Sure, CollegeHumor.com co-founder and porn name recipient Ricky Van Veen may be bathing in C-notes ever since Barry Diller’s checkbook showed up, but that doesn’t mean he’s idling away like some Web 2.0 millionaires (who we’re quite envious of). Rather, he’s brewing up genius workout ideas while coming out of his tryptophan coma.
Like many of you, I was always the type of person who would buy a gym membership but rarely go. Not that I abhorred spending time at the gym, but there was no compelling reason to bring me back day after day – I always found something more interesting to do.
That was until I coupled my daily workout routine with the recent boom in captivating serialized network television.In April I began a new diet I call The 24 Plan. By the beginning of July, with the help of the television show 24, I lost 30 lbs. You can too! If you follow this plan, I guarantee you will also lose weight or this blog entry is free.
All you need is a portable DVD player, a Netflix subscription, and a gym membership. Here’s what you do – it’s quite simple. Go to the gym with your portable DVD player and get on the elliptical machine. Put an episode of the television show into your DVD player and watch it while you’re on the machine. I used 24, but there are many other shows that work just as well (Lost, Grey’s, Prison Break, The Wire, etc). Before you know it the show will be over and you’ll have exercised for 44 whole minutes!
Just don’t watch any MTV shows on DVD, or you’ll be reduced to something like 32 minutes of workout time per hour-long episode. They’ve got mad commercial breaks. And those True Life episodes about anorexics and meth addicts will make you feel fatter than you were pre-workout.