{"id":605,"date":"2016-01-04T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/?p=605"},"modified":"2016-01-04T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:32:14","slug":"the-offseason-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/2016\/01\/04\/the-offseason-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Offseason is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_608\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12438985_10156429159905173_1290203492620989752_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking @ Vogel State Park\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-608\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12438985_10156429159905173_1290203492620989752_n-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12438985_10156429159905173_1290203492620989752_n-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12438985_10156429159905173_1290203492620989752_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiking @ Vogel State Park<\/p><\/div> Well, the new year also means that there offseason is officially over. It is now time to get back into gear, and get back to serious training.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I always find the period from Thanksgiving through New Years to be the hardest time to keep a consistent routine. It is a time when food, particularly, junk food, is constantly in reach, and the time when I usually train is consumed by time with extended family and friends that I don&#8217;t get to see most of the year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I tried something different, and I think it worked fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of trying to stay on a regimented plan, I simply set a base goal. Workout for at least 30 minutes 6 days a week. Workouts could be a run, a swim (not), core, or a bike ride. Included in the workout categories for the offseason were hikes, walking round of golf, and even casual jogs. Basically, anything that would elevate the heart rate.<\/p>\n<p>The intent? minimize the fitness loss while allowing the unstructured weeks to flow around the light schedule.  The result? I feel fresher than I have in months, and ready to jump back into the saddle, both figuratively and literally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the new year also means that there offseason is officially over. It is now time to get back into gear, and get back to serious training. Personally, I always find the period from Thanksgiving through New Years to be the hardest time to keep a consistent routine. It is a time when food, particularly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}