100 Days: John and Chris's health and fitness show (2016)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2020-02-11) · last mentioned: 2026-02-13
In September 2016 John announced 100 Days, a health and fitness show with his best friend Chris Waters; filming began that November, the show started on 1 January 2017, and in 2020 John recalled finishing the 100-day challenge.
Parts: John asks viewers to subscribe to 100 Days at youtube.com/100days (2016) · John: answer viewers' questions about 100 Days in a live show the same day (2016) · John asks viewers to sponsor his and Chris's 100 Days 10K run, proceeds to Exodus refugee resettlement (2017) · John and Chris: run a 10K race on day 100 of 100 Days, with sponsorship proceeds going to Exodus (2017)
About: 100 Days, Chris Waters
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-13 | announced | From January 1 viewers can watch John and his best friend Chris attempt the healthiest midlife crisis, with videos, routines, recipes, live shows and text posts, all on YouTube. | YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) 00:03:04 |
| 2016-11-22 | milestone | John says he and his best friend Chris have just started filming their health and fitness show 100 Days, which starts January 1. | On Not Seeing Hamilton 00:02:26 |
| 2017-01-03 | launched | John announces 100 Days has begun: he and his best friend Chris are trying a healthy midlife crisis, learning about health and fitness over 100 days. | 10 Years on YouTube (...and MORE GREAT NEWS) 00:00:17 |
| 2020-02-11 (happened 2017) | outcome | Almost exactly three years ago John finished a 100-day fitness challenge with his best friend Chris, documented on YouTube; now he shares the good and bad of over 1,000 days of exercise. | 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:00:00 |
| 2026-02-13 | looked back | John says he loved 100 Days: one of their least successful projects, but he feels it made a difference in people's lives. | Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 03:05:19 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) — announcement: John: For a couple of years John has wanted to make 100 Days, a YouTube health show in which two ordinary people spend 100 days eating well, exercising and doing what trials show improves health. — 00:00:28
- 2017-01-24 · On Motivation — John says that on 100 Days he is on a health and fitness journey with his best friend Chris, and jokes that he is becoming a self-help book. — 00:00:02
- 2017-01-24 · On Motivation — John ran nine miles yesterday and around mile four caught himself thinking 'you don't have to get ready if you stay ready': he has become a fan of motivational quotes. — 00:01:33
- 2017-01-24 · On Motivation — John: Instead of abandoning his real work for 100 days as he expected, John is enjoying writing more than in years, has more time for it, and writes pretty much every day. — 00:02:50
- 2017-02-07 (said on 2017-02-02, implied) · Good News, YA Books, and Bears: It's Question Tuesday — John's favorite part of 100 Days is how bad he and Chris are at high fives: best friends for a decade, they have never completed one. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:11
- 2017-03-07 · Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story — announcement: John: In a P.S., John says he and his best friend Chris are on a health and fitness journey on 100 Days and will run a 10K race on day 100, with all proceeds to Exodus. — 00:04:39