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Biggest C&R Loser 2013

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Welcome to the 4th week of Biggest C&R Loser 2013! This year we’ll be keeping all of the results and placings secret until the end of the contest. We’ll also be pooling our cash to award the 2013 winner the largest prize we’ve ever awarded … a whopping $40!  This week’s theme is “EXERCISE” – How have our contestants changed their exercise habits?  What are they doing to stay in shape? Are any of them even trying? Here’s what they had to say:


Michelle M.

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Well, so far I haven’t been exercising at all. I have been thinking about getting Zumba. Someone was selling it fairly cheap on Craigslist, but it was snapped up before I could buy it. I’m still on the look-out for it. In the meantime I’ve been thinking about walking around the neighborhood lake…


Mikey

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Have I exercised any differently since this started? Well I’m writing these blurbs each week…so that is different. Other than that I have not really changed what I’m doing exercise wise. I know this has to change, but if there is something I hate more than exercise I haven’t found it.


Mr. Sombrero

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I haven’t had much success with athletic activities recently. But in two weeks fitness classes start at work again. So I’m looking forward to squeeze in some calisthenics and yoga time. In the meantime, I’ll exercise by eye rolling every time Amanda Bynes does something stupid.

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Nathan

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I haven’t really been exercising at all. It’s ridiculously cold outside (below -40 tonight!) and I’ve mainly been changing my eating habits.


Polt

This week’s I’m to talk about my exercise…or lack thereof. I’m actually trying to get back to walking every 2-3 days instead of every 4-5 days like it has been. But really with as cold as it’s been, I don’t see myself walking much at all until it warms up. This will be me during the cold snap:

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Now, if only I had a purple sofa to eat my popcorn on.


Tam

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Yeah. That pic pretty much sums it up. Today I will blame it on the frigid -40 temps, but that doesn’t explain last week when it was above freezing. Bah. It was a crappy week for me contest-wise. So let’s just move on people, nothing to see here. *beached whale*


TwoPi

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Exercise? It is on my to-do list. I’m currently working on physical therapy, then will start on the exercise bike, and once I’ve built up some stamina the plan is to hit the Y. But I haven’t been a total slug, I’ve been going to the YMCA regularly! Mostly just to watch my kid’s swim class, though.


Adam

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It’s effing cold outside and I haven’t exercised at all. Scratch that … I’ve been chewing a lot. Nom nom nom!


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Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser 3: Week 4

Our third week is complete! Today our contestants celebrate three weeks into the cockiest and rudest weight loss competition evahhhh! It’s Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser 3!

Exercise is an important part of every weight-loss regimen. This week, the contestants were invited to tell us how they’ve exercised to help attain their weight-loss goals. Here’s what they said:


Mikey
The only exercise I have been able to get in the past two weeks has been walking to/from work, walking the dog, playing with the dog, and COUGHING. However, since my diet changes have resulted in my weight loss leveling off and since I am finally able to move around without hacking up a corner of my lungs, I am instituting an exercise regimen. I will be doing 30-45 min of cardio every other day for the near future. May my ass disappear.


Tam
The picture says it all. I really have not focused at all on exercise. I have really only been seriously participating in this challenge for about 10 days because of my trip, so right now I’m just paying attention to what I eat and how much of it. I’ve been faithfully logging my in-take on Spark People and I think for right now I need to focus on that until it becomes more second nature. If I starting thinking I must do this, and this, and this, I’m likely to do none of it. So that’s my rationale for sitting my ass on the couch and doing nothing.


Ryan
The majority of my exercise is walking. Commuting to work gives me a baseline of twelve miles each week. I’ve also started using a walk tracking app on my phone. I love it because I can take a spontaneous path and not have to worry about remembering every detour when I map the route when I get home. I’ve also been doing some calisthenics, but I haven’t been disciplined about it. Usually, it amounts to doing some pushups while my oatmeal is cooking if I don’t have any dishes to wash.


Adam
I’ve been a lazy piece of shit for the past week. I’m paying for a gym membership … I really need to go to the gym. Ugh. But I’m just so damn lazy. bloooooooooooooooooob. Maybe my arm muscles will get bigger if I buy heavier forks. And spoons.


Polt
This week we’re supposed to talk about exercise. I don’t feel the need to change my exercise regime, as I was getting quite a bit of exercise before we started. I mean, several times in an evening, I had to drag my fat ass off the couch, ya know, to get something to eat, or to pee or whatever. And at least once a day, I have to roll my fat ass outta bed…NOT an easy thing to do, I assure you. So as long as I keep working out like that, I should do really well.


TwoPi
Slow and steady wins the race! Unless you’re pedaling on a stationary bike, that is. Or not, as I’ve been lately. I couldn’t find the “Add dust and cobwebs” filter in Photoshop… but the actual stationary bike and elliptical machine sitting in my attic are gathering more dust than sweat these days. I’ve been struggling with hip and back trouble for months, and at the moment my most strenuous activity is walking (when I’m able) and physical therapy (when I’m good and I remember). But I know I’ve got the equipment waiting there to be dusted off, and surely some day…


Michelle M.
I haven’t exercised at all. I’VE BEEN SICK! I did get my hula hoop, Thighmaster, in-line skates and dumbbells out of the garage for this photo, so that should count for something. Other exercise I haven’t been doing: walking around the lake, riding my bike and Zumba (which I intend to buy/do one day, so that should also count for something).


Mr. Sombrero
Mr. Sombrero has been feeling a bit under the weather past few days and he had to skip a few classes. But on a good week his exercise regimen consist of yoga, calisthenics, and ton, like 7 miles a day, of walking. And somehow I still don’t see the results fast enough. Damn you quesadillas!!!


And now the week’s results:

Stay tuned each Thursday for the stunning weight-loss success stories of our eight contestants. Who will win this year’s competition? Find out on May 31st … just in time for bikini season!

It’s Party Time!

Last Saturday, a few members of the Puntabugang C&R Army converged upon New York City for a festive evening of friends, vegan (and non-vegan) treats, booze, caffeine-free diet soda, pop music and great conversation.  A wonderful time was had by all, which you can see exhibited in the following 60 out-of-focus, grainy, and often odd photos (some of which were masterfully taken by “The Kid”).  Enjoy!

In attendance:
Chris D., FDot, “The Kid”, Kris, Mikey, Mr. Sombrero, Tam, Jeopardy! champion Ty, & Adam

Not in attendance:
Polt (says I have a sultry and sexy voice), Craig (was curled up in his bed crying over his urinary tract infection), Jere (he was too busy watching American Horror Story), and everyone else.

Just Breathe

Have you noticed that life is really darn-tootin’ stressful? I have. Between the work we do for the money we need to pay the bills we wish we didn’t have to begin with but provide us the comforts we need, life is an endless morass of stress-inducing muck. Unless we all win the next big jackpot (and I’m seriously thinking we will), we will have to deal with most of this stress for the rest of our lives. So what can we do to get through it all. The answer is just breathe.

No, don’t hyperventilate. That will not help. Breathing is all we have sometimes when we come face-to-face with our boss and we are telling him “I told you that three times and you didn’t listen to me, so don’t blame me.” In my head, I’m not being so civil. In fact, my brain conjures up the image of myself morphing into a big ferocious mountain lion that pounces across the table and eviscerates the boss. On the outside my face might be twitching a little bit, but my breathe is slow and metered. If it weren’t, I would have quit on the spot about 20 times already.

It is shocking to me how frequently I forget to breathe or I lose control of my breathe altogether. I would concentrate so much on something else I was doing, that I literally would neglect to breathe. Running up a flight of stares, doing long division, and staring down my prey (aka the aforementioned idiot), are all occasions when I have forgotten to breathe. It sucks. It made me more anxious and much more likely to snap at Adam when he asked me something simple.

Before you think I have gone all meditatey-eastern religiony on you, I must admit that there are some people who have taken breathing a bit too far. Just the other day, I stumbled upon a man who claimed to have hated his a**hole for thirty years until he learned how to breathe anally. The only kind of gas that I know of that comes near my anus is not one that anyone would breathe or want to breathe. Of course you do’t believe me, but you should see for yourself.

This is the same creepy dude who was trying to get the gay mens to gather and do some sort of orgasmic yoga. It was not yoga and it was not orgasm inducing. It was just plain goofy. But does creepy dude have a point about learning to love his bum by giving it some fresh air? Who knows…I just think that he needs to do some market research and come up with a better name. Maybe invent a Sanskrit word or just steal something from an ancient scroll.

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