DAMN YOU AGAIN HOLLYWOOD!!!

Seriously!?!?!? A house that is made of candy!!!! who decided to leave this on set?!?!

I didn't taste it, but i smelled the shit out of it!!!

TRY THIS - OF THE DAY!

Reflexes of a damn mongoose!

TEAM Workout!

I got back from my trip to Florida just in time for a great team workout Kenny had prepared for Tyler and I.  I suppose you could say that all of the workouts we do are team workouts, but lets not part hairs.  The idea is to complete the entire workout (each doing a 2 mile run up hill with 6 different exercises sporadically placed in between) as fast as possible, while communicating with your teammate along the way to distribute the work between you.  Certain movements are easy for me, like squats and inverted burpees, while others are Tyler's strength, such as pull ups and push ups.  We managed to keep it pretty even and worked really well together.  I guess that's a good sign for a newly married couple.  Go us!

So in case you have a workout partner and want to give it a shot, here it is...

Each person starts on a treadmill with the incline set at 3.0.  You each will need to run a total of 2 miles at the same time, keeping your paces the same.  If one gets tired and needs to pull back, the other person must do so too.  Here's the fun part- every 2 minutes you have to raise the incline by 1.0.  So, at 2 minutes into the run, you're raising it to 4.0, at 4 minutes you raise to 5.0, and so on.  Obviously the lower the incline, the easier it is, so the incentive is to cover as much ground at the beginning as you can.  Now, here's the even more fun part.  Every 2 minutes and 25 seconds, you push pause on the treadmill, hop off and both complete a team task.  The task is done one at a time, meaning when I'm working, Tyler is resting.  As I said, you can divide up the work however you want, you just have to make sure at least one person is moving at all times.  Both can't rest at once! As soon as you complete the task, get back on those treadmills and get towards that 2 mile mark!!

Here are the tasks to be completed, in order:

@ 2:17 - 50 inverted burpee 

@ 5:41 - 60 dumb bell front sq. 25lbs for the ladies & 35 for dudes.

@9:57 - 70 pullups 

@ 12:43 80 Kettle Bell swing 40 lbs for chicks & 50 lbs for dicks

@ 15:39 90 pushups 

@ trainers challenge pace  100 sit to stands

@ 2:17 - 50 inverted burpee 

@ 5:41 - 60 dumb bell front sq

@9:57 - 70 pullups 

@ 12:43 80 Kettle Bell swing

@ 15:39 90 pushups 

@ trainers challenge pace  100 sit to stands

ONE MONTH IN!!!!

HELL YES!!! ONE MONTH AND NO SUGAR!!! IM FEELING GRRRRREAT!!!!

D$ and I getting our sugar free flex on!

NEWS NEWS NEWS!

I was lucky enough to go to not 1 but 2 NBA games this weekend! Very fun time except this guy kept getting in my view and saying "Candy? Candy? Candy?" It was driving me bonkers! 2 days in a row!

I also did a yoga class this morning with Grace!


Baby Kate is amazing as always! She sends me regular texts and messages, and I think she even reads the blog! I can only assume since no one ever messages me I'm all alone out here on this thing. (Is that a desperate plea for someone to please send me some shred news, YES!)


Here's an excerpt from a message from her-


Half hour on the elliptical and 20 min of abs on Tuesday night. I've been missing Bikram since I'm on travel this week. Drove into Portland (45 min) to catch a class tonight. But BING-411 lead me astray with some shitty directions, so I didn't make it in time. Damn dumbphones! Back home and into the groove...
Thursday 1/2 hour on elliptical + some abs
Friday 1 1/2 hr Bikram yoga
Saturday 1 hr weightlifting class


Am I proud of BK?! YES! I couldn't imagine being more proud!


Mike Kerner did a 3 mile walk/run! That's the first one for him in a few weeks! 

Lannie is sick... Stay strong dude!

BEFORE

I read that posting before pictures and stats in a public place drastically changes your success rate! I know that personally I have felt slightly unmotivated and I'm sick of blaming it on stuff like weather or diet. My diet is really good and I live in Southern California. AKA I need to stop bitching! Eating a well balanced diet is a large part of overall health but daily exercise is just as important! I figure this will motivate me more to see some serious results! So here it is everyone... BEFORE!

Ben Roethlisberger?

12.9% Body Fat

174 pounds

Goal- to be under 8% body fat!

The Charlie Sheen of Chocolate goes to Europe

Holla shuga free suckas! I'm loving it, I really am. I thought I'd write because it's been a minute.

I actually got really lucky for the kickoff, which tends to be the hardest part of any new habit for me & most humans, because I had that gnar flu (see emo pic). I don't tend to crave sweets when I'm sick. Haaaaay.

The journey has been surprisingly smooth! & let me tell you-- I wasn't a light sugar consumer in the past. I share my story today.

I was the Charlie Sheen of desserts. My fav high was chocolate, and after that, anything creamy. Sure I'd occasionally have something ghets like a snickers, but my palate was for the good stuff. The 3 for 10$ "artisan squares" yuppy cookies from Whole Paycheck. Godiva. At rock bottom I was selling to support my habbit, downtown Santa Cruz. Yup, I was a waitress at a restaurant called Chocolate. We served desserts called the Orgy (when my tables would ask me to join I'd say "Thanks, but I just like to watch."winky face. That reeled in the tips! if there were just 2 people, I'd recommend a glass of Boutille Calle-- pronounced Booty Call, so they could get the party started), Adult Chocolate Misbehavior... my favorite was a fresh baked big warm chocolate cupcake, heated & filled with hot, fresh made Ganache, covered in that redonkulous home-made whip, dusted in fine cacao... I'd stock the home-made truffles in the morning "Oh no, this one's shell is cracked, can't serve that... must stuff in mouth..."

I'm having flashbacks...

My pitt boss (the restaurant owner), David, was a real Kingpin. Learned from the top-dogs in the game, a bonafide, certified Chocolatier educated in France. He was getting pounds of the good stuff shipped in daily-- hazelnut chocolate from Belgium so creamy it melted upon contact with human hands- you had to wear gloves to handle it, the darkest from Venezuela, fine powder cocoa from Italy. He was the Tony Ventana of sweets, and he was grooming me to be a full on Shug Thug. And I was all in. I was up at 8 a.m. weighing out lil sacks of chocolate all morning, melting down 60 gram bags of the stuff into hot chocolates that had lady names-- white chocolate was Bianca, Italian Sofia, Mexican Frida, Belgian Belga. Served with a lady finger ever so carefully glued to your cup with that bomb whip. These hot ladies were working the street hard-- Pacific Avenue, downtown Santa Cruz, to be exact-- and making our customers' taste buds dance & sing, kept em coming back for more. & all the while I was skimming of the top.

Vanessa knows the scene, she popped in many a time for a tasty treat, a buzz. You never met a more sparkly enabler. She could partoke with the best of us. I was hooking up friends, supplying for parties...

It was the blurst of times.

So if anyone has ever stood before you as a sugar lover, it is I. Since those crazy college days waitressing, I've had more mellow times, for sure. Kept it light. Cleansed etc, haha. But I always kept a lil choco stash somewhere, & as Ash & Ty know from witnessing me devour the INSANE football cookie sandwiches Ashley made for the Superbowl, or the veritable buffet of sugary delights o Thanksgiving, if the stuff was in front of me, I macked it.

This 100 day journey's transition, though (I can hear my nana-- "She says mighty smugly for day 19) has been, like I said, surprisingly smooth.

But then again, I'm a competitor. My drive to rise to the challenge, bring my team with, revel in the failure of the opponents, probably outweighs even my love of the sweets.

Because nothing, my friend, and this is coming from a big dawg Sug Thug, IS SWEETER THAN THE TASTE OF VICTORY.

I want to take it up a notch. Cuz that's how I roll. I'm going to Europe-- the motherland of the creamy, choc dessert that once eclipsed my world. And I am saying No, Si'l vous plait. ahahahahah!

Let's do this!!!

TIP/PIC OF THE DAY!

STOP BEING A FAT ASS AND TAKE THE STAIRS!!

Im really claustrophobic and I get scared in elevators, motivation comes in all forms!

VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE IS BACK!

Valentines Day Massacre is back... and it  STILL SUCKS!!! I'm not sure why but this work out really gets me in my head. I think its the lack of mental gaming you can do when you start since the times are all odd and strange. Ash and I both beat our old scores (distance ran, and reps) but in all honesty, I think I only did because I knew my old ones and could benchmark myself. Either way, I'm excited to do this when I'm not on my meriad. 

WARM UP- DS (I don't know why its called that)

Do between 2-5 rounds of the following (We did 2 since its just a warm up, but do 5 if you want a good work out!)

10 Burpees! Ash rocks these!

20 Sumo squats (Wide legs & fingers to the ground!)

30 Crunches!

 100 Ball Taps (Alternating legs)

Now its time for...VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE!

Remember.. Its only 20 minutes long, and the times are broken up into confusing segments to keep you from gaming it. The goal is to get as many reps and as much distance as possible. so keep count!

START THE CLOCK - YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES

1. Run on treadmill that's at 3% incline for 5:23 (hit pause, don't hit stop no matter what, so your distance is still there and you can go back to it)

2. Go immediately (NO REST) to do pull ups till the clock is at 9 minutes Meaning, do as many as possible for 3 minutes and 37 seconds . Guys do dead-hang pull-ups (no kicking your legs, just 100% arms) Girls, do jumping pull-ups or use a band. Ash does real pull-ups because she's a bad ass so just adjust if you have to.

3. Back to the treadmill (NO REST, THE CLOCK IS RUNNING), press unpause. Raise the incline to 6% and run as far as you can till the clock reads 12:47. meaning run for 3 minutes and 47 seconds. press pause not stop.

4. Straight into Weighted Squats, this will suck. Guys use two 25lb weights, girls use 15lbs. (remember everyone is unique so adjust accordingly) Do as many as possible till the 16 minute mark, or for 3 minutes and 13 seconds.

That's our bud Chris Mello giving Ash a good yelling at! Check his blog out HERE 

5. Back to the treadmill, take it down to flat, no incline! you have 4 minutes to cover as much distance as possible! This is a great place to really put yourself into a hole, go till you are almost at failure! Remember that you don't know what you can do till your body fails! 100% EFFORT!!

CONGRATS!!!! YOU FINISHED!!! Now lay on the floor and writhe!

Seriously guys, you should try this one! It is a BEAST! I'm pretty terrible at it but Ash kills it!

Good luck!

FLIGHT SCHOOL!!!

I am trying to put more videos up than pictures lately because its just more fun!

This work out I did with Kenny was surprisingly really tough for me, the lateral jump lunges are torture! I don't really do them right, my form sucks and yeah I'm bitching because I'm on my meriad! (see the news section if you don't get this) However I decided to suck it up and show you the video of the work out.

FLIGHT SCHOOL!!!

This one was built to help us with the Tough Mudder training!

Do the following 5 times! 3 minutes rest in between each set! (And do better form than I do!)

1. SPRINT 200 yards!!!!
2. Ten Lateral Jump Lunges (In the video I am pretty much cheating, its supposed to be a more explosive movement from the bottom of the lunge straight into the other side... It sucks because after a sprint your legs DO NOT want to work like this!)
3. Five sprint jump things (just watch the video)

NEWS NEWS NEWS!

Here it is my friends.. the 100SFD NEWS!

Mike Kerner has been having knee issues and hopped into a 1 hour spinning class yesterday, looks like this is going to be his new jam-jam since running just isn't doing him any good!

Schwartz is doing weights like a champ. He knocked out bench, shoulder press, and triceps. All with high reps... this dude is pretty much poised for shred!

Lannie did TRX - Total body resistance exercise which is just your weight and bands! It seems fairly simple and not nearly as pansy as "Ballet Burn"... Yeah Beezus...  I'M CALLING YOU OUT!!!

Roy says that hes "Just not into the 100 days like he was last year."... I want to remind everyone that this is a MARATHON! Its 100% OK to not be into this ALL the time, just remain sugar free and push over those humps, this is where its easy to backslide and staying strong will pay off in the long run!... 2 weeks is a long time for a competition, this is more than 3 months! Hang in there Roy! We are all there for you!

I think I know what Roy is going through, he is having his MERIAD! (That's my slang for man-period) I only know this because I am also having my meriod right now!  I have had a really strange week, Vanessa and I were talking about it last night and we agree something is just in the air. I must be on my meriod because Ive been acting like a fucking baby everywhere I go and saying things like the following...

"I'M SO DEPRESSED, I JUST NEED TO CRY RIGHT NOW"

"I HATE MY BODY IN THIS SHIRT"

"I COULD NEVER TRY ON JEANS RIGHT NOW, I FEEL SOOO BLOATED"

I'm not kidding... Seriously people... Ash even has an alter ego name for me... Tyra... So if you ever see me acting a fool, call me out on it.... But call me Tyra when you do!

ADAM AND CAROLINE!

NEW COMPETITORS!? THATS RIGHT! I had a pleasant surprise email yesterday from my good friends up in Canada, Adam and Caroline! I had not idea but they are doing the 100SFD's too! The email said something like "T-Man you never mention us on the blog" so I emailed them back "You never mentioned that you were doing the competition".. Then I went through all my old emails and I was wrong.. they told me.. I forgot.. Not too many of my dude friend get the whole "Man Period" thing but Adam does! He gets his all the time! We usually go shopping together to ease the stresses of the meriod... Happy to have you two!

Last night was Molly's birthday! We had an AMAZING time! Thanks Mol!

Baby Kate is just handling shit up north! Here is a snippet from an email she sent - "AND, another Bikram class tonight - I felt exhausted, but finally making some really great improvements.  I'm gonna miss Bikram when I'm on travel for three weeks!  Looking for a good gym to work out in while I'm gone."

Park Work Out!

Ash and I went for a drive today and found the most amazing FREE outside gym right around us in Santa Monica! Where the heck has it been hiding all this time?! We had to stop and get a sweat on! The work out was pretty short, but intense!

I set a personal challenge to complete the whole course in under a minute!

After that I challenged other people to beat my best time... And I ALWAYS win in a challenge!!!!!!
(That's not actually true)

Shred Zone, here we come!

NEW DIGS MARCH OPENS WITH A BANG!

Molly and I thought we would bring in "NEW DIGS MARCH" with a BANG! Molly had never been to Power Yoga so we decided to visit Grace's class yesterday! Grace is AMAZING, by far one of my most favorite teachers in Santa Monica, she is so positive and she does a fantastic mixture of getting all weird and spiritual but mixed with sport (I know that's hard to comprehend but try a class and you will get it!)

Also, today is MOLLYS BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy Bday Molly from your 100SFD crew!

EFF THE FLU!!

The Flu is a real bitch.  Last year The Flu tried to get all up in my shit and I had to get in a fist fight with it so the Flu knew its place.

This year is going to be different! If The Flu even gets mouthy, things are going to get real nasty at my house. I'm basically going to start doing enemas of Echinacea and chugging orange juice! YOU GOT NOTHIN ON ME DUDE!

Ash and I have been feeling under the weather, so Kenny has taken it easy on the shredding.  Yesterday was basically a super stretch day. We did foam rollers and ball rolling all over and around the hips, calves, quads, traps, and glutes. Then I went home and drank water till my bladder almost exploded.. not kidding!

So today we had an interesting warm up, and if a picture is worth 1000 words then a video is worth like.. a whole lot more! Do the following 5 times with a 6 pound ball, without dropping the ball! If you drop the ball it doesn't count! Or you can count it, and consider yourself a slacker.

DO NOT confuse this warm up for "BALL SWEAT"... We are warming up! Not doing "BALL SWEAT"!

Next its on to the treadmill!


Start at a 12% incline and do 10 rounds of the following -

30 second sprint at a speed of 8.5
60 seconds rest

This kind of sucks at such a high incline. I could have gone quite a bit faster, but remember.. I'm scheduled to beat the shit out of The Flu this week.

Do the following just once - Unless you feel like not listening to me and doing whatever you want.

Rest 3 minutes

Run 800 Meters at a speed of 10.5, no incline!

This was pretty tough, my shoes came untied at the beginning and I decided to push through and not be such a baby about shoe laces.  I felt great and set a PR!

"Dude, you are gonna totally beat the shit out of The Flu when you seem him!"

Kenny gave Ash a different workout, since she is feeling a little more sick than me and also rehab-ing a shoulder issue from a few weeks ago.

She did 3 rounds of the following:  1/2 mile run on the treadmill followed by a 500 meter row. After three rounds of this, she was actually feeling better.  Kenny's theory was right, sometimes you just need to get your blood pumping in order to flush out some of the junk in your system.  

Molly and Tyler's BIG DAY OUT!

Ashley and I have been doing something the past few months, we give months a theme, and then act accordingly!

For example, we had "Sports January", where we went to as many sporting activities as possible.  "Live Performance February", we got in a ton of live music and theatre. And now we are gearing up for "New Digs March"! We plan on checking out new places for everything including restaurants, hikes, and SHREDDING!!!

Well Ashley was working yesterday, so Molly and I decided to get a jump on "New Digs March" and check out a new shred spot!

FYI, Molly is pretty much going crazy on the shred tip! She is shredding all over town! I saw her in Whole Foods last night holding 2 milk jugs doing bicep curls!

We hit up YAS in Venice for a one hour class split up into 30 minutes of spinning and 30 minutes of yoga. All in all i think the spot was pretty cool! The class was a little bit more mellow than I'm used to, with only 30 minutes of spinning and 30 of yoga its tough to get too deep into either one. I was feeling under the weather so it actually was nice to just get a light sweat going and not go 100% into a work out, but I'm not sure $17 is worth it for the experience. ($14 with a student ID)

"New Digs March" should bring plenty of fun new spots to check out in LA!

This is Molly's "How I got Roy" pose! It starts off like this and ends like a Venus Fly Trap!

NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!

PEOPLE ARE SHREDDING!!!!!

So, my video about Kobe Bryant and Bikram Yoga got pulled down... So I just renamed it and put it on youtube.. Lets see if "The Man" tears it down sort of like cupcakes are trying to tear me down in my dreams at night! Seriously... nightmares.. about confections?!

Molly did what she calls the "Molly Loop" which is 2.5 miles with situps and free weights! she wasn't full yet so for dessert she took a yoga class! WOW!

Schwartz ran 7 miles yesterday and is hitting the gym tonight! There is no stopping that guy!

Lannie went for a walk and passed a Cinnabon, and after licking the window for 30 minutes moved on and  remained sugar free! We admire your dedication LanMan!

Mike Kerner upped the number of mileage he usually does, he has been steady with 2 miles but went 2.5 today! Hey Captain Cardio, watch your ass cause Kerner is gunning for you!

Mike's wonderful mom Wendy bought a TON of girl scout cookies!!!!! She put them in the freezer for when we get there in July for her birthday!!!!! There is a reason we call her Mama Kerner! 

I went with Girls Night to the gym today, I am going to help her post her first blog tonight hopefully! SHE KILLED IT THIS MORNING!!! It was inspiring to watch!

Baby Kate is up north canning food (then not sharing it) and pushing through Bikram Yoga classes... Kobe is proud I'm sure of it. Lets see if he mentions her in his post-game questioning tonight

Jessica D is hiking hiking hiking!!!! 3.8 miles yesterday!!

Winters texted me that she has been listening to Ke$ha to work out, I'm disappointed in her and am taking a poll if we are going to have to throw her out of the 100SFD's!

KOOL AID HAS BOOBS!!! well, not yet but his pec's are getting shredded! Yesterday he did a chest workout and a 2 mile run!

DThomp came up with a new sugar free post workout shake, 6oz milk, 2 frozen strawberries, and whey protein has no sugar and is vanilla flavored. He is turning down cookies (see right) literally EVERY DAY at work... his strength is limitless! 

Ash and I are resting today, yesterday got ugly while we were going into "LABOR PAINS" 

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LABOR SURE AS SHIT AIN'T A TRIP TO THE ZOO!

I call this one LABOR PAINS because that's pretty much what I sounded like while I was doing it.. I was RUINED from playing hockey yesterday, however Kenny gave not one shit and proceeded to beat the tears out of me. I honestly was making sounds that sounded like a wounded banshee who was left to die alone in the swamp. It sucked... so without further adieu, I give you.. LABOR PAINS!!!!!!

Water Breakage AKA Warm Up - Shoulder press 3 sets of 5 repetitions (I used 100 lbs). At this point you shouldn't be making much noise at all.

START THE CLOCK!

Dilated Cervix AKA The Beginning - Do 75 "Hand Release" Pushups. Basically do a push up but only rest your chest on the ground while you quickly release your hands. Don't let your legs or hips touch. Every time you "break" from the pushups do 7 reverse burpees! That's basically your rest from pushups.

hands are released but hips and legs are not touching the ground

REVERSE BURPEE

REST 3 MINUTES (Not a second longer!) BUT KEEP CLOCK GOING!

AKA Drive to the Hospital cause shit is about to get REAL!

LABOR!!!!

Do 4 rounds of the following after 3 minutes rest from the pushups!

1. Sprint on a treadmill for 1/4 mile! AKA Contractions!

2. Snatch Squats - AKA Breaching of the head! 20 snatches total, 10 on each arm. This is the worst part... prepare to make some guttural animal noises! Its hard to explain a snatch squat so if you can, youtube it or something. I added pictures to help! I used a 20 pound weight.

3. Standing sit-up AKA BIRTH! Do 30 of these, this is easy compared to the pain of a perfectly executed snatch squat.

NOW DO THE WHOLE THING 3 MORE TIMES!!!!! (4 ROUNDS TOTAL)

After you are done you should feel like you gave birth... Maybe gave birth to twins.. And not that pansy drugged up birth either, real hard old school birth where you earn your kids. When there was like a 50% chance of death!

Now, eat protein and sleep... sleep like a swaddled newborn;)