{"id":305,"date":"2011-02-12T23:36:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-02-12T23:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T10:52:23","slug":"climb-a-mountain-in-your-weight-vest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/climb-a-mountain-in-your-weight-vest.php","title":{"rendered":"Climb a mountain in your weight vest !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/climb-a-mountain-in-your-weight-vest.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Reckon you could climb a mountain in a weight vest. It sounds impossible &#8211; right?<\/p>\n<p>A mountain is big. This is New Zealand&#8217;s biggest mountain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/images\/450px-Aoraki_Mount_Cook.JPG\" alt=\"mt cook\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt Cook is 12,316 ft. Its very beautiful but I&#8217;m damned if I want to climb it in a weight vest. I found some concrete steps in a park about a minutes walk from my place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/images\/800px-Myers_Park_Palm-Lined_Alley.jpg\" alt=\"meyers park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its 60 or so steps to this level&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/images\/auckland-4.jpg\" alt=\"meyers park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then another 50 plus into the shopping mall above&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/images\/auckland-5.jpg\" alt=\"meyers park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over 110 steps so that must be at least 40 feet. <\/p>\n<p>12,316 ft divided by 40 = 307<\/p>\n<p>If I can climb these steps 307 times in my weight vest I have climbed the equivalent of a mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Today I did it six times and nearly blew my ass &#8211; I have a 40 lb vest and will try adding one more climb each day I do it. It is one &#8220;hell&#8221; of a cardio workout and not too bad for the thighs either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Reckon you could climb a mountain in a weight vest. It sounds impossible &#8211; right? A mountain is big. This is New Zealand&#8217;s biggest mountain&#8230; Mt Cook is 12,316 ft. Its very beautiful but I&#8217;m damned if I want to climb it in a weight vest. I found some concrete steps in a park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406,373],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-stair-climb","tag-weight-vest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}