The Biggest Loser

This week was the Biggest Loser season 10 Finale. I like to watch the show just to get motivated when I see them working hard and getting those great results. However the show has some good things, but also some bad things. Here is a link of a really good article on the show LINK

Here is a short summary of what it says:

BIGGEST LOSER PROS

• The Power of Accountability

• The Spirit of Competition

• The drive of emotions

• Hope and inspiration

• The reality of hard work

BIGGEST LOSER CONS

• The Biggest Loser is judged on weight loss, not body composition.

• Rapid weight loss competition encourages physically dangerous practices

• The Biggest Loser pushes overtraining to the point of high injury risk

• The Biggest Loser has no relevance to real world situations

• The Biggest Loser trainers are walking a fine line between tough love and abuse

• The Biggest Loser encourages unrealistic weight loss expectations

• The Biggest Loser does not teach real-world lifestyle strategies

• The Biggest Loser doesn’t focus on lifelong maintenance

• “The Biggest Loser”: Much worse than a clever name

Of course the article was written a couple of seasons ago, so now they are trying to fix some of the downside (specially after watching how past winners gain their weight back or struggle to stay in shape). I still like to watch the show and think it does a good job in motivating people and giving them hope, but they still need to fix a couple of things to improve.