4 rounds @ 1 min "on" 15 sec "off" of:
High sumo KB 35/53
OH BB push press 25/45
Biceps DB curls 15/20
Burpees
Running man ring dips
Post total reps for each exercise to comments.
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Last time we did this workout Tracy pulled a 95. That is 125 lbs. she's standing there with folks! OUT-FRICKIN-STANING!
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I wrote "I hate the biggest loser" a couple of years ago. It has never been popular with those who read it. I have received hate mail from my stance on this show. Some of it is in good fun. Some of it...not SO much. Despite this, I publish it every year about the same time that the TV show starts up a new season. It is my sincere hope that those who read it will take it in the spirit it was written.
It was written in support of people who have weight issues. It was written in condemnation of an industry that would capitalize on someones deep seeded insecurities and weaknesses. It was written in hopes that all who read this will realize that the exploitation of the desperate is wrong EVEN if it helps them in the short term. It was written to illustrate that short term help is the worst injury that can be inflicted on those who are truly ill. - N
I HATE “the Biggest
Loser.”
by Neil Anderson
For those of you who live in the sweet bliss that is: not
knowing what “the Biggest Loser” is – it’s a TV show that gives false
hope to millions while humiliating and manipulating the minds of the poor folk
(contestants) who are trying to overcome a very serious and debilitating
illness (morbid obesity). All of this is done under the frustratingly
condescending guise of “helping the contestants” while exploiting them for
ratings and other self-serving purposes.
Here’s the thing –
most of the time – the poor folk on the show actually get healthier, at least in the short term. So, why
hate it? Because, the way these people lose the weight has no
more to do with real life than does winning the lottery . The opportunities
afforded to the contestants on the show have nothing to do with the struggles
of those who are fighting this condition out in the trenches of real life. Real
life folks are watching this show and seeing the MASSIVE changes of the
contestants on the show and thinking that they should also be able to make
MASSIVE changes in their own lives. This leads to even greater, and needless,
frustration and guilt than they are already carrying around – AND I DON’T LIKE
IT!
Does comparing it
to, “winning the lottery” seem a little too dramatic for you? Well, consider
what each contestant is given to “aide” them in their pursuit to healthy bliss
and ask yourself if any one of these things would be possible
in your life. Here’s the short list:
1.
Each contestant is removed from all pressures
of real life.
a.
No job (like there is a soul on earth who could afford this).
b.
No spouse to work around (a spouse adds complication and
temptation to a weight loss goal).
c.
No kids to cook for, chase around, be available to.
d.
No old habits or stomping grounds to tempt you.
e.
No friends, neighbors or clergy to answer to or consort with.
2.
Each contestant is surrounded with a team of like-minded
individuals who are equally motivated, potentially compensated, and unbound
with life’s pressures.
3.
Each contestant is sequestered on a beautiful ranch which is
purpose-built with their success in mind.
a.
Gourmet kitchen
b.
State of the art fitness facilities (better than your local gym
– you bet!).
c.
Only healthy foods available.
d.
Spa’s, pools, whirlpools, steam, etc.
e.
All facilities needed to accomplish weight-loss and health at
their beck and call (my question is – do the contestants even have to clean
their own rooms?).
4.
Each contestant is surrounded by expert, professional personnel
whose entire purpose is to facilitate comfortable, effective and safe
weight-loss and health. Oh, and did I mention – at NO COST to themselves?
a.
World class trainers
b.
Expert medical doctors
c.
Professional massage therapists
d.
Nutritionists
e.
Motivational experts
f.
Mind docs
g.
Show producers
h.
Other education and health experts/professionals
5.
Each contestant is dangled a carrot of a $250,000.00 grand prize
if they win. Not to mention obvious endorsement deals, instant celebrity, etc.
6.
Each contestant has a camera pointed at them, throughout most of
this experience, with the expectation that millions of
people every week will see their great successes and failures. This ALONE would be motivation enough for millions of
people to do well and get healthy in order to save face and try not to
humiliate themselves or their friends and/or families.
7.
Each contestant is selected from one of, literally hundreds of
thousands of people to be on the show (isn’t this the very definition of a
lottery?).
I could go on, but you
get the point. What do you think? Would you, in your entire lifetime be
afforded any ONE of these advantages? How about all of them at once?
This isn’t the only reason
I HATE this show.
I HATE the way
they humiliate the contestants.
Producers: “Hey, I
got an idea – let’s make the 300 lb. lady weigh on a scale in tight, revealing
spandex in front of millions of people.” Never mind that she hasn’t even worn
that in front of her husband – not even in a secluded room, with the lights
off, in over dozen years.
I HATE the
exhibitionism and the way the show plays with the minds of the contestants
(i.e. “We will let you read a letter from your family, who you haven’t seen in
several months, if you simply EAT A DOUGHNUT while letting your team down and
facing elimination from the show – you decide.”).
I HATE the silly
plot twists and the dramatic build-ups coming up - “After these messages” -
which never pan out to be anything worth being worked up over.
I HATE
the “voting off the show” concept. C’mon! It’s been nearly 10 years since
Survivor voted the first person off prime time TV. Every reality based show (10
million, or so) ever produced since then has had some form of “voting off.” Can Hollywood really not come up with any other idea to progress the plot of a reality based TV show?
Sure. Every
contestant on the show knew what they were signing on for. They have it all
coming to them. It doesn’t mean I HATE the reality of it less.
More than that, I HATE
the notion that weight loss and health can be inspired by plastic, hollow,
nothingness, as per this show.
As I said before,
losing weight on this show is tantamount to winning the lottery. I believe
there is no substance to winning the lottery. Lottery winners haven’t earned the
money. They didn’t work for it. Their wealth and consequent life isn’t
something to be respected. It just isn’t. More often than not, it
screws up the life of the winner and the lives of those around him or her.
My prediction? Losing
weight on “the Biggest Loser” will screw up the lives of those on the show and
the lives of others around them.
Weight loss is something
to be earned, integrated, learned about and acted upon. This is to be done step
by step, principle by principle. It is a disease which is deeply engrained in
the psyche and physiology of the individual who suffers from it. Skip any of
the critical steps or principles of lasting weight loss along
the way and you may see short term success. But, as many addicts can attest,
you are a ticking time bomb. More often than not, it isn’t a question of “if”,
but “when” you will implode.
The “Biggest
Loser” isn’t helping Americans. It isn’t inspiring others to do for themselves.
It is simply an exploitative TV show created at the expense of those who are
very ill, to satisfy its own self-serving purpose(s) and the voyeuristic
purposes of some of those who watch.
