Bums were well and truly on seats last night for the first in the series of The Biggest Loser UK. Lazy boy was skeptical at first muttering something about ‘exploitation’, but the tried and tested reality TV format sucked him in and by somewhere around the second advert break he was well and truly hooked.
With six hours in the gym being shouted at by the personal trainers every day and a strict diet to follow it’s no wonder that many of the contestents lost a stone in the first week. As we all know, if you’re trying to lose weight, slow and steady is usually the best strategy to adopt. But this is TV, we want to see people shrinking betwen blinks.
Coincidentally I was sent a voucher for a free Bootcamp session this week. I’ve seen these happening on Clapham Common as I’ve run home in the past and, to be honest, they look like my idea of hell. Being shouted at and told to do things does not generate anything other than crossed arms and a stoppy face from me. So the two trainers in The Biggest Loser would not make me run further, faster or be able to jump over things by raising their voices, it would be counter productive.
If you misses it the result
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Janathon Day 11
5 mile gentle run tonight. Legs fels weirdly not my own.
I got drawn into that last night because Mr Magathon was watching it… have to say, I think I’ll probably be watching their ‘dramatic weight loss’ each week!
I’m also with you completely on those boot camp things, I was going to join a BMF until my friend pointed out that I get a face on me like a smacked giraffe’s ass when doing a class in the gym where the instructor uses that technique… I reconsidered that one!
LOVE IT – oooh that Orange team were lucky – lazy buggers!!
I got hooked by the last US series, the episode I saw they were literally making morbidly obese people jump through hoops.
And I’m definitely with you on the sulky face when it comes to being shouted at!