Scroll down to the sexy picture of Jillian Michaels to skip this personal story and possible damage to my image.

I decided to write to you about how/why I tortured myself this labor day weekend.

SATURDAY MORNING 8 AM:

I did the Saturday Backyard Boogie with Ben, Kim, and Rhona (thanks for coming out).

I died because I only ate an apple and wasn’t preparing on working out and I did not drink enough water (a bunch of Front End Excuses that I decided not to give into).

I followed that up with 2 hours of basketball on a sun scorched court at Horny Corner (don’t ask me why they call it that) with some street ballers that talked a lot of shit.

All together it was 3 hours of intense exercise.

I took a nap until about 6 pm, put my Oregon hat on and met my cousin at Legends Sport bar to watch college football.

Ate a giant Mighty Duck Burger, fries with ketchup (that found its way on to my shirt), drank 48 ounces of Guinness beer and stared at a hot woman in a turquoise dress during commercials.

We followed that up with a few pitchers of beer at Shannon’s bar down the street.

Guinness of course.

And then walked over to Panama Joes for some Bacardi Limon on the rocks and rhythmless bar band dancing.

I hardly ever do this…

And if I do, I never write about it!

Damn…

I was faded (urban lingo for drunk) so I left my car on 2nd street and stumbled home at 2 am because I did not belong behind a wheel.

Do I do this often?

No I dont.

I drink about once a month.

2 to 4 beers.

Its hard for me to justify throwing away all of my workouts for countless nights like the one above.

I try to stay health and fitness conscious on 9 out of 10 occasions and know that perfection can lead to insanity.

THE NEXT DAY:

Did a workout at 12 noon

This gave me enough time to sleep, drink a bunch of water, and pee out the alcohol

This was the workout:

Intervals: Ran fast for two blocks, walked for one block for 15 blocks.

Arrived at Cherry Park, met a gangster/hustler/someone that looked shady and asked him to do the following workout with me because I couldn’t workout alone:

15 pull ups
20 Split Jumps
10 Squat Jumps
10 Plyometric Push ups
10 Regular Push Ups
10 Dips
10 Rows on the Dip Bars (hard to describe what these are)
20 yards of Backward Spidermans
4 Rounds

Jogged 15 blocks on the Bluff grass in my socks because I had bloody blisters on my feet.


The following is what the top fitness experts in the industry have to say:

It has helped me keep drinking alcohol at a minimum as opposed to a MAXIMUM!


“Don’t drink alcohol.

It causes an increase in blood sugar and fat storage, and it will lead to a sugar crash as well as an increase in appetite for carbohydrates.

If you choose to have a drink, avoid sugary cocktails, beer, and wine.

Stick to clear alcohols like vodka or rum with calorie free mixers like diet or club soda, and you can always do what I do and drink it all straight.”

Jillian Michaels
Fitness Trainer and Life Coach from NBC’s The Biggest Loser


“When Swiss researchers gave eight healthy men enough alcohol to exceed 25% of their daily calorie requirement, they found that booze actually impaired men’s ability to burn fat by as much as 36%.

Booze also makes you store fat.

Your body sees alcohol as a poison and tries to get rid of it.

So your liver stops processing all other calories until it has dealt with the alcohol.

Anything else you eat while you drink will most likely get stored as fat.”

David Zinczenko
The Abs Diet


“You build this program around your lifestyle.

I’m not going to tell you to abstain from everything; if I do then you won’t comply to the program.

Alcohol may be part of your lifestyle, but I ask you to minimize it, maybe to one or two drinks per week.

If your going to have more than that then I encourage you to have drinks with some health benefit, such as red wines which have flavonoids that act as antioxidants.

Always drink one glass of water for every alcoholic drink.”

Mark Verstegen
Core Performance

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Peace!

Jaiya Figueras