{"id":4323,"date":"2009-09-04T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2009-09-04T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:45:20","slug":"exercise-ruts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/09\/04\/exercise-ruts\/","title":{"rendered":"Routine versus Rut #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4324\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"hamster on a wheel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hamster-on-a-wheel.jpg\" alt=\"hamster on a wheel\" width=\"129\" height=\"146\" \/>When is a routine good and when is it bad?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou have a plan everyday to fit in what you need to get done, including a workout!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou do the same workout everyday in the gym. You don&#8217;t want to just be a hamster on a wheel!<\/p>\n<p>Planning an hour for exercise everyday is great, but you want to make sure that you are really making that time count.\u00c2\u00a0 Doing a 3 mile jog and the same 6 weight- lifting exercises is not going to be your best plan. I&#8217;m a big fan of cross-training but even if you just bike everyday, you can mix up the routes that you travel and the intensity in which you travel them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change your intensity &#8211; maybe even do slow vs fast intervals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Switch exercises or cardio method &#8211; maybe try a hike this weekend or swim a few laps!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reverse your path &#8211; only like to run? Instead of your usual loop, loop it in reverse!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just a few ideas to help you mix up your exercising and help to keep you safe from repetitive motion injuries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is a routine good and when is it bad? Good: You have a plan everyday to fit in what you need to get done, including a workout! Bad: You do the same workout everyday in the gym. You don&#8217;t want to just be a hamster on a wheel! Planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,525,528,12,530,527,23,225,531,529,93,370,28,53,532,21,13,526],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-cardio","tag-daily-routine","tag-exercise","tag-exercise-motivation","tag-exercise-routine","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness-tips","tag-get-fit","tag-gym-rut","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-personal-fitness","tag-productivity","tag-wellbeing","tag-wellnes","tag-withamymac","tag-workout","tag-workout-rut"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}