- [Dana] What would happen to my life
if I decided to work out for 100 days
in a row, and actually stuck with it?
Rewind to the summer of 2019,
my husband Lou and I have been living
in our van Ody for almost two years now,
traveling through Europe, and one day
in Greece we decide to commit to 100 days
of working out, because if we can
accomplish this challenge while living
in a van with nothing but a bag
as a shower, no gym membership,
and no fancy fitness equipment,
then I guess that means anything is possible.
(tennis ball pops)
Ever since I was a little girl, my dream
in life was to become a professional
soccer player like Mia Hamm.
I'd watch these incredible athletes
on TV and wonder, how can I be like them?
These women are superheroes,
and my mission was to join them.
(machine buzzes)
When I tore the ACL in left knee,
that dream came crashing down.
After surgery, my knee was never the same.
Before the injury, I was a bit of a wild child,
running, jumping, and kicking it with the boys.
My goal for the next 100 days is to
find that joy again.
I've never completed a single exercise
program from start to finish since
my knee injury, but that's all about to change.
(upbeat music)
What do you think of that?
- [Lou] That's nice.
- Right, it's happening!
(Lou laughs)
- [Lou] That is...
- The commitment.
- [Lou] Right.
- Today's the day, it's day one.
- [Lou] No hiding.
- No, this is our life now,
we are committing to health.
(upbeat music)
10.
Day five, woo hoo (laughs),
I'm loving this.
Okay, we are very sweaty and very sandy.
What is it, day nine?
- Day nine, 100 Days of Sweat.
- Woo
If 100 days of continuous workouts
in a row seems a little extreme,
it's because it was invented by this guy,
Ammar, one of the creators of Yes Theory.
We met Ammar in Paris a few years back,
but let's fast forward to the day he announced:
Yes Theory would like to challenge you to sweat
every day, for the next 100 days.
For me, these 100 days of working out are
not just about improving my physical health,
but also my mental health as well.
By now it's clear that working out has
incredible physical health benefits,
- [Narrator] but it turns out breaking
a sweat is also good for the brain.
- Better mood, better energy,
better memory, better attention.
- Exercise has beneficial effects on
almost every single organ system in the body.
- [Lou] Hmm, good morning.
- Good morning.
- [Lou] Today is a very special day.
Today's workout is gonna be a little different.
(upbeat music)
- I don't think it'd be a Yes Theory
video challenge if we didn't go
to an abandoned building, this is crazy.
Look at these views babe.
- [Lou] Cool.
(upbeat music)
Your first blister.
- Yeah, it's not so bad, but it hurt
a lot yesterday when we were on our walk,
so I think we're gonna take a few days
off from walking, and swim instead,
because I don't want this to like actually become
something that opens, and oh God, gross!
One of my goals for 100 days of sweat
is to become stronger, not just on land,
but also in the water.
To feel confident swimming in the ocean,
to learn to hold by breath longer,
and to stay calm underwater.
There's this feeling of pure bliss mixed
with exhaustion that you get after swimming
for hours in these turquoise waters.
(upbeat music)
I feel like we're really getting
the hang of this thing,
but I am a little nervous
because from now until the end of
100 Days of Sweat, we're gonna be
in eleven countries.
(dramatic music)
Like what?
Eleven countries, all different places,
and the hardest part of keeping a habit
is making a routine that supports that habit.
And what happens when your routine
is just thrown out the window
and your in all these different places?
So, yeah, I'm a little nervous,
but I'm really happy we have each other.
(upbeat music)
(jet engine roars)
(tires screech on runway)
(car lock clunks)
- Oh, big first day,
we are just gonna sleep in a parking lot (laughs).
- That was our plan the whole time,
but now that we're in here, it's so narrow.
(upbeat music)
He showed me how to do this, nope.
- Metal bar there, metal bar there.
(air whooshes into mattress)
- Oh, squishy.
Oh boy, I mean, do you wanna sleep like this?
(door creeks)
Oh, what?
No mater where we are.
- (pants) What is it, day eighteen?
- You're sweating.
You excited?
- [Lou] Yeah.
- I can't believe we get to do
a real, proper hike!
I have water and a raincoat, that's it.
It says four to six hours.
We only have enough money to pay for three hours
of parking, so we gotta book it Lou!
(dramatic music)
- Arg.
- Good morning, isn't this beautiful?
- I feel like we really got to
see Scotland by doing this.
Yeah, and I got a really bad cold (coughing).
Honestly, today I thought I was gonna quit.
(water splashes)
(feet pound on gravel)
(panting)
(water gushes)
keep it moving.
(dramatic music)
(yawning)
Oh my gosh, no way back.
Okay, so, it's day 98, and this is crazy,
but somehow it is 9:15 and we are in Iceland
now, we got to Iceland 2 o'clock in the morning
last night, we made it here.
We are now in Lou's cousin's car,
and then we went grocery shopping,
then we got to this campsite,
and then unpacked, and then we went
to go take a shower, we were so tired.
And in the shower I'm thinking,
wow I got really sweaty yesterday
and didn't wash my hair,
and then I was like oh my God,
I got sweaty yesterday,
not today, and it hit me that we
hadn't done our 100 Days of Sweat today.
And then I had this moment where I was like,
I could just go to sleep and not tell Lou,
and he won't remember, and then I won't
have to do my 100 Days of Sweat.
And then I was like, oh man what should I do,
should I tell him, should I be a good person?
And I decided, I told Lou,
he couldn't believe we'd forgotten
but I have come down with a really bad cold,
I'm just getting over it (coughing).
And I've decided today I'm skipping it,
because I'm clean, finally clean,
I'm back in the van
it's windy outside and gross,
and I just like have had enough of today,
so I can't, I'm not doing it.
But Lou on the other hand will
do anything for a cheque, so.
(upbeat music)
- This is a very tight space.
(Lou strains)
Day 98, never give up.
- Aww, so that can be for the day
that I missed, sorry guys.
Day 99, we're doing some stairs,
I'm so excited!
- [Lou] All the way up there.
(upbeat music).
(water sprays)
(waterfall roars)
(water drips)
It is day 100 of 100 Days of Sweat.
Okay.
Good morning, let's do this, last day!
(feet pound on shingle)
(waves roar)
This is a hard chart to fill out,
I feel very proud of us Lou.
- [Lou] Yeah.
- I can't believe it, 100 Days of sweat.
- [Lou] Yeah
- That was so hard.
- Surprisingly, by the end, the last 20 days,
I think for me were like really pushing it.
- [Lou] Yeah, I do not recommend you
do this in a van.
- No this is more like a apartment
or house challenge, van life,
I don't think this makes sense.
But we did it.
(Lou laughs)
I just missed one day, oops.
Done, done, done, done, done, done.
Yeah, we did it!
- [Lou] We did it.
- Woo hoo
(feet pound on shingle)
(upbeat music)
(graphics whoosh)
(Dana whoops)