Exercising in front of Netflix - Very silly motivational nonsense

Hello fiends! This is a bit of a different post, and a bit of a silly one (albeit one I put far more time and energy into than was really necessary) but given the world's gone completely mad lately and we're all stuck in lock down I thought I'd share some fun, hopefully mildly amusing, inspiration for exercise! This is all linked to a video, which will be in a separate blog post (although if you've followed the link from Youtube, you might have already seen it), but in summary, I am a terrible shut-in and I do most of my exercise in my room watching Netflix anyway, and as a joke I started thinking of silly motivational things while binge-watching the entirety of Star Trek over the last five months. It all escalated to this lengthy, but in no way exhaustive, list of nonsense.

These are split into two sections, the first being (hopefully) funny inspiration, the rest being forfeits. Forfeits are like a drinking game or bingo, but better for you: every time a certain thing happens in the show, you do 10 reps of your chosen exercise; crunches, squats, weights, press ups, lunges, or whatever else you want to do. You can pick a number of forfeits to do, switch exercises part way through, or add your own forfeits. All of this is in fun, and hopefully motivate some extra movement in your day.

This list is by no means everything I've binged on Netflix, just the things I could think of vaguely mildly amusing phrases or forfeits for. A few favourites, like Mindhunter or The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, I just couldn't think of things that weren't “run like you're trying to escape *insert name of villainous character here*”. Also this is all skewed towards the things I watch and am familiar with, so it's mainly horror, sci-fi, cartoons and anime, with a lot of Star Trek.

I am a deeply silly person, sorry but not that sorry.

Star Trek

Work out like a Klingon, because today is a good day for thighs!

Franchise specific forfeits: 10 reps every time...

A shuttle crashes on an M class planet

A Vulcan starts talking about logic

A Klingon starts talking about honour

A Ferengi starts talking about profit

the Borg mention the collective

Jeffery Combs shows up playing a different random alien

An actor from a previous series turns up

Someone lists historic events and includes something that hasn't happened yet

Someone is abducted and forced to fight something

Spock has gone missing

Someone claims to have no emotions

Someone pauses the turbolift to have a meaningful conversation/argument

Someone's slicked-back hair gets ruffled

Something goes wrong on the holodeck/holosuite

Q turns up (5 more reps if he's only there to do something stupid)

The Original Series

Run until you cannae take any more, Captain!

Run until you're as sweat as Sulu when he was running around shirtless with a sword

Run like you've just been told to fight a Gorn

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Spock and McCoy argue

Someone says a catch phrase

Scotty drinks scotch

Kirk falls for an alien lady

Spock gets emotional

Chekov claims something is Russian

The Animated Series

Run like you're going to be rotorscoped

Run like Tribbles from a Gloppit

The Next Generation

Run like the Borg are after you

Forfeits: 10 reps every time..

Someone quotes Shakespeare

Riker puts one foot up on the helm or sits down weirdly

Data doesn't understand something human

Data makes an inquiry and then lists off words like he's a walking thesaurus

A Starfleet higher-up does something awful and/or phenomenally stupid

Reg Barclay does something awkward

Geordi's visor gets knocked off

Guinan gives advice

Geordi has to tinker in Data's head

Deep Space 9

Run like Gul Dukat is trying to flirt with you

Run like a Ferengi who just heard the word “taxes”

Run like the Jem Ha'dar caught you on the wrong side of the wormhole

Run like Weyoun 6 ran from the Dominion

Forfeits: 10 reps every time

Odo folds his arms and harrumphs

Someone is replaced by a shape-shifter

Bashir flirts with someone

Kira punches someone

Someone mentions baseball (5 more if it's Sisko)

A Cardassian drinks kanar (5 more if it's Damar)

Garak lies unnecessarily (Hard mode: 10 reps every time Garak lies)

Dukat does something reprehensible (it's up to you whether you do reps for every really awful thing he does, or just... you know, whenever he's on screen)

Something awful and unfair happens to O'Brien

Dax mentions her past hosts

There's a joke about Morn talking too much

Worf drinks prune juice

Weyoun sucks up to a Founder

Voyager

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Tom Paris makes everything worse

Janeway drinks coffee

Chakotay brings up his heritage

An Alpha Quadrant race turns up in the Delta Quadrant

The Doctor says something sassy when everyone else has left the room

Seven of Nine doesn't understand individuality

Seven of Nine has to deal with a child

B'elanna punches something

Neelix cooks something that no one likes

Tuvok meditates

Seven of Nine and the Doctor team up

Time travel nonsense happens

Voyager shaves years off it journey

Enterprise

Run like you can escape the theme song

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Phloxx fusses with the menagerie he keeps in sick bay

There's a reference to the creation of something from the Original Series

Someone mentions water polo

Trip mentions an old film

Someone is lecherous towards T'Pol

The Vulcans do something suspect

The Xindi argue amongst themselves

The dog shows up

Discovery

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Someone turns out to be from the Mirror Universe

Someone gets brutally beaten

There's a flashback to Sarek being a slightly rubbish dad

Tilly overshares

Space fungus science happens

Michael stares into the middle distance

Saru gets panicky

Stranger Things

Run like the demigorgon is after you

Forfeits: 10 reps every time

There's 80s nosalgia

The kids get on their bikes

Someone is puzzled by Eleven's name

Joyce is badass

Eleven gets a nosebleed

IZombie

Run like you've just dunk Max Rager

Run like you're in training to join Fillmore Graves

Run like you've gone full Romero

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Liv does something strange because of the brain she's on

Ravi does something nerdy

Clive shows his inner nerd

Liv and Major break up/get back together

Blaine does something shifty

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Run like the Dark Lord wants your signature

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Sabrina and Harvey break up/get together (10 more if it's because of witch stuff)

The witches celebrate a holiday that's a witchy version of a normal human one

Sabrina makes things worse with magic

Salem meows

The Witcher

Run like Henry Cavill is in ten steps ahead of you with his shirt off

Run like it'll get “Toss a Coin to your Witcher” out of your head

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Geralt takes his shirt off

The bard says something daft (10 more if Geralt responds with a gunt)

Someone changes their appearance with magic

Black Mirror

Just run from everything. Nothing good ever happens to people in this show!

Run like you need 50,000 credits

Tiger King

Run like a redneck with tigers just put out a hit on you

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Someone does an interview without a shirt

Joe calls Carol a bitch

Someone does something with a tiger that you probably shouldn't do with a tiger

Drugs are mentioned

The Haunting of Hill House

Run like you just saw that poor possessed kitten

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

There's a reference to the book (5 more if it's completely out of context and not as good)

One of the family sees a ghost

Things would be much easier if the family just talked to each other

Hannibal

Run like you've just seen Hannibal on his “grocery” run

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Murder is art

Will says “this is my design”

Will hallucinates

Hannibal makes a double entendre about cannibalism

Cartoons

Genre specific forfeits: 10 reps every time...

There's a fourth wall break

There's a pop culture reference

Someone sings a song (it's up to you whether the theme tune counts)

The animation style changes for purposes of flashback, parody, or imagination

Rick and Morty

Run like Rick runs for actually having to deal with anything

Run like it'll get you into another dimension

Run like it'll get you that sweet Szechuan sauce

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Rick drinks or gets high

Morty says “oh geez”

Jerry does something pathetic

Rick uses the portal gun

There's a testicle monster

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Run like you're training for the Horde

Work out until you're as buff as Scorpia

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Glimmer messes up a teleport

Adora transforms into She Ra

Catra and Adora stare at one another before Catra walks off

Over the Garden Wall

Run until you're out of the Unknown

Run until Greg finds a name for his frog

Forfeits; 10 reps every time...

Someone mentions the Beast

Greg does something goofy

Greg tells a ROCK FACT

Wirt says something melodramatic

Teen Titans Go!

Run like Robin set your exercise plan

Run until you've burned off all that pizza

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Robin is wrong about something

Raven watches her pegasus cartoon

Raven does magic

Beast Boy is dumber than everyone else

Starfire says “the”” unnecessarily

Cyborg partially dismantles himself

Spongebob Squarepants

Run until you've got as much energy as Spongebob

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Spongebob and Ptrick ruin Squidward's day

Mr Krabs talks about money

Plankton tries to steal the formula

Steven Universe

Run until you're as tough as Garnet

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Steven cries

Steven obsesses over food

Two or more Gems fuse

Amethyst is a slob

Something surprisingly dark happens

Gems express love for one another (platonic, romantic, or unrequited, because yay queer space rock people)

Anime

Genre Specific Forfeits:

Random chibi moments

There's a sudden tone shift and everything gets deep and emotional

Death Note

Run like you're being compelled to do it by a magic notebook

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

There's a dramatic “writing in the book” sequence

L sits like a weirdo

Misa whines “Lighto-kuuuuun”

Ryuuk eats an apple

Castlevania

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

The main three bicker with each other

Someone sits on their own and mopes

There's a gory fight scene

The church is awful

There's a flashback to things being slightly less awful

Fullmetal Alchemist

Run like it'll get the image of that chimera out of your head

Run until you're as buff as Alex Armstrong

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Someone thinks Al is the “full metal alchemist”

Ed freaks out because someone calls him short

Something heartbreakingly awful happens

Someone turns out to be a homunculus or working for them

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Run because if this really is the apocalypse, you don't want to run into angels like these

Run until Shinji gets in his battle robot

Run so you don't get stuck in that elevator

Forfeits: 10 reps every time...

Shinji doesn't do what he's told

Someone cries

Asuka yells

Someone is lecherous towards any of the female characters

There's a reference to Christianity

Devilman Crybaby

I would say “run like you've given yourself to a demon” but maybe not, running on all fours looks difficult

And now this has gone on for far longer than I had anticpated, so I'm going to stop before I get even more carried away. Feel free to share your own ideas in the comments!