Jillian Michaels takes on triathlon... and gets schooled (Page 3)

I did think you were joking around since you put real athletes in quotes.  I think a previous poster hit the nail on the head about specificity training.  It's not like you can throw a triathlete on a soccer field, football field, etc.  We all know those folks are also real athletes.

Gee....thanks.... I'm pretty sure I would have never googled something that dumb on my own.   I'm just never going to understand "celebrity gossip"......  now get off my lawn.

This is VBT.. Most of them are veteran beginner triathletes.  There is a huge difference. 

To qualify for bashing, you need to

A.  Be a "coach" on a TV show about losing weight that's obnoxiously littered with product placement ads and unrealistic achievements.

B.  Make a best-sellers list several times with regurgitated diet information published in a shiny covered hard back book with a picture of you in a tight sports bra showing off your abs.

C.  Over-market yourself through fitness apparatuses, diet food products, etc., all with pictures of your aforementioned abs.

D.  Take the contestants on the show you're on and make them run a marathon with no advance warning or race specific training.

This too.  I abused a lot of gym rats in jiu-jitsu simply because I was in fight shape and they were in gym shape.  It was fun watching them be absolutely gassed 90 seconds into a round and then being able to do anything I wanted.

You did see where many of us said that there is no doubt she is fit?  And that given just a short amount of time doing sport specific training (s/b/r) that she would likely be quite good if not competitive?  And that would any of us try to do what she did we would likely have just as hard of a problem doing her fitness regime as we have at ours, right?

And I think much of the perceived bashing was a trend, not too long ago, where cross fit individuals inferred that they would easily be able to do a tri and possibly be competitive.  Not that she was saying it, but there is a bit of self satisfaction when someone like this attemps a tri without, apparently, much sport specific training and has such a hard time at it.

Originally posted by strykergt there are Celeb athletes in the link: below who were not bashed: http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/triathlon/celebrity-triathletesreference celebs Triathlon splits: http://www.nauticamalibutri.com/results/2009/Classic%20Distance%20R... https://www.nauticamalibutri.com/results/2008/Classic%20Celebrity%20...

For comparisons, other notable celebrities in the same finishing time frames:

Dushku, Eliza 02:22:31.2

Lopez, Jennifer  02:23:38.8

Hatcher, Teri 2:06:50

Lopez, Mario 2:03:17.4

She's still BOP in the Celebrity Group.

Somewhat surprised big muscley A.C Slater has a 2hr plus time. He almost got chicked by a Desparate Housewife :p

Andy Baldwin has a 1:30 time.   

It might be "humorous" to you but that's how a lot of us, myself included, started. "haha".

I'll use my failure yesterday to reiterate the sport specificity issue.  I could probably go out RIGHT NOW, after a year off of training and beat her times.  I still do enough S/B/R to keep up.

BUT, I did a gym type crossfit/body pump/insanity type thing at home and I was seriously hurting after 10 minutes.  I don't have the upper body strength with my tri training.