{"id":988,"date":"2007-12-11T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/hurts-so-good"},"modified":"2007-12-11T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T04:09:12","slug":"hurts-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/hurts-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurts So Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday I promised my physical therapist that I would make it into the gym before our next visit. So, while taking a brief break from <a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/project-mostly-done\">The Project<\/a> on Sunday, I headed to the IMA for a little bit of a workout. I was pleasantly surprised with how far I&#8217;ve come in just the couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago, my hamstrings could barely lift my own lower leg at all. A week ago, I couldn&#8217;t curl even 25 pounds. Sunday, 25 pounds was difficult, but I was able to curl it 10 times for three sets without overexerting myself. Now, two days later, I&#8217;m feeling the first &#8220;good pain&#8221; that my legs have felt in a long time &#8212; the achy muscle pains of gaining back muscle tone and strength to my atrophied right leg.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a good start to the week in other ways as well. My CSE partner Remington&#8217;s work last night and this morning secured a 4.0 for us in our CSE class, and my physical therapist cleared me for riding my bike today. So for the first time in a long time, I rode my bike to school. It felt good, but next time I&#8217;m wearing my long fingered gloves :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday I promised my physical therapist that I would make it into the gym before our next visit. So, while taking a brief break from The Project on Sunday, I headed to the IMA for a little bit of a workout. I was pleasantly surprised with how far I&#8217;ve come in just the couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,18,9],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-life","tag-recreation","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}