The Biggest Loser - October 2013 - Discussion: There will be spoilers! (Page 2)

Minor rant - Biggest Loser branded veggies (fresh), ie carrots and tomatoes.  Why?  I suppose there are people who will buy carrots packaged in a BL bag over a store brand bag but really, why?  Do they truly think people who don't usually eat carrots will suddenly buy them since it has Biggest Loser plastered on the front?

Yes it is silly, but hey, if someone will actually eat it, then great! 

This season is ... blah. It's fine, but not exciting at all. It is nice they only have a red line now and no voting people off. So that's good.  

Well you know... they have to find a way to get Reuben back on!  

Otherwise, the Subway placement is annoying. Oh look... breakfast in bed... SUBWAY! Ha! What's new though? 

Just read the very first post...didn't realize they cut it down to an hour...or I would have tried to keep up!  Dang, probably too late in the season to try to catch up.

Oh well...maybe next season.

Eh, it's not too late. You know they do practically a whole recap at the start of each episode. AND they have been off the air for 2... or is it 3 weeks? 

And they are having a BL triathlon!

I'm looking forward to the tri as well. This two hour episode was looooong. Two weigh ins, and so many product placement commercials! Yogurt anyone? Didn't mind seeing Bobby come back.

I'm very excited/interested in the triathlon as well and also was pondering the possible distance.  I'm thinking it will probably be sprint or a modified, unique distance with a shorter swim and longer bike/run, maybe like sprint distance swim but Olympic distance bike/run.  Hoping they show Bobby learning to swim, and better yet, hoping Rachel teaches Bobby how to swim.

SUBWAY!  YOPLAIT!  BRITA!  PLANET FITNESS!  Use our products!  No Jennie Lee turkey spots this year so far.

I LOL'ed when Bobby said, "they have had a whole WEEK to train!" 

Looks like their marketing is working!  

The 2-hour episode was long. I have realized though that when it is only 1 hour I don't even know who some people are! They showed one lady (the blond) on the show weighing in and I thought "who is she?" Ha! 

Otherwise, I wish they would pick contestants who didn't have 200+ pounds to lose. I want to be wow'ed when someone loses 100 lbs. Not think "they still look HUGE!" 

And this week they didn't disappoint - Jennie-O (not Lee as I mis-stated previously) turkey product pitch! (<--sarcasm)  Still no specific tri training showing up that I've seen other than spin bike riding.  Hmm, now I'm wondering if they will have a gym-based tri: swim in the pool, then do the spin bike and treadmill for bike and run.  I hope not.

Looks like the triathlon will be on next week's show on 1/28 and I must say the mile swim surprises me:

My best take-away this week was that Lolo is on the US bobsled team!!!!!!

I often think the same thing when I see bad form, especially with the burpees as you mentioned.  Sometimes I wonder if it is because the contestants are still on the larger side and it's not as easy to do the exercises but not all of them have that 'excuse' in my mind.

I was yelling at the TV... "THOSE ARE NOT BURPEES!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I remember in a prior season one of the contestants talking about how many burpees Bob makes them do. Well if they look like that they're not Burpees!

OK, so the triathlon episode will be next week, 1/28.  Why have we seen zero swim training, especially from Bobby, nor any other tri specific workouts?  I guess I shouldn't gripe since I don't recall them showing much of marathon training sessions, either, but still I thought they'd show something.  Swimming a mile to a newbie or inexperienced or out of practice swimmer is no joke.  I wonder if this is foreshadowing of a new venture for the Biggest Loser brand - they already have 5Ks and marathons, perhaps they will be delving into triathlon as well?

Could be. Jillian did a tri last summer. I wonder if she did because BL was starting or if BL got the idea from her. I hope they show a lot of tri footage, probly not though. More psycho-babble no doubt. I liked the makeovers. These seemed more dramatic than prior seasons.