{"id":165,"date":"2008-06-06T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/the-key-to-successful-cardio-a-good-book\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:05:33","slug":"the-key-to-successful-cardio-a-good-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/the-key-to-successful-cardio-a-good-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Key To Successful Cardio&#8230; A Good Book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/the-joy-of-lifting\/\">with Elissa on this one<\/a>&#8230; I love lifting weight.<\/p>\n<p>But cardio&#8230; uh, well&#8230; that&#8217;s a different story.<\/p>\n<p>I do cardio because I have to. For the cardio-pulminary benefits it offers. And because if I&#8217;m really serious about trimming back some of the winter flab, it&#8217;s cardio that does it. Yep. Two to three weeks of cardio (3-4 25 minutes sessions at moderate intensity per week) and my pants start falling down. Every time. It works like clockwork.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So I do it. Begrudgingly. Sometimes it&#8217;s bearable. Sometimes I grit my teeth and watch the timer. Other times, like last night, the times &#8220;flies&#8221; by. In fact, I was astounded to find I had exceeded my time by 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Wow!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the difference between an teeth-grindingly tedious session and a great one? For me, it&#8217;s not music; it&#8217;s a good book. Something intriguing. Something thought provoking. And most importantly, something\u00a0that takes you away. Last night&#8217;s read had me so distracted, I forgot all about the cardio!<\/p>\n<p>Wow!<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; what works for you? Tunes? A great read? A portable TV in the basement?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your best strategies for\u00a0surviving cardio. Maybe it\u00a0will make life easier for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m with Elissa on this one&#8230; I love lifting weight. But cardio&#8230; uh, well&#8230; that&#8217;s a different story. I do cardio because I have to. For the cardio-pulminary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11],"tags":[317,613,1037,1676,1682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7980,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}