Biggest Loser

dublingal80

Anyone watch this show? I'm addicted to it. the Trainers are just so motivational

Gaz

I bet the money is a pretty good motivation too ...

squod

Can anyone point me to an online vid or stream? My TV is over-run with 'soaps'.

df1985

sad thing is a lot of them pile it all back on after the show ends.

neilmct.com

This show is a joke. Make fat people run, feck up their joints and reinforce the fact that they will hate exercise the rest of their lives.

Why not have a show with proper fitness professionals performing corrective exercise/ myofascial release / activation techniques/ proper form on deads, squats etc.

Roper

neilmct.com wrote: »

This show is a joke. Make fat people run, feck up their joints and reinforce the fact that they will hate exercise the rest of their lives.

Why not have a show with proper fitness professionals performing corrective exercise/ myofascial release / activation techniques/ proper form on deads, squats etc.

Because no one would break down and cry on screen and make the ratings soar in that case.

J.S. Pill

df1985 wrote: »

sad thing is a lot of them pile it all back on after the show ends.

Yeah, that's starvation diets for ya,

Some of the stories about the measures some contestants took are just insane:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1626795_1627112_1626456,00.html

http://munfitnessblog.com/the-truth-behind-the-biggest-loser-reality-show-which-never-being-told/


Sustainable? Don't think so.

Illkillya

“I wanted to win so bad that the last ten days before the final weigh-in I didn’t eat one piece of solid food! If you’ve heard of “The Master Cleanse” that’s what I did. It is basically drinking lemonade made with water, fresh squeezed lemon juice, pure maple syrup, and cayenne pepper.

Last season's runner-up, Kai Hibbard, 28, an aerobics instructor in Alaska who says she spent the night before her final weigh-in hopping in and out of a sauna for six hours, consumed only sugar-free Jell-O for several days and wolfed down asparagus, which is a natural diuretic. "

Wow... hope that people aren't taking their inspiration from that. Giving a $250k prize for this kind of thing should not be allowed... reminds me of those dodgy radio competitions in America that people have died from.

BraziliaNZ

there should be a boards biggest loser, using photographs or something! Is it possible to post pics anonymously here? Should that be an option for self-conscious posters? Errrr me not being one of course...

Khannie

Actually it's kinda some good some bad as a show. They show very little of the diet part and an awful lot of the exercise part but the weight loss that the contestants are looking at is going to be mostly caused by having very little to eat.

To be fair, some of the people who go on it are in really really bad shape and almost anything that shifts the weight is going to be better than staying in their current state. Also, don't forget that many of them go on to live much healthier lives after the show.

Of course it would be better if they lost the weight at a nice steady 2-3lb's a week, but it's a bit like the lipotrim debate....does the end justify the means? IMO, in some cases, the answer is yes, unfortunately.

d'Oracle

Its horrible Voyeuristic rubbish. IMO.

d'Oracle

Interestingly, this dropped into my inbox recently, only checked it this morning.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/biggest-loser/

Magic Eight Ball

The Biggest Loser = The audience!

WesternNight

df1985 wrote: »

sad thing is a lot of them pile it all back on after the show ends.

And I'm sure a lot of people don't.

With something like this it's always going to be up to the person whether or not the want to really make the effort. It's not really the show's fault.

We only see a tiny portion of what's going on...personally I'd like to see more of what kinds of foods they're eating and how much of it. But I'm going to assume that if they're doing the amount of exercise that they seem to be doing, then they're eating a reasonable amount. Otherwise they'd be falling down all over the place.

ragg

The way the trainers treat the fatties is horrendous.
They aren't motivational, some psyco screaming abuse in your face isn't motivational - its torture.

With that said, I defy anyone to find me better hungover TV :pac:

civis_liberalis

I was on a show about losing weight once.

I'm much heavier than I was to start with now.

Not blaming it totally on the programme. Just saying.

I'm not motivated enough to maintain anything I learned from my time on it.

None of the clothes I have fit properly and I tend to avoid large social gatherings.

The motivation I got from the show was that everyone I know was going to be watching and lots of people I didn't know as well. Once that motivation was taken away and I was left to my own devices when I returned home, I was back into the old bad routines. Winter came and it was the perfect excuse not to go to football training, even though in the few short weeks I was playing after I returned from the show, I was asked specifically by the manager to come to a game, because of my efforts in training. (Not because I was running rings around people but because I was as good as anyone else I suppose) That was something I never experienced before.

Now I'm not even healthy enough to play 5-a-side. I just find it too difficult. I never learned how to motivate myself in my usual environment and I'm so far away from what I was before that I can't motivate myself to do anything about it. Jobless and back living with parents and pretty overweight.

I'm sorry for dragging this off on a tangent but programmes like the biggest loser can be a lot more harm than good, for people such as myself.