summer Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t posted in quite a while. It turns out that a full-time job takes up a lot of, well, time. Normally, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d promise to post more in the near future, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t commit to that right now. I can promise that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be back to more regular posts in mid-September. <em>Think of it as a nice summer break from reading my silly thoughts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I have a post queued up to publish this afternoon, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want my explanation for lack of content forever embedded within that post.<\/p>\n<p>Brief update on what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing this summer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Still supplement free, though I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m planning on throwing in some fermented cod-liver oil starting this weekend.<\/li>\n<li>Mobility. A friend of mine turned me on to foam rolling, then my dad pointed me to Kelly Starrett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fabulous blog, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been mobilizing like crazy.<\/li>\n<li>As far as I can tell, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve totally cured my headaches. The culprit? A trigger point, or muscle knot, in my trapezius between my right shoulder blade and spine. A few sessions with a lacrosse ball and said knot (and apparently the headaches) is history. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shell out $3000+ for MRIs prescribed by the neurologist.<\/li>\n<li>Learning everything I can about food reward and its implications for body fat management. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s endlessly entertaining and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve yet to find real limitations to this explanation for body fat regulation.<\/li>\n<li>Eating relatively high-carb (100-150 g\/day probably), and lots more fruit than before.<\/li>\n<li>HIIT 2x per week.<\/li>\n<li>Hockey 1-2x per week.<\/li>\n<li>Playful strength work\/sprints\/mountain biking every day I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not doing more.<\/li>\n<li>No logging my body weight, no tracking my intake.<\/li>\n<li>I had been planning to IF on a more random schedule, but that quickly became skipping breakfast every weekday (and most Saturdays). Less breakfast = more sleep.<\/li>\n<li>I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lost much muscle, which I find surprising given that I left a schedule of weights and rest for less strength work and more activity.<\/li>\n<li>I did my first muscle up and touched my toes while standing for the first time in 10 years. Kind of embarrassing that I hit 400# deadlifts and near 500# squats without these basic abilities.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found I need much more salt to stay hydrated. 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It turns out that a full-time job takes up a lot of, well, time. Normally, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d promise to post more in the near future, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t commit to that right now. I can promise that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be back to more regular posts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrevo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}