{"id":16857,"date":"2014-08-15T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16857"},"modified":"2014-08-15T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T01:00:19","slug":"backyard-pool-laps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16857","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Pool Laps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140814-190851-68931222.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140814-190851-68931222.jpg\" alt=\"20140814-190851-68931222.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn those hot, 95 degree, August days, it is exceptionally difficult for me to get outside, in running shoes, to do much of anything.  While I&#8217;m better about using my treadmill, the best and most pleasant thing I discovered this summer was to do laps in our little backyard pool!  We bought a 15 foot wide, 42 inch deep paddling pool for the kids this year.  On the days that were just too hot to exercise, I would go walk and run circles in the pool for 30 minutes.  It is a great, progressive workout.  At first I can only walk through the water, but as the current picks up, I&#8217;m forced to go faster and faster, if I want to keep up the thigh focus of the workout.  Not only did the running-in-the-pool method of cardio help with keeping cooler in the hot summer days during a workout, it also gave me a <em>fabulous<\/em> leg workout!  On top of that, the last time I did it, I kept track of my heart rate.  It stayed in the 140&#8217;s the whole time I was moving, and if that&#8217;s not a good cardio workout then I don&#8217;t know what is.<br \/>\nMy kids would say the best part of Mom&#8217;s pool workout is her stellar whirlpools!  They <em>love<\/em> to swim along behind me on their paddleboards, swirling quickly around the outside circle or twirling like a leaf in the center.  We all enjoy it!<br \/>\nThat said, whenever I hit the pool with the kids, we have an agreement:<br \/>\n1. Stay out of my way.  I only use the pool sometimes and appreciate the ability to get a solid workout in&#8230;  Plus, I will kick you out if you mess it up!  Mostly I don&#8217;t want to hurt you (or me) by tripping on you and landing on you!<br \/>\n2.  If you find yourself in front of me, go to the middle.  It&#8217;s the fastest way to support staying out of my way!<br \/>\n3.  No splashing.  I&#8217;m a major killjoy in the pool, I guess, but I am usually wearing my pedometer and it can&#8217;t get wet.<br \/>\n4.  After 30 minutes of letting me get my cardio in, I&#8217;m a really fun mama who will dive in, splash, continue the whirlpool, make up dance routines and generally have a good time.  I need it by then- I&#8217;m all hot and sweaty and need to cool down!  Ironic, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On those hot, 95 degree, August days, it is exceptionally difficult for me to get outside, in running shoes, to do much of anything. While I&#8217;m better about using my treadmill, the best and most pleasant thing I discovered this summer was to do laps in our little backyard pool! We bought a 15 foot &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16857\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-littlejohnt","4":"post-16857","6":"format-standard","7":"category-diary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16864,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16857\/revisions\/16864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}