{"id":276,"date":"2015-09-22T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/?p=276"},"modified":"2020-04-03T00:53:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:53:52","slug":"focus-t25-week-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Focus T25 Week 5-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272\" style=\"width: 946px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150922a_total_117bpm_0-14-12_10cpm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-272\" src=\"http:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150922a_total_117bpm_0-14-12_10cpm.png\" alt=\"Fitbit data - 117bpm; 0 min. peak, 14 min. cardio, 12 min. fat burn; 10 cal\/min.\" width=\"946\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150922a_total_117bpm_0-14-12_10cpm.png 946w, https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150922a_total_117bpm_0-14-12_10cpm-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fitbit data &#8211; 117bpm; 0 min. peak, 14 min. cardio, 12 min. fat burn; 10 cal\/min.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Focus T25 Day 21 (Total Body)<\/p>\n<p>277 calories<\/p>\n<p>Barely made it.<\/p>\n<p>Week 5 begins. And it was a disaster. The break from the program really did a number on my endurance. I was unable to keep up with the planks and jogged instead. My punches were weak at the end. All in all, I did a terrible job.<\/p>\n<p>I had been contemplating earlier whether to repeat the Alpha stage at the end of the five weeks. After today&#8217;s performance, I&#8217;m leaning that way. If the Beta program builds on this one, then I&#8217;m going to be in trouble. If I&#8217;m barely making it through the Alpha stage, then it&#8217;s probably not worth it to continue to Beta.<\/p>\n<p>So after this week, I plan to restart Alpha.<\/p>\n<p>About this blog, it&#8217;s largely for me to put my thoughts down to track progress. But I also thought it would be helpful for those beginning the program to read what it&#8217;s like for a regular guy to start the program. I suspect, through 5 weeks, you&#8217;ll probably get the gist of it, so I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m going to continue with giving daily updates, especially when I&#8217;m restarting the Alpha program. Maybe I will, maybe I won&#8217;t. And then I&#8217;ll have to make another decision in about six weeks when I will be ready for the Beta program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Focus T25 Day 21 (Total Body) 277 calories Barely made it. Week 5 begins. And it was a disaster. The break from the program really did a number on my endurance. I was unable to keep up with the planks and jogged instead. My punches were weak at the end. All in all, I did a terrible job. I had been contemplating earlier whether to repeat the Alpha stage at the end of the five weeks. After today&#8217;s performance, I&#8217;m leaning that way. If the Beta program builds on this one, then I&#8217;m going to be in trouble. If I&#8217;m barely making it through the Alpha stage, then it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-fitbit","tag-t25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justsilence.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}