Ex-Mayor Pushes It With Trainer

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Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is certainly fit for whatever challenge he takes on next – at least physically.

He has been proving that to his personal trainer by dropping to the floor and doing an extra set of pushups after every session.

“My first thought at seeing him doing this was that I hadn’t been training him hard enough. So every session I would increase the intensity of the workouts,” said Beverly Hills trainer to the stars Lalo Fuentes. “But no matter how hard I trained him, he always did that extra set of pushups at the end. After a few weeks, I finally got the message.”

Villaraigosa, 62, recently decided against running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, prompting speculation that he will campaign for governor of California in 2018 instead.

Fuentes, 37, says he doesn’t know his client’s future ambitions and is focusing on his own plans, having just released a series of workout DVDs and a natural energy drink through his business, Lalo Fitness.

The Peruvian-born trainer works with chief executives, politicians, supermodels and TV stars, such as “Revenge” actress Emily VanCamp. He has recently been seeking to increase his celebrity client list and last week exhibited at the MTV Movie Awards GBK gifting suite, where he offered three free training sessions, with a total value of $450, to any stars who stopped by his booth.

Tales of Wheels to Spin

Chuck O’Neal doesn’t think he’s interesting, but his summer vacation plans suggest otherwise.

The founder of Santa Monica private equity firm Bridge Ventures will start his trip in July by circling Iceland on a motorcycle with four good friends. The group tries each year to take two-wheeled trips in such exotic locales as Thailand, Chile and the Alps.

O’Neal, 48, and his buddies usually rent powerful BMW adventure bikes, ride all day and camp or stay in eco-lodges at night.

“We haven’t decided where we’ll stay in Iceland,” O’Neal said. “We try not to book places ahead of time because on the way, we often change plans.”

The unexpected on these trips has ranged from sinking a bike in four feet of Chilean mud to navigating a hail storm in the Alps with fog so thick the group couldn’t see eight feet in front of them.

If that sounds stressful, fear not. After spending a week circling Iceland, O’Neal will head to the Savoie region of France to relax at his family’s summer home: a rehabbed century-old former monastery.

O’Neal and his wife, Sukeshi, bought the 10-room, 14-bathroom property in 2001 when it was so decrepit his young kids slept in a tent to avoid bugs. But with the help of O’Neal’s retired engineer father, they painstakingly restored the 13,000-square-foot chateau over two years, replacing electrical and plumbing systems and reroofing the towers.

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