Triathlon on The Biggest Loser Tuesday? (Page 3)

I was thinking that they were messing up laps with lengths,  25 meters * 40 lengths = 1k. 

And WTF was the deal with using metrics, my wife kept on asking me, "how far it that"!

I knew as soon as the swim started who was going to win the deal, she had good form on her strokes. 

Still, I am glad it was almost a real full race, distance wise. The run was a little short, the swim a little long, lack of T's, but think about how hard some of us have had to work to do our first sprint ri!  They are awesome.

Amy did look adorable, and I hope she is not the twit the show made her out to be. I am hoping they just edited it that way for drama's sake.

Kae rocks. the only one who didn;t eat the donuts! 

Totally agree that the tri should have been based on time, but judging from how Hollie totally smoked them in the pool, it probably would not have made much difference.

I was happy to see Amy go.  I hated Neil after that gaining 17lbs stunt, but I have started to like him a bit more now. 

I don't think "B" has a chance to last much longer with that annoying trainer.  Jillian ROCKS.  I am sure she would so make me cry during a workout!

They did talk about it one season and do a before/after dunk and considered it in the final weigh in.  And I am pretty sure they still definitely dunk the contestants to get BF% when they initially show up.

The problem is that they had to pick SOME way to measure weightloss that made it as fair as possible.  The first season they JUST went by pounds lost and of course the chicks were not going to do as well.  But it's impractical on TV to dunk them for every weigh in.  So they compromised at percentage of weight lost.

I kind of usually think it's funny how the girls always say they want to be the first female biggest loser.  But in reality, the person who will be the biggest loser is practically chosen from the get-go when you base it on percentage of weight lost.  I mean, a 400 lb guy with small bones is going to be able to lose a larger percentage of his weight than a 250 lb girl with large bones.  Okay, so if you can stack the people in the final three you could theoretically win.  But in the end, if you figure out how much weight each of those people could REALLY lose?  There are some people that don't have any chance of winning the game.

Did any of that make sense to anybody but me?

I watched last night for the first time and thought the tri was unfair, the one girl was far enough ahead in the run and bike she probably would have won the whole thing.

I am glad after watching this that I normally swim on Tuesday nights.

I agree with many points here!

I think Kae would have had a better chance to win if they had either done the events back to back or taken the total time.  It's a shame.  She's my favorite player.  I was actually hoping Hollie wouldn't make it to the final round because they did mention she was a swimmer and I wanted Kae to win!

I was glad to see Amy go too.  She was a total whiner.  I realize that it is edited/dramatized to make it look that way...but they had to have SOMETHING to work with to make her look that bad.  I'm glad she did well at home.

I'm always excited when the before pictures start coming out.  They don't do it until you can really see a big difference.  It's kind of a benchmark for the show.  It's getting down to the wire when the before pictures appear!

I would love to be trained by Jillian OR Bob.  But I was also thinking that our very own Trixie would make an awesome Biggest Loser trainer.

"He's not gay, just nice." 

That is classic! 

I did a happy dance when Amy got voted off, too.  And WOW, she did really well at home!  Her hubby is into fitness so it looks like she got the encouragement she needed to keep going.

Amy was annoying and very whiney but I will say that I don't think I could leave my kids for that long.  I think part of her percieved "whiney-ness" (yes, that's a word) was from missing her girls.  And they're little!  It's not like she left teenagers at home.

The donut part made me want donuts. But I knew Kae would resist. She's strong like that. For those who haven't seen it since the beginning, she was in the military- can't remember which branch. Navy I think.

Kim was the red team's personal trainer. I really didn't care for her. Amy left her team because when they were discussing who they were going to vote off one week, Kim basically told them that Amy was the logical choice. Ouch. Amy didn't cotton to that. And she was kind of whiney and a bit of a crybaby, but she seemed to really work hard with Jillian. I think she felt like she was by herself- not really fitting in with any team.

Neil has to go. He's the one who put on 17 lbs in one week by drinking over 2 gallons of water before weigh in. Cheater cheater pumpkin eater....

I'd love to see Kae win it. She for the most part just sticks to herself, working hard, and tries to stay out of all the drama going on. But I don't think she has enough weight left to lose to be able to win it. It's usually one of the heavier men.

Hollie's stroke was pretty good, but she was killing me with the breast stroke! And I really wanted them to use their cumulative times rather than who won the swim.

Kudos to Bill for hitting the 100 lb mark. IN 10 WEEKS. WOW.

I like Bill too. I would like to be friends with him. And Julie too.  And Kae.  Kae didn;t play a few weeks ago when they were playing poker and had to eat junk food as bets. She's great.

freaking Neil and Amy. ugh. 

I watched this show one time and it was the last time......

It was the episode during "green week" where they didn't use any power.  Tell me.... how is it better to run inside, pushing the belt on a tredmill then just going outside and running in the fresh air? 

Isn't the point of the show to get these people into healthy lifestyles and enjoy being active?  If all my initial running was on a tredmill, and all my initial cycling was on an exercise bike....I'd hate both sports with a passion.  Heck yea I'd walk away and go back to my old habits. 

Jillian is the trainer for me as well - I like that aggressive style.  I was kind of disappointed that she doesn't seem to have any other gear besides what you see on the show, though.  I saw her on a talk show "competing" with a couple of other weight loss gurus (one of them was that guy from Celebrity Fit Club - not the drill sgt./ trainer - the younger [nicer] doctor) on whose approach was the most effective.  They got some overweight folks for each guru, sent them away for a few weeks and then had the recap.  When they showed the footage it was so clear that Jillian was alienating the two women she was trying to help and that they were getting angry and resentful.  At the end the folks coached by the Celebrity Fit Club guy lost the most weight and Jillian was really pissy about it - kind of defensive.  She then blamed the *women* for not working hard enough!  On TV!  It was clear that she viewed it as her loss personally and was trying to shift blame to the women - awkward and embarrassing and very poor form.  The women already felt bad being the ones who lost the least weight (their before and after shots, usually dramatic, looked pretty much the same) and then Jillian sort of crapped on them unnecessarily to save her own ego.  Like I said,  her training approach suits my style, but I was disappointed that she didn't seem to realize that different people require different techniques and that she would be so small and graceless about "losing".

Several points:

1.  They do go outside and run and hike and all that jazz.  If you watched the show every week you would know that.

2.  If you REALLY want to lose weight you do need to do some interval-type stuff on things like treadmills.  Could you do it on a track?  Yeah...but not if you've never been a runner and not if you want to push yourself REALLY hard.  So they are using all those machines for several reasons: a. Accelerate weight loss, b. So the trainers can train multiple people at once c. Cameramen can video them more easily.

3.  As for the treadmill bit during green week, she was just showing him the workout he could do inside if he had to despite not having electricity.  It was more of a weight training/resistance thing than running.