Day 954. Ive done enough, tried, experimented, flirted, lusted after, jumped into bed with, high fived, tried on for size, ran screaming from, dallied, diddled, fumbled, fondled, tried my hand at, dabbled, mastered, half-assed and owned so many parts of this whole fitness dealio that I think I have finally got enough under my belt to allow myself to do something that I’ve never done.
Become Wholly Obsessed.
for 30 days.
30 days is nothing to me in this. Its a short spurt of insanity and I want it. Im going to do everything for 30 days. 
I get to get obsessed!!!! I say often that my mind when it hooks on to something is like the sun through a magnifying glass. It burns a hole in front of me. Im not exaggerating.
But I feel like Im finally at a place and time where I could handle thirty days of beast mode.
I know balance and rest. I know super intense and I know self-discipline but this will challenge all of these things, because this is going to be ‘my good bye weight-loss program out with a glorious bang’.
I have never done a challenge where I didnt have certain things I was focusing on.
I have never said to myself, let me see what I can accomplish in thirty days when my brain, heart and body are all onboard and foaming at the mouth.
I have never tried my absolute hardest just to see how much I can do. Just to see.
TIme to effing fix that. CANNONBALL! 
Cardio has been on the backburner for me for several months now, really only running for fun or for a warm-up.
But now Im going to do regular cardio again, 3 days each week including a long run on the weekends. Im also going to improve both my mile time AND my 5 mile time.
On top of my schedule below, there will be approximately 10 days of swimming around in the ocean mermaid style, but i’d be doing that anyway - so Im not counting as regularly scheduled cardio
Schedule: 
Week 1 - June 1-7 Friday to Thursday
6/2 Saturday - Downtown Brooklyn to Grand Central Station via Brooklyn Bridge Run (round trip) - 10 mi
6/4 Tuesday - Morning Run - Park Slope 5 miles
6/6 at home body weight circuit training from NerdFitness - at the Lake Week 2 - June 8 - 14
6/8 Friday - Morning Run - Coney Island 5 miles
6/10 Sunday - Mid-Day Run Verrazano Bridge and Shoreline - 13 miles
6/12 Tuesday - at home body weight circuit training from NerdFitness - on my roof
6/14 Thursday - Morning Run - Park Slope 5 miles Week 3 - June 15 - 21
6/16 Saturday - 6.2 Miles Leisure run on circuit of Central Park
6/18 Monday - at home body weight circuit training from NerdFitness - on the Luna Park dock
6/20 Wednesday - Planet Fitness Express Circuit Training Floor - 4 rounds - 90 minutes Week 4 June 22 - 28
6/22 Friday - Coney Island 5 miles
6/24 Sunday - Mid-Day Run Shore Line to Coney Island - 15 miles
6/26 Tuesday - Boxing / Calisthenics 60 minutes
6/28 Thursday - at home body weight circuit training from NerdFitness - on the 9/11 pier Finale Wrap-Up June 29/30
6/30 Saturday - Long distance victory Run - new route of choice 
Strength Training, Heavy Lifting and Deadlifting - my newest addition to my fitness world and one Im having a very strong love affair with.
I want to up my weights and maintain my reps. I want to do it 2-3 times per week to make sure Im getting maximum results.
Schedule: 
Week 1 - June 1 -7
6/1 Friday - 45 minute deadlifting session
6/5 Wednesday - 45 minute heavy lifting session - concentrating mostly on back/arms/shoulders Week 2 - June 8 - 14
6/9 Saturday - 45 minutes of deadlifts / squats / lunges
6/13 Wednesday - 60 minutes at-home body weight workout - pushups & calisthenics to check max reps - in the middle of Prospect Park Week 3 - June 15 - 21
6/15 Friday - 45 minutes heavy lifting session
6/17 Sunday - 90 minutes body weight challenge on the beach
6/19 Tuesday - 60 minutes weight circuit
6/21 Thursday - 45 minutes deadlifting session Week 4 June 22 - 28
6/23 Saturday - Light gym free for all - not too much - 15 mile run the next day.
6/27 Wednesday - 60 minutes weights free for all in the gym Finale Wrap-Up June 29/30
6/29 Friday Pick 5 moves and find your new max weight 
Flexibility and Rest. I have a few 90 minute hot yoga classes that I will be working in where life allows and will be taking those things I learn home with me. Instead of scheduling my yoga stretchy times, I am instead going to schedule happy quiet playful times. 
Week 1 - June 1-7
6/2 Saturday - on Brooklyn Bridge Run - stop to stretch at the mid-point of the bridge and any other beautiful places along the way. End the run with a cool down, stretchy bit on the top of the Sunset Park Hill and grab strawberries and kiwis and walk the last half mile home. Week 2 - June 8-15
6/8 Friday - morning stretchy bit before and after Coney Island 5 miles on the end of the pier at sunrise, practice handstand
6/10 Sunday - end half marathon - shower - meet Jen in Owls Head Park for upside down tanning on the harbor banks with wine, stretch out and bring foam roller Week 3 - June 15-21
6/16 Saturday - after leisure run around Central Park - practice yoga positions, practice handstand, stretch out, quiet time on the lake by Belvedere Castle or in the Ramble or by the Jackie O reservoir
6/19 Highline Ballroom Concert - cut loose, get drunk in my teeny LBD and love life. Week 4 - June 22-28
6/22 Friday - Practice handstands at Coney Island in the sand before morning run
6/24 Sunday - After 15 miler - meet Jen at the pool in Sunset Park - float on back for like 3 hours, then get tacos
6/28 Thursday - the world’s greatest bubble bath after practicing yoga and strethy bits on the roof Finale Wrap-Up - June 29/30
6/30 - whatever floats my boat after my victory run 
My Nutrition is one part that I feel is going to be the biggest part of all of this. I dont have problems with overeating or bad food choices- but I am dying to know what I an adopt as part of my diet that will greatly effect my bf%- which is what this is all about for me.
www.bodybuilding.com/fun
/brewster26.htm
^ my official bodyfat% formula I will be using to track myself, which lists me at 25.74 as of 5/17 
STARTING MEASUREMENTS NEEDED ON 5/31 
WRIST WAIST HIP FOREARM CHEST HIPS THIGH BICEP CALF
I also used the kindle app on my phone to download a ton of fun vegetarian cookbooks and Ive gotten tons of healthy meal ideas from peeps @ MFP
In case you cant tell, Im going vegetarian as best I can for June.
Goddamn Im going to miss being a raging carnivwhore. 
So let’s see what happens.
pimp is a dirty word! you are so out of line! diaf!
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
In response to a comment aimed at me that I found whilst googling my own challenge this morning:This person says that words are not “just words”. That, creating and participating in a challenge called “Pimp My Pride” shows little regard for the well-being of others and little awareness of the truly horrific conditions that trafficked sex workers experience around the world.
She said my challenge contributes to the normalization and acceptance of forced sexual labour. She compared it to encouraging people to bring back slavery. She said my challenge is equally inappropriate and disrespectful.That I glorify “pimping”, but refuse to educate myself about human trafficking and make a donation to the UN’s Global Initiativeto fight it.
The point! yes, missed it you have! Conclusions, yes, you have jumped to them. Yes, I found it on google, not spark, so I am not addressing a spark member, I am just responding to one of the many concerns elsewhere on the internet concerning my challenge
PIMP - originally an acronym for Put In My Pocket, or in other words, ‘I’ve decided to own this’
-Later used to define a person who sells women for sexual favors (cue uproar from the uneducated, the blinded conservative, everyone that really wants to be angry, and everyone who loves to be offended).
-***Most recently used to commend objects or people.***
Ex: Popular Television Show, “PIMP MY RIDE”, in which deserving members of the community, who regularly contribute to its betterment, that have fallen on hard times are rewarded by having their vehicle given a makeover, specifically one that is tailored to their efforts in their neighborhoods, ie teachers are given mobile offices to take their students outside for teaching, coaches given sporting equipment and storage room as well as the means to instruct outdoors, and the list goes on. Each episode consists of taking one car in poor condition and restoring it and customizing it.
My challenge is about taking one body in poor condition and restoring it and customizing it, because the owner of that body puts a lot of effort and love into their communities and they deserve to have a body strong enough to help them instead of hold them back.
So come yell in my face again about how this challenge is vulgar and condescending to women. And I will tell you that you have lost touch with pop culture and no longer understand that the word ‘pimp’ is no longer just a slang abbreviation for sex trafficking manager… just like ‘cool’ is not simply the temperature of your sugar and fat packed fridge.
Stop worrying so much about a word in a title and think, for one friggin second about the fact that people are mobilizing by the hundreds to exercise…and all you can do is whine, judge, complain, yell, hinder, discourage, HATE and point your little angry sausages at me.
I was an victim of assault slightly over 2 months ago (the length of this challenge) and this challenge is going to (hopefully) help me take back my power and confidence, help me heal from the hell of all of it, help me regain my sense of safety and the ablity to protect myself… and anyone that decides to throw sexual trafficking statistics in my face… well…. have I got a story to tell you. (that is, if you know how to listen in private as well as you can blast in public). AND next time im somewhere and need to beat someone up or climb or run away…. I will be able to handle business. And that dude will be injured. Although standing in an alley screaming I Dare You To Mug Me might not be the smartest minigoal to handle in a challenge.
Im sorry that my personal attempts at righting a wrong that was done to me this summer, is causing your underwear to wedge itself so uncomfortably in your derriere, that you find the need to blog about me and my unhealthy view of sexual abuse and my unconventional means of getting healthy, strong and fit… on sparkpeople, on wordpress, on tumblr, on blogspot, on blogger, on Facebook, on del.ic.io.us, etc… I know you think you are being cute, screaming my name where you think I cant hear you, tearing apart my character…
Can I ask you something? Like… a serious question.
The more people complain about me… the higher my chances grow of being permanently banned from sparkpeople. Now… we all know that not all people are motivated by the same things, God/Big Bang created/shaped us all as indivuduals and our experiences since then have guaranteed so.
So my question is, why is it so very important to you, that I be banned? Why is it so important to you that myself, and everyone similar enough to me to get results from the kind of motivation that Im pimping out… is wiped out?
Why?
Why is there an entire sect of humanity that you hate and that you want to see fail?
Really.. why are you so mean?
I welcome you to join this challenge and update the vehicle you ride around in all the time…your body.
Im doing this for VANITY reasons, but who cares if I end up healthy on the inside along the way.
