{"id":1530,"date":"2008-01-16T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T14:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/01\/16\/i-knew-nothing-good-could-come-from-goi"},"modified":"2008-01-16T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T14:31:32","slug":"i-knew-nothing-good-could-come-from-going-to-the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/01\/16\/i-knew-nothing-good-could-come-from-going-to-the-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"I Knew Nothing Good Could Come From Going to the Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, that may be a bit of exaggeration. In fact, I am beginning to notice a difference in my arms\/chest (Randy even says I now have distinguishable pecs!). I can&#8217;t see the difference, but I can feel the difference when I bend my arm and my forearm touches my upper arm (bicep?) much earlier than it used to. Does that make sense?<\/p>\n<p>But there are some negative effects I&#8217;ve noticed, too. First, I&#8217;ve freaking gained weight. Yes, gained weight. I met Randy at 164 pounds. A year later I was up to 180 or so. Since starting at the gym in October, I&#8217;ve ballooned up to 187! What&#8217;s up with that? All this work and I&#8217;m gaining? Randy thinks it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve developed muscle (and muscle weighs more).<\/p>\n<p>Screw the muscle&#8230;I just want to be comfortable in my 32 jeans.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the second negative side effect is that I was very nearly mortally wounded last night on the leg-press thingy. A ridiculously located metal bar was protruding from the base. And when I stepped out of the torture device (I mean, equipment), I rammed my thigh into it. Now I&#8217;ve got this swollen black and blue mark with a divot of skin removed. I just know I&#8217;m going to get MRSI or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, that may be a bit of exaggeration. In fact, I am beginning to notice a difference in my arms\/chest (Randy even says I now have distinguishable pecs!). I can&#8217;t see the difference, but I can feel the difference when I bend my arm and my forearm touches my upper arm (bicep?) much earlier than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}