Posted on 12/02/2005 1:24:15 AM PST by Panerai
NASCAR Champ Stewart Goes on Shopping Spree, for Exercise Equipment, He Hopes Will Lead to Repeat
Tony Stewart went on a shopping spree last week that he hopes will lead to a new and improved Nextel Cup champion.
"I went out and bought $17,000 worth of exercise equipment for my house," Stewart said Wednesday as he prepared for yet another of the dozens of media events this week in New York, leading up to Friday night's NASCAR awards ceremony at which he will collect checks for more than $5.8 million.
Most of that goes to his Joe Gibbs Racing team, but Stewart will certainly keep more than enough of it to consider his latest shopping trip pocket money. And, he said it will certainly be worth it as an important next step in his maturation process.
The 5-foot-9 Stewart, who probably weighs at least 20 pounds more than the 185 listed in the NASCAR media guide, admittedly loves fast food and has often made himself the brunt of his own jokes about how out of shape he is.
Earlier this year, he celebrated several of his five race victories by climbing the grandstand fence and clambering onto the flagstand as thousands of fans cheered the effort.
"I'm way too old and too fat to be doing that," he said at the time.
"I'm going to get in shape for next year," Stewart said Wednesday. "I've got to. As you get older, your body changes and I can't do the kind of things I used to do, like eat three cheeseburgers on my way home and then eat dinner an hour later.
"I'm tired of puffing and panting when I climb up two flights of stairs. I've got to start taking better care of myself."
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at 52, I decided the same thing last year, but my budget won't allow for that kind of equipment
my budget allows for plastic gallon milk jugs filled with various amounts of sand, and alot of cutting fireplace wood
.... and we don't even burn it ;)
(He cracks me up!)
ha ha ha ha ha,
Wait, I thought NASCAR drivers were professional athletes too!
Tony went to the John Kruk gym :-)
What? Because he wants to get in shape? So, he's more manly if he becomes a fat slob like Jimmy Spencer? C'mon.
It's Jeff Gordon who has a crew nicknamed "The Rainbow Warriors"...
Why $17K worth of equipment? If you're going to splurge on exercise equipment, why not just buy a nice pair of $70.00 Nikes and a few pairs of jogging shorts and t-shirts? I'll throw in some push-ups and sit-ups for free!
In a years time that excercise equipment will be on sale at the Salvation Army.
Not a bad place to pick up used excercise equipment by the way.
Sounds like he has been inspired by the old man of racing, Mark Martin.
Is that the same bunch of guys that used to crew for Tim Richmond?
Hopefully the bowflex builds up some strong humility muscles.
$1000 for a BowFlex and $16,000 for big screen plasma TVs and surround sound for the "exercise room".
If he's smart, he'll hire Mark to be his trainer. Mark is probably the healthiest driver in NASCAR.
Wonder if Tony will also dump the grunge look. It would be nice if he'd shave, shower and put on clean clothes more often than once a month or so.
Richmond got the Skinnies from dangerous forms of partying. He was a big ladies' man, and unless he was a switch-hitter, the drug use did him in.
From what I have read, Richmond died of AIDS. I should not have made any suggestions on how he acquired the disease.
We can't post Getty Images, but here's a link to a photo of Jeff's girlfriend. They are wearing their Holloween costumes for a party. Jeff went as a table lamp and Ingrid went as...well, you'll see.
When you he-men who like to sniff about Jeff's sexuality manage to get a stunner like that on you're arms, let me know.
Oh, and BTW, Ben, Tim Richmond died long before Jeff ever came on the scene. The current 24 team doesn't have a single person who goes back that far.
You can get it from IV drug use as well as sex.
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