{"id":395,"date":"2008-04-20T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/mt-whitney-climb-pt-4\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T14:59:48","slug":"mt-whitney-climb-pt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/mt-whitney-climb-pt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Whitney Climb, Pt. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/mt-whitney-climb-pt-1\/\" title=\"Mt. Whitney\" target=\"_blank\">Mt. Whitney hike<\/a> is one week closer, and I still don&#8217;t know what date we will be going. But I do know that it will be in the first week or so of June. So, last night I had the panic moment that I fully expected when I got about 5-6 weeks out from my first big hiking trip. As in, &#8220;Oh #?&amp;%, I need to get serious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like in the TLC show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/TLC%27s_I_Can_Make_You_Thin\/\" title=\"i can make you thin\" target=\"_blank\"><em>I Can Make You Thin<\/em><\/a>, I need to fight my inner eating voice that tells me that it&#8217;s okay to cheat today, &#8220;you can be better tomorrow.&#8221; Well, with the aforementioned &#8220;panic moment,&#8221; the time to be serious is now. I&#8217;ve decided that I will be hardcore with my diet six days of the week, allowing for one cheat day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also stepping up my actual &#8220;on the job training.&#8221; This weekend I&#8217;m taking a day trip to Sierra Buttes in Tahoe National Forest, California. The hike will be about 6-7 miles and about 8,000 feet above sea level. Not bad preparation but still only half the mileage of Mt. Whitney and 4,500 feet lower. I&#8217;ll let you know how sore I am, and even better, publish some photo evidence of my trip next week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with a couple of tips that for anyone doing long-term endurance exercise, like day hikes:<br \/>\n&#8211; An hour or two before your trip, drink about 20 ounces of water to make sure you&#8217;re hydrated.<br \/>\n&#8211; Stay hydrated during the exercise with a sports drink, or water with an energy bar.<br \/>\n&#8211; And when you&#8217;re done, guess what, more hydrating.<\/p>\n<p>See ya next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mt. Whitney hike is one week closer, and I still don&#8217;t know what date we will be going. But I do know that it will be in the first week or so of June. So, last night I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/mt-whitney-climb-pt-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,93],"tags":[4635,31,4892,7661],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-mens-health","tag-dr-colberts-i-can-do-this-diet","tag-health-news","tag-i-can-make-you-thin","tag-mt-whitney"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}