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"FacebookPinterest\n\nDaniel: I'm 23 years old and rely almost entirely on my age to keep me in moderate shape. Before the Challenge, I would run on occasion (maybe a three-mile jog every couple weeks) and walk the semi-significant distances that any New Yorker does. But since graduating from college two years ago, I'd gone from being outdoors endlessly (and playing intramural sports, etc) to sitting at a desk in the GQ office most days where I can feel myself, day-by-day, putting on weight, losing energy, and generally fading from the semi-fit camp I'd figured I'd always run with. I was looking forward to receiving the conditioning and training that would allow me to make working out a part of my new, post-college life. Or, in other words, I wanted to reverse the slow, downward spiral before it got too late.\n\nDevin: I will be playing the part of the Wiley Veteran. Like Kevin Costner in Bull Durham. (Jesus, please, no.) I'm 37 years old and became a father about nine months ago. For the last twenty years I've been a binge erciser: three months on, six months off; eight months on, three months off; etc. etc. I run, lift weights, do yoga, your typical metrosexual (do people still say that?) bullshit. I've always caught myself before I slipped into jowly slothitude. Except this time. Since the birth of my baby, I'd say I've ercised maybe six times. Once every, I guess, 1.5 months. And I've been packing on the Ben &amp;amp; Jerry's. My goal is to figure out a way to get working out back into the schedule of my life again. To tip my body composition back toward the muscle range from the fat zone. To, in short, become human again.\n\nMark: I'm 30 years old, engaged-but-not-yet-married, physically active but not an athlete since high school. Prior to starting the Fitness Challenge, I was working out fairly often, but not in any concentrated or systematic way: three or so runs a week, two or three sessions in the gym where I'd mostly do body-weight stuff (pull-ups, push-ups, dips, and sit-ups). I'd never gone to any sort of personal trainer before starting this program, and while I knew generally how to maintain the fitness I already have, I lacked the motivation and know-how to get into truly great shape\u2014to understand what it takes (beyond good genes) to approach the level of badass fitness you see in, say, a triathlete or an action movie star. I wasn't expecting to become Daniel Craig in twelve weeks or anything, but I was excited by the idea of seeing what kinds of fitness gains you'd make if you pushed hard\u2014all the time.\n\nAnd that fourth guy up there? He's Will, our \"control group,\" who volunteered to on living his normal, non-Fitness Challenge life so that we'd have someone to measure our progress against.\n\nWill: I haven't really worked out since my high school basketball coach made me run suicides until I puked on my teammate's Reeboks. Maybe that experience put me off physical fitness. I guess I did run around the indoor track a couple times in college, but it was mostly because the super foxy girl from my Introduction to Literary Theory class was always there in the gym, climb-climb-climbing away on the Stairmaster. I'm 28 years old. I go out too late, I drink too much, and I smoke. Sorry, mom, for being so irresponsible. I was kind of insulted when my co-workers asked me if I'd be the \"control group\" for this ercise experiment\u2014what, you guys think I don't like push-ups?\u2014but then I figured if I just double the amount I smoke and switch from bourbon and Coke to vodka and soda, I'd probably lose more weight than Devin \"Dad Guy\" Friedman. Plus I'm six-feet six-inches tall, so any fat I put on just kind of stretches out. (Not to get all scientific.) Anyway...anyone got a light?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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