MY Jillian comment
Im speaking of Jillians whats her face from Biggest Loser. She is not exactly a hero to me. I find the show cruel, so I can’t watch it. Its a contrived situation. People holed up in a house with food given to them, made to exercise 6-8 hours a day, etc etc. I watched once and people were huffing and puffing and getting yelled at….faces beet red, crying. I know some people have to be pushed…….but thats a little extreme. making someone hate exercise is not necessary. How about some support. How about finding out what makes people tick? I know its for Tv rating and God Bless those who take it off and keep it off as I am all for that of course. But yelling at or arguing with clients isn’t good business for most people.
I understand making people do something they can’t to get over hurdles. My office manager talks about this show every week. She says they dangle sweets in front of these people. Thats a little torturous..don’t you think? Fine, motivate people to lose weigh, be fit, be happy………its all fine and good.
I myself won’t watch it for these reasons. then when they kick people off who really try…..well, thats really stealing someones hope. In my opinion, Jillian is man, people like the guy (BOb?)…..and weightloss is hard enough without anyone maiing you feel like ****, isnt it?
ok, nuff said
November 6, 2009 at 12:16 pm
More than anything, that show is a marketing machine, whether it be for 24hr fitness, products/places or the books/programs put out by the trainers. The show deals only with extremes. Taking people that are extremely unhealthy/overweight and running them through an extreme diet/fitness program that is, as you say, contrived and controlled. It doesn’t do moderation justice and how everyday people can achieve success without going through such extremes. Although I cheer for the success that people achieve I am turned off by the blatant advertising. I guess moderation doesn’t sell.
November 6, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Bob is the kind of trainer I prefer to be as i study for my NASM PT certification. Jillian makes my high school football coach blush and let’s just say that man did not wear a halo. I like the success stories that come from the show but yes it does have a lot of flaws, such as concentrating solely on weight loss insted of BF percentage and body measurements.
November 6, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Yea, it’s definitely taking things to the "Extreme" but as you said, it’s for the ratings and ratings alone. If I trained a client like that I’d end up with lawsuites galore! LOL. I do watch it though. I got into it when I used to work for 24 Hour Fitness, since it was ‘techincally’ their show. The good news is, however, when they get sent home, they aren’t just ‘let go’. The contestants are continuously trained (with their training and gym memberships paid for) as well as having access to a lot of the resources they had at ‘the ranch’ besides Bob and Jillian. We trained quite a few of them in the NJ club for the Finale and they still get everything handed to them until the show is ‘officially’ over
November 6, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I think it’s a context issue. The clients I deal with have not let themselves become morbidly obese, have not become a medical burden on everyone, have not lost all sense of self, and have not fully committed themselves to an extreme process, which from an intervention standpoint is needed at an emergency level for most of the contestants. If you watched enough, you’d see that Jillian DOES get to the roots of the problems. She DOES show her softer side (probably WAY more than the program editors show in their distilled edit). While for the general populace, muscle tone and BF% are key, along with cardio capacity and strength, THESE people in particular need to loose hundreds of pounds. Context.