{"id":2590,"date":"2023-08-28T01:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T01:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2023-08-28T01:04:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T01:04:37","slug":"how-i-turned-my-errands-into-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"How I Turned My Errands Into Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was physically destroyed the first time I rode my bike home from Costco lugging a trailer full of groceries. The 11-mile round trip left me with dead legs, a sore back and the sneaking suspicion I had made a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A month earlier, my 23-year-old minivan broke down for the last time. Rather than replace it, I decided a new \u201ccar-free\u201d reality would encourage a healthier lifestyle. My aching muscles questioned the viability of this plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three years later, I now know that giving up my car was the first step toward solving a lifelong struggle: maintaining consistent physical activity. What started as a necessity \u2014 I had no car, so I must bike \u2014 became a strategy: Errands are an opportunity for exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/26\/well\/move\/errands-exercise.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was physically destroyed the first time I rode my bike home from Costco lugging a trailer full of groceries.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}