{"id":14610,"date":"2015-07-03T16:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T21:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14610"},"modified":"2015-07-03T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T21:21:52","slug":"brians-gym-trick-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/brians-gym-trick-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian&#8217;s Gym Trick of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I&#8217;m doing sets at the gym, lifting tiny amounts of weight with great difficulty, I find myself counting the reps.  I marvel at things like the number 3 and 4 and pause for a long while to reflect upon their essential nature in the cosmos, and I stop pushing or pulling because, man, those numbers are <em>big<\/em> and <em>meaningful<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That is, when I count by ones, my effort tends to dwindle when I get to certain numbers in the set, and I stop a little earlier than I can.<\/p>\n<p>The last couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve tried something different.  Instead of counting by ones, I start counting my sets using multiples of another number.  I start counting by fives, or I start counting by sixes.  So I do 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Doing it this way engages my brain as I go along, so I don&#8217;t get to about the sixth rep and think, <em>Man, this bar is heavy.<\/em>  Instead, I&#8217;m worrying about remembering the next number in the sequence.  Which leads me to get more reps in.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I get to tell people I only did 56 or 81 reps in the last set.  Also, if I get to the multiple of 12 in a set, Mrs. Perkins will give me a gold star.  On the other hand, once I get <em>really<\/em> good at my multiplication tables, the trick will lose its efficacy.  Or I&#8217;ll start having to work with larger numbers until I memorize enough multiplication to get a job as a mentalist at the county fair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/the-source-of-that-thing-daddys-always-going-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">And I can&#8217;t stop saying bro, bro.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I&#8217;m doing sets at the gym, lifting tiny amounts of weight with great difficulty, I find myself counting the reps. I marvel at things like the number 3 and 4 and pause for a long while to reflect upon their essential nature in the cosmos, and I stop pushing or pulling because, man, those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14612,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions\/14612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}