Airbrushed Cadillac - Top It.

I dare you to send me your worst date stories.

Terrible as they may be, I’m confident that they wouldn’t be able to compete with that of a friend of mine, who had someone pick her up in a lime green Cadillac SUV with his own face airbrushed on the doors. He had recently written a diet book and evidently thought his car made for a good publication vehicle.

In a recent press release, Abox Publishing and author Ted Skup warn people about fitness nuts like this. They claim to be “taking on the 35 billion-dollar fitness industry and explaining why it is failing us with its bogus claims, magic bullets and quick fixes” so often found on car doors.

However, this challenge apparently does not apply to Ted Skup's fad workout plan as presented in his new book, "Death, Taxes & Push-Ups."

Dubbed by Skup as “the most explosive exercise on the planet!” push-ups seem to be the latest unsung workout regiment. In fact, Skup thinks that push-ups are so underrated that he re-branded them as “Horizontal Jogging.”

“Although the fitness industry may not want to hear it, push-ups are free. No equipment, no gimmicks, and totally portable,” said Skup. Except, of course, for the $18.95 + shipping you need to spend on a copy of “Death, Taxes & Push Ups.”

I’m not really interested in push ups, let alone an entire book about them. But if Ted Skup showed up at my apartment with this on the hood of his Cadillac, I would definitely go for coffee.