{"id":68,"date":"2013-07-22T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charanis.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2013-09-29T15:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T20:58:53","slug":"running-vs-grass-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charanis.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/running-vs-grass-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Running vs. Grass Cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a fitness comparison for you. Why we 21st Century Americans have to exercise.<br \/>\nWe have a push reel mower and a power mower. Daniel (my son) has been cutting the grass with the push mower. Its a nice cut &#8211; especially with the bermuda grass. He is away for 3+ weeks, so I get to cut the grass &#8211; and its a workout! Imagine though &#8211; if you did this three times a week (the only way to get a real golf course finish) &#8211; no need to do a 30 minute aerobic workout!<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/charanis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Run-v-Chores.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71\" alt=\"Run-v-Chores\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/charanis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Run-v-Chores-300x125.jpg?resize=300%2C125\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.charanis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Run-v-Chores.jpg?resize=300%2C125&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.charanis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Run-v-Chores.jpg?resize=1024%2C426&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.charanis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Run-v-Chores.jpg?w=1166&amp;ssl=1 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you will agree, however, that I&#8217;ve got to get my act together in terms of my aerobic fitness. My heart used to be in much better shape. And its been over a week as its been raining so the grass was too long. Lets see what its like on Wednesday &#8211; if its not raining.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full details on <a title=\"running log on Garmin Connect\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/346838316\">Garmin Connect<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/346838316\" height=\"548\" width=\"465\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a fitness comparison for you. Why we 21st Century Americans have to exercise. We have a push reel mower and a power mower. Daniel (my son) has been cutting the grass with the push mower. Its a nice&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.charanis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130929-165818.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mX8K-16","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29563,"url":"https:\/\/www.charanis.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/quality-workout\/","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":0},"title":"Quality Workout","author":"Jimmyc","date":"August 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Week two of my Phase 2 program under the Daniels's running formula. 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