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TV Trainer Watch Dog Blog

TV Trainer Watchdog: the Biggest Biggest Loser Misconceptions

By JonathanRoss · Posted February 5, 2010
2 replies
After getting to know Erik Chopin, season 3 winner of The Biggest Loser, and his wife Michele, watching countless episodes of the show, answering questions from a lot of people about the show, and reading ...

TV Trainer Watchdog: It just keeps getting fatter

By JonathanRoss · Posted January 16, 2010
5 replies
Another season of the Biggest Loser is underway. And they keep bringing us the fattest, oldest, out-of-shape-est, people they can find and work them nearly to death on day one. (One wonders what is going ...

More Confessions: What Erik Chopin Can Tell Anyone Struggling With Obesity

By JonathanRoss · Posted January 6, 2010
2 replies
Erik Chopin is the season 3 winner of "The Biggest Loser" and since returning home, has regained a lot of the weight in the intervening years. He's recommitted to reclaiming his health, and his journey ...

More Confessions: Inside the mind of a regaining Biggest Loser Winner

By JonathanRoss · Posted January 3, 2010
1 reply
Erik is the season 3 winner of "The Biggest Loser" and since returning home, has regained a lot of the weight in the intervening years. He's recommitted to reclaiming his health, and his journey to do ...

More Confessions: What Erik Thought When Oprah Confessed

By JonathanRoss · Posted January 2, 2010
0 replies
I recently asked Erik Chopin what he thought when he heard Oprah confess her struggles with weight loss. Erik is the season 3 winner of "The Biggest Loser" and since returning home, has regained a lot ...

Must-See TV: Confessions of a Reality Show Loser

By JonathanRoss · Posted December 28, 2009
0 replies
"Confessions of a Reality Show Loser" debuts on Discovery Health on Jan. 6, 2010 at 9 PM (E/P) There's never been a more must-see TV show. Erik Chopin - best known as season No. 3's winner of NBC's "Biggest ...

TV Trainer Watchdog: The Cult of Marathons

By JonathanRoss · Posted December 5, 2009
4 replies
Finally, this week the Biggest Loser became a reality show. After months of non-reality fitness, the contestants finally get some reality in returning home for 60 days of fitting fitness into their real ...

TV Trainer Watchdog: Trainer No-No's & Trainer Yes-Yes'

By JonathanRoss · Posted November 26, 2009
3 replies
The trainers on this week's Biggest Loser showed us some things that illustrate the good and the bad side of trainers. I've conveniently listed them for you as Trainer No-No's and Trainer Yes-Yes'. Trainer ...

TV Trainer Watchdog: Rudy's Doing Just Fine!

By JonathanRoss · Posted November 17, 2009
6 replies
This week's Biggest Loser "makeover" episode presented some interesting contradictions: (1) Promotions on "going green" were shown amid lots of waste evident in a challenge. (2) The trainers mistakenly ...

TV Trainer Watchdog: Danny vs. Daddy

By JonathanRoss · Posted November 13, 2009
8 replies
This week's Biggest Loser struck a personal chord with me. During one segment, Danny, the 39 year-old contestant who arrived on campus weighing 427 pounds, explored some of the reasons why he got to such ...

TV Trainer Watchdog: Epidemic of HomeBesity

By JonathanRoss · Posted October 21, 2009
12 replies
This week's Biggest Loser showed us what happens when contestants go home. They return to tearful reunions with families that love them. Some that love them enough to change their lifestyle and others ...

TV Trainer Watchdog: Why Trainers Don't Matter

By JonathanRoss · Posted October 14, 2009
12 replies
This week's Biggest Loser showed us why the trainers they have on the show don't really matter all that much. Every season has one episode where the teams get mixed up and many players have to switch ...

TV Trainer Watchdog: Loving to Eat...and Rhabdomyolysis

By JonathanRoss · Posted October 9, 2009
7 replies
The best part of this week's Biggest Loser episode was the very end when we are caught up with the person voted off the show this week. Julio mentioned that he loves to eat, but he's learned to eat more ...

TV Trainer Watchog: Bonus Posting!

By JonathanRoss · Posted October 5, 2009
14 replies
I've gotten a number of questions regarding how Tracey lost so much weight in week 2 so I'm making a bonus post in response to last week's episode. The short answer is that we don't really know. We didn't ...

TV Trainer Watchdog - I'm Starting to Like Jillian

By JonathanRoss · Posted September 30, 2009
14 replies
This week's Biggest Loser was like a series of great one-liners. And as I watched it, I started liking Jillian more. Crazy, I know. Here's what she said to win me over - at least this week: "You don't ...

TV Trainer Watchdog - Putting the Why in Fitness

By JonathanRoss · Posted September 24, 2009
7 replies
It was the best of shows, it was worst of shows. In this week's Biggest Loser, you saw a great example of how to truly motivate yourself for lasting fitness, and some bad nutrition advice. First, the ...

TV Trainer Watchdog - If You Stop Are You a Quitter?

By JonathanRoss · Posted September 17, 2009
17 replies
Season 8 of The Biggest Loser started with a bang this week. The show started in a very creative and clever fashion with this season's contestants starting one mile from the finish line where the last ...

TV Trainer Watchdog - Biggest Loser returns...so does the Watchdog!

By JonathanRoss · Posted September 16, 2009
0 replies
Summer is almost over, the Biggest Loser is returning, and that means the return of the TV Trainer Watchdog - your filter for credible interpretation of the events shown on fitness reality shows. As a ...

Myths of Pregnancy and Fitness

By JonathanRoss · Posted June 8, 2009
7 replies
It's funny how often I hear old myths of fitness and pregnancy that never seem to go away. Some of them come from well meaning grandmothers-to-be and mothers-in-law who really shouldn't be giving fitness ...

For Once, the Fitness Expert needs YOUR Help

By JonathanRoss · Posted May 29, 2009
3 replies
Yes, it's true. I need help from the online community. Anyone who reads anything I write knows why - I have an all-consuming drive to share information that makes your life the best it can be by helping ...

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