{"id":695,"date":"2009-10-21T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:57:31","slug":"gym-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Gym Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So I joined the gym and lost my 20 lbs and I look <em>almost<\/em>like I did before kids&#8230; except for my middle.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet everyone says sit-ups and crunches are\u00a0NOT the way to fix my middle.\u00a0 Jimmy the trainer says working the ab muscles will only make them bigger, not slimmer.\u00a0\u00a0 Core muscles\u00a0are the\u00a0key&#8230; \u00a0so sayeth all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And the weak part of my core are my back muscles.\u00a0 So I changed my workout adding a lot of upper body machines and doing them 3 days a week and legs the other 2 days a week.\u00a0\u00a0 And every day I do some sort of ab workout on a mat.\u00a0 I work machines that have me pulling and pushing weight at different angles&#8230; all trying to build my back\u00a0and shoulder muscles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet, something occurred to me today.\u00a0 I hold my stress in my upper shoulders.\u00a0 Sometimes so much stress, it creeps up my neck and gives me a migraine headache.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it wise to make stronger a muscle that tightens up when I get stressed?\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll have to look into massage therapy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Ooooo a masseuse!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I joined the gym and lost my 20 lbs and I look almostlike I did before kids&#8230; except for my middle.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet everyone says sit-ups and crunches are\u00a0NOT the way to fix my middle.\u00a0 Jimmy the trainer says working &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twirling-my-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}