{"id":39,"date":"2005-06-25T02:28:24","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T17:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-06-25\/39"},"modified":"2006-09-22T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T01:35:52","slug":"my-dad-can-kick-your-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-06-25\/39","title":{"rendered":"My dad can kick your butt!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

I have had back problems for the last few years, and although I do<\/span> a lot<\/span>\nof stretching which seems to help at times, overall it's more bad than\ngood. My dad has<\/span> suggested that I do<\/span> situps, and he reiterated it again\nthis morning (I'm in Ohio now for the next month). He remembers<\/span> reading in\nReader's Digest 40<\/span>+ years ago about how an imbalance between the back\nmuscles (which get a good<\/span> workout in daily life) and the stomach muscles\n(which apparently don't) can create back problems.<\/p>\n\n

My dad is in his 70s, is arthritic, has bad shoulders, and hasn't had a\ngood<\/span> night's sleep in 10+ years. But, he runs a little<\/span> every weekday, and\nafter each run does one minute of situps. I asked<\/span> him to show me how he\ndoes situps, and he got onto the living room floor, stuck his feet under a\nLa<\/span>-Z-Boy, and started doing normal full-range situps at the rate of about\none per second. He stopped<\/span> after 50. It took about<\/span> a minute.<\/span> I watched<\/span> in\nwide-eyed wonder and amazement.<\/p>\n\n

Normally, he watches a clock to time his minute, and gets about 45, so\nit's 1.25 sec each. He's never<\/span> actually done 60 in a minute,<\/span> but it's still\nextremely impressive even not considering his age.<\/p>\n\n

When I was in 7th grade, I had the<\/span> school-system (K-12) record for\nsitups: 102 in two minutes, but those days are long past. My back simply<\/span>\nhurts to much to do them. I'll have to ask Alan (who has a masters<\/span> in\nsports physiology) how I might<\/span> work on that.<\/p>\n\n

In any case, I was cool<\/span> to see him kick some serious sit-up butt. Think\nyou're in shape? See if you<\/span> can pound out 45 situps in a minute.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have had back problems for the last few years, and although I do a lot of stretching which seems to help at times, overall it's more bad than good. My dad has suggested that I do situps, and he reiterated it again this morning (I'm in Ohio now for the next month). He remembers reading in Reader's Digest 40+ years ago about how an imbalance between the back muscles (which get a good workout in daily life) and the stomach muscles (which apparently don't) can create back problems.<\/p>

My dad is in his 70s, is arthritic, has bad shoulders, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}