The Biggest Loser has pissed off many folks in the training industry and rants about the show can be found on many a training blog.   Why? Mainly because the trainers on the show are garbage.

I know, I know.  You’re about to say ” But, look at all the weight they’ve lost!  And Jillian Michaels is awesome, she’s so tough.”

Bob and Jillian, the  so-called trainers on the show could be more fairly referred to as  idiots or entertrainers.  Entertrainers or entrainment is a term I believe was first coined by Mark Verstegen of Core Performance.  I usually use the term entertrainer to describe the crappy trainer at your local gym who has a client tangled up in a TRX with one foot on a Bosu ball and two dumbells under 10lbs.  Entertrainers favor overly complicated, flashy moves and dislike science.

The Biggest Loser, however, takes entertrainment to another level.  Appearing on a reality TV show and literally being in the entertainment industry is no excuse for the horrible training done by Bob and Jillian.  Screaming and yelling at their clients however maybe encouraged to add drama and excitement for all you reality show addicts.  Either way it is disgusting and done at the cost of humiliating another person, thus making them the ultimate enterainers or best reason to throw your TV out the window.

Mike Boyle who has written his own blog post about the show says “I’m ashamed to be a “trainer.”  I don’t even own any army clothes and I have never screamed at a fat person in my life.”   One reason so many in the personal training field hate the show is because we are compassionate, we  got in to this field to help people.  Additionally we have read a book or two and understand that making people cry, fracture their hips, or humiliating them on tv is not help.  You might be thinking that the weight loss is a great help and it is saving their lives, I’d agree if it was accomplished in a healthier  manner.

Today’s post was intended to be a guest post, a  link to Coach Dos Remedios’s “The Biggest Losers…the viewers“.  But I got side-tracked with my own rant and other links, here is another.  Coach Dos does a great job with this post and includes some shocking comments from previous contestants of the show, it is the best post on the subject yet, read it  here.