spolikeluzhate:

Last night on The Chris Gethard Show cast and crew took an honest look at themselves and stepped on the scales. At the end of the year, we will all step on the scales again and the person with the largest percentage of mass lost wins an envelope filled with an okay amount of cash. 

Weight has always been my biggest battle in life. One thing that has made it easier is that I love sports and I am a natural athlete, so I have been active most of my life, I just eat like a fucking idiot.

Since March I have been seeing a personal trainer 2-3 times a week. In these sessions I have focused on strength training. When I started out I was curling 8lb weights and now I am up to 25lb. I can also squat a village and bench press your mom. PRETTY FUCKING DOPE.  It is hard work, and it fucking hurts and there have been moments when I have wanted to cry, but I am stronger than I have ever been and that feels good.  But I also weigh more than I have in a while. My fattest was the end of college when I tipped the scales over 200. My thinnest was 5 years ago when I ran a marathon. Right now I am somewhere in the middle, and I want to get away from it, not because I hate my body, but the extra weight isn’t healthy for my joints etc. I want to be healthy human being, not a sex symbol.

The past month I have focused on my food and upped my cardio and I have been losing again, but now with the competition, I am ramping up my focus in all areas.

THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN.

In addition to my 5-6 visits to the gym every week, I am giving the CG Show Audience, as well as my tumblr/twitter/facebook followers a chance challenge me physically every day.

For the week of 10/20-10/26 you can email me ONCE A DAY at spofit2011@gmail.com and tell me to do a minute of burpees, crunches or a plank.

So if you email me today with the subject line Burpees - I have to do as many burpees in a minute as I can, and I will email you back the number I did.  Same goes for crunches.  With the plank, I will hold myself in plank position for a minute or longer. Right now a minute is my breaking point, I am shaking and sweating and cursing your unborn children, this is the worst of the bunch. Again I’ll reply with the time.

In addition to emailing, if you are part of the UCB community and you see me at the Training Center or Theatre, you can come up to me and tell me in person to do a minute of burpees, crunches or a plank.  As long as it won’t make me late for teaching a class or doing a show etc, I’ll do it on the spot. If I can’t do it on the spot, I will add it to my list and do it during a break or directly after the show.  If you already emailed me though, you can’t request in person, one request per person, per day. I want to be fit, not dead.

IN SUMMARY, YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE ME CRY!

EMAIL SPOFIT2011@GMAIL.COM with Burpees, Crunches or Plank.

And now I am off to the gym…..

I have a bit of a cold and haven’t been to the gym in a few days. I think I feel strong enough to go, but I don’t want to risk overwhelming myself. Gonna give it a few more days then hopefully get back to it.

Been eating a lot of soup in the meantime. That’s good, right?

I think I’m in enough of a gym-going groove at the moment where I’m not too sore after workouts. Also, I’ll have some nights free in the next few weeks, which means I don’t need to wake up super early to go to the gym.

I did squats and lower body exercises on Monday after not having done them for more than two weeks.  I tried something different and stretch both during and after the workout and, guess what?  I’m less sore today than normal!

I jammed my finger putting a 25-pound dumbbell back on the rack.  It didn’t feel too bad the first few hours, but now it looks like it’s starting to swell and bruise.

Exciting, huh?

Hurricane Irene prevented the final Funnyball of the season from happening. It ended up being a good thing for me because I feel like I tweaked my elbow during the middle of the season. (And it’s surprisingly not connected to masturbating!)

A few weeks in, I’d feel a slight twinge on my elbow whenever I threw. It wasn’t a sharp, stinging pain. It was more of a slow burning dullness. (No chafing, though!)

I think I got it from improperly throwing side-arm while playing the infield; I started throwing over-hand instead and that helped reduce the pain significantly.  It would still be there though and it was really annoying. (I guess you could say that different grips and arm movements helped me out here. Still not caused masturbating!)

Anyway, I still feel it a bit when I work out, so I’m going to go easy on it for a while. (I’ll also go easy on my dick.)

Weighed in at 155.6 lbs this morning.

The good: I seem to be maintaining my weight.  For a long time, I would stay at 150 no matter what I ate.  So it’s encouraging to see progress.

The bad: I got up to 156 last September, too, but never above that.  I got sick in the winter, went back down to 145 lbs and felt weak until I got back to the gym.

The ugly: My face :(