Posts Tagged 'weightlifting'

John Basedow told me I’m bad

johnbasedowfridge.jpg This is on my fridge right now. I bought two of the Fitness Made Simple DVDs from the infomercial on TV a few years ago, and this lovely 9 x ll glossy was a free gift with my order. I gave John a voice and he’s been taped to my fridge ever since.

John told me that I’m bad today. He says that I need to start exercising if I want this to go anywhere, preferably with his DVDs. And I agree. I actually have four John Basedow titles: The awesome hour, six pack abs, the fat burning workout and another one that I can’t remember. They’re pretty good. The exercises are real and aren’t gimmicky, and John Basedow seems like a very driven guy. I did notice that he’s a lot nicer to us fatties on the fat burning workout DVD than he is on the awesome hour – which is clearly geared toward men. And they shot the awesome hour it what appears to be John’s house, which is amazingly 80s. I’m talking pink carpeting, seashell details, glass dolphins – the works. And there’s John Basedow, working out on some sort of staircase landing with two ornamental dogs running around. Inspiring.

But the workouts are solid, and I imagine that if you did them religiously, or even frequently, you’d be successful.

Pullup Bar!

Today I bought a pullup bar for $26. I got a sweet deal on it from TJ Maxx because the box was open and it was missing a bolt. I was afraid that it wouldn’t fit in my doorway, but check it! It’s pretty awesome.
pullupfront.jpg

Now I just need to find a bolt that fits the screws so that I can use the wide grip.

The hard part: I can’t do any pullups.  Actually I can almost do one chin-up.  I learned from a P90X infomercial that I can just help myself do pullups with a chair, so I’m going to try that.  Today I did 10 assisted pullups.

Also I ate: 10:00 coffee with skim milk (30), 10:30 a bowl of plain puffins with skim milk (90+80 = 170), 12:00 some dried pears (50), 1:00 a small wheat pita (80) half of a can of tuna (85) a tsp of mayo (35) some shredded cheddar cheese (100) and a mustard blend (0), 3:00 a rice cake (35), 6:30 some pea soup (200) and two popovers (200)

Total = 985

and the machine tells me that I get to eat one more small thing tonight. Yes!



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