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Biggest Loser Back in January

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Post date December 5, 2012
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Biggest Loser Season 14 is back on In January with two back to back episodes on January 6th and 7th. And there are a bunch of changes with Jillian Micheals coming back and heavyweight kids on the show this time. I am sure the show will make people think about how they are feeding kids and what they are doing to themselves as well.

New mother Jillian Michaels is back, ready to whip contestants into shape with her tough-as-nails, no nonsense approach, alongside returning trainers and top fitness experts Bob Harper and Dolvett Quince. Alison Sweeney hosts the series.

This season’s 15 contestants will be divided into three teams — supervised by trainers Harper, Michaels and Quince. Each trainer and team of five adults will be paired with one child participant who will compete with and contribute to their respective teams.

This Years Biggest Loser Contestants

The adult contestants for season 14 of “The Biggest Loser” will include Lisa Rambo, a high school special education assistant and mother of four who wants to be a healthy role model for her children, and hopes to one day open a special needs gym in her community to help her overweight students; 21-year-old Jackson Carter, the show’s first openly gay contestant who was bullied both for his weight and his sexuality after coming out at age 14, and now works as a volunteer coordinator for an LGBT youth outreach center, and Joe Ostaszewski, a former high school and college football player who continued to eat like an active football player long after his athletic career was over.

Also competing this season will be 47-year-old attorney, law firm owner and mother of two Gina McDonald, who is very accomplished in her professional life, but has not been able to get control of her lifelong struggle with weight; 51-year-old police officer David Jones, who at 307 pounds is struggling to keep up with the physical demands of his job, and college professor and communications consultant Michael Dorsey, the heaviest contestant this season at 444 pounds, who wants to be a healthy role model for his young son and says. “Losing weight just seems like that impossible mountain that I cannot overcome.”’

Working closely with the children this season will be Dr. Joanna Dolgoff, a childhood obesity expert and pediatrician whose book “Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right” features the child-friendly healthy eating plan the kids will follow. Along with the trainers and the “Biggest Loser” medical staff, the kids will follow an age-appropriate program that will help them get healthy, achieve their personal goals and transform their lives during the course of the season.

Biggest Loser Kids this season

Lindsay Bravo (eighth grade), 13, Fillmore, California. Who loved being a cheerleader for two years but gave it up when others started teasing her about her weight, and hopes that by going on the show, she can inspire others to change their lives and get healthy.
Sanjana “Sunny” Chandrasekar (11^th grade), 16, Rochester, New York. Who juggles Advanced Placement classes and extracurricular activities like singing and tennis, and says that being overweight takes away from her self-confidence and affects every aspect of her life;
Noah “Biingo” Gray (eighth grade), 13, New Windsor, Maryland. Who aspires to be a professional baseball player and describes himself as a “skinny kid trying to get out of a fat teenager’s body”;

Biggest Loser Adults this season

Dannielle “Danni” Allen (Advertising account coordinator), 26, Wheeling, Illinois
Jackson Carter (Volunteer coordinator for LGBT resource center and movie theater assistant manager), 21, Layton, Utah
Nicole “Nikki” Davis (Make-up artist), 26, Chatsworth, California
Michael Dorsey (College professor and communications consultant), 34, Baltimore, Maryland
Pamela Geil (Executive assistant), 43, New York, New York
David Jones (Police officer), 51, Kiefer, Oklahoma
Cate Laughlin (Student), 28, Ransomville, New York
Gina McDonald (Attorney and law firm owner), 47, Hoover, Alabama
Nate Montgomery (Financial advisor), 25, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Francelina Morillo (Student and store manager), 25, Albany, New York
Jeff Nichols (Pharmaceutical representative), 24, Monroe, Michigan
Joe Ostaszewski (Senior sales executive), 43, Willston, Florida
Thomas “TC” Pool (Purchasing manager), 31, Albany, Oregon
Lisa Rambo (High school special education assistant), 54, Houlton, Wisconsin
Alexandra “Alex” Reid (Legal assistant), 24, Carrolton, Texas

I am again excited about watching the show this year and the kids will be a great added twist to the show. I have to wonder how they will change the show up this season to stop it from getting stale like it has started to get in the last few years.

Will you be watching next month when Biggest Loser comes back to TV?

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Hot Bod in a Box Kick Butt With 50 Exercises from TVs Toughest Trainer

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Post date May 17, 2012
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Hot Bod in a Box book – Kick Butt With 50 Exercises from TVs Toughest Trainer, now redesigned in full color, portable flash-cards you can take to the gym, are directly from Jillians bestselling book Making the Cut.

Channel your inner Jillian and use her exercises and workout circuits to push you towards your fitness goals and to be bathing suit ready any time of the year.

In Jillian Michaels books, called Hot Bod In A Box – Kick Butt With 50 Exercises from TVs Toughest Trainer, you will learn how to maximize your time and workouts, with her tough, no-nonsense approach to fitness. Hot Bod in a Box book – Kick Butt with 50 Exercises from TVs Toughest Trainer makes you wonder what if TV’s number one exercise coach and fitness expert was my gym buddy?

Imagine Jillian there with you counting out your sit-ups and pushing you toward your goals. With Jillian Michaels books Hot Bod In a Box, you get Jillian’s tough and energetic approach to fitness in a deck filled with challenging exercises and training tips you can mix and match for a customized work out.

The exercises and workout circuits are pulled from Jillian’s bestselling book Making the Cut, now redesigned in full color, portable flash cards you can take to the gym. Buy Michaels’ Hot Bod in a Box book – Kick Butt with 50 Exercises from TVs Toughest Trainer, pulled from the pages of her bestselling “Making the Cut,” for a redesigned, full-color set of portable flash cards you can conveniently tote back and forth from your gym to your home gym.

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Jack Lalanne Dead at 96

Jack Lalanne

Jack Lalanne, one of the originators of the fitness movement has died but left a fantastic legacy to help people to look after their health and concentrate on their fitness as one of the cornerstones of a great life.

Here is a great article from the Globe and mail today talking about Jack Lalanne and what he taught and meant to those in the fitness community.

Jack LaLanne, who died on Sunday at age 96, was regarded as the father of the modern fitness movement. Dressed in snug jumpsuits, the television fixture preached a balance of exercise and healthy diet and inspired millions. The Post spoke to fitness gurus about the top lessons learned from LaLanne’s legacy.

What was the Jack Lalanne Legacy?

1. There is no excuse for not exercising. Long before Nike told everyone to “just do it,” LaLanne was relentless in his pitches, using a drill sergeant’s bark and cadence. “Jack inspired the world with his no-nonsense approach to exercise,” says Maureen Hagan, fitness instructor and VP of operations at GoodLife Fitness Canada. “Many of us will recall Jack showing his TV viewers how to exercise in the kitchen, using a chair and lifting soup cans as dumbbells. His ‘no excuse, just do it’ attitude inspired the world to at least try exercise.”

2. Weight training is a key component of a fitness regimen. “He popularized the whole notion of fitness before we recognized it as a crisis situation,” says Christa Costas-Bradstreet, physical activity specialist at ParticipAction, the national not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting active living. When LaLanne first began recommending weights in the 1930s, he said that physicians opposed his advice, warning it would cause heart attacks and lower sex drives. “People thought I was a charlatan and a nut,” LaLanne said in a posting on his website. “Time has proven that what I was doing was scientifically correct — starting with a healthy diet followed by systematic exercise, and today everyone knows it.”

3. Fitness is for everyone. “He taught that physical activity was something for all ages, irrespective of socio-economic status and ability,” Costas-Bradstreet says. LaLanne invited women into his health clubs, and also encouraged the elderly and the disabled to exercise. “I share the great passion for bringing women into the gym environment that Jack LaLanne pioneered,” says Craig Ramsay, author of Anatomy of Exercise and trainer on Bravo’s Thintervention.

4. Practise what you preach. When LaLanne was 42, he did a record 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes. When he was 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman’s Wharf — while handcuffed, shackled and towing a boat. Late in life, he continued to rise at 4 or 5 a.m. for two-hour workouts. “He himself was a role model,” Costas-Bradstreet says. “Only 7% of Canadian children and youth are meeting Canada’s physical activity guidelines and 15% of adults. We absolutely need role models, particularly for kids.”