{"id":6873,"date":"2013-12-11T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2013-12-11T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T15:44:54","slug":"off-season-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=6873","title":{"rendered":"Off-Season Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the weather was terrible over the weekend, and just yesterday I finally ventured out to ride a tiny bit while the sun was out and the temp was &gt;40, I don&#8217;t have a bunch to post about. I&#8217;ve been running a bit, but I&#8217;ve also been going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanfitnesskickboxing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Fitness Kickboxing<\/a> gym two times a week to do a class they call &#8220;Body Focus&#8221; as well as an MMA class.<\/p>\n<p>The Body Focus class is a resistance training circuit class. It&#8217;s generally broken down into a warmup, an upper body circuit, and a lower body (abs\/legs) circuit. I like that it&#8217;s mostly compound exercises, and that it includes some plyometrics and explosive exercises. I knew my upper body was scrawny, but I feel like a T-rex during the first half of class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6874\" alt=\"rex\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rex-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rex-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rex-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/rex.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The MMA class is intense. It started with Jujitsu last week and we&#8217;re adding in some punching and kicking this week. The harder parts of class are similar in intensity to a 3-minute bike interval, except that it&#8217;s full-contact and involves both brute strength and a lot of skill. As an added bonus, I generally leave class with about as many incidental bruises as you would expect from a moderate mountain bike crash.<\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S FREAKING AWESOME, AND I LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but gravitate towards things that are incredibly challenging.<\/p>\n<p>My challenge now is to take my saw and hack my way down the trail near my house. The baby ice storm that came through resulted in a lot of hanging privet and a couple of downed trees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the weather was terrible over the weekend, and just yesterday I finally ventured out to ride a tiny bit while the sun was out and the temp was &gt;40, I don&#8217;t have a bunch to post about. I&#8217;ve been running a bit, but I&#8217;ve also been going to the Urban Fitness Kickboxing gym two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-1MR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}