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TV Trainer Watch Dog Blog
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 ...
TV Trainer Watch Dog Blog #18: Finally, a Finale
- By JonathanRoss · Posted May 13, 2009
- 14 replies
- The finale of the Biggest Loser: Couples was an hour of real content stretched out to three long hours. Helen won, Jerry was the true winner, and the trainers showed us once again why they need professional ...
TV Trainer Watch Dog Blog #17: From Biggest Loser to Biggest Gainer?
- By JonathanRoss · Posted May 7, 2009
- 6 replies
- On the Biggest Loser: Couples this week, it's time to run a marathon - the event that killed its founder. In 490 BC, according to legend, a messenger ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to deliver news ...
TV Trainer Watch Dog Blog #16: To Run the Impossible Sprint
- By JonathanRoss · Posted April 22, 2009
- 6 replies
- In this week's Biggest Loser: Couples, contestants ran a sprint that isn't possible, and we saw the most graceful exit of a contestant in the show's history. During one of the workouts, a group of contestants ...
TV Trainer Watch Dog Blog #15: Finally, a Stress Fracture!
- By JonathanRoss · Posted April 16, 2009
- 5 replies
- In this week's "Biggest Loser: Couples", the inevitable happened. A contestant suffered a stress fracture. A stress fracture is from repetitive stress that is done over and over and over and over again ...
TV Trainer Watchdog #14: Clueless Contestants
- By JonathanRoss · Posted April 3, 2009
- 8 replies
- This week's Biggest Loser: Couples provided an interesting story development that proved very timely given what I wrote about in TV Trainer Watchdog #13. My main point was that, if you have a trainer ...
TV Trainer Watchdog #13: Pick a Side...not that it matters
- By JonathanRoss · Posted March 28, 2009
- 4 replies
- Last week's Biggest Loser: Couples (3/24/09) put the trainers and contestants in an uncomfortable position. They lined everyone up and all the contestants had to choose their trainer and comment on how ...
Cut the Cleansing/Detox Crap
- By JonathanRoss · Posted March 12, 2009
- 23 replies
- I've been reading the many posts/questions about detox and cleansing AND have seen enough marketing for these programs from fitness and health people that should know better... so it's time to take out ...
TV Trainer Watchdog #12: Nobody Gets It
- By JonathanRoss · Posted February 25, 2009
- 0 replies
- If you watched Biggest Loser: Couples (2/24/09) you may have gotten cavities just from watching. It was one of the most over-the-top, melodramatic, syrupy episodes you'll ever see. Too bad crying isn't ...