Who does Biggest Loser think they are kidding? (Read 1060 times)

I dont understand why this is so hard to believe. She obviously wasnt running a 14mm, it was def. 14mph because she was truckin it when she stepped on!!! And they only do it for 20 sec intervals. It looked so hard for her to do because it WAS hard! I have been wanting to give this a whirl on my TM just once, but I keep forgetting. I dont even know how fast it would top out at. The only thing I dont believe about that show is that those people dont wind up with more injuries than they usually do. They way they exert and push themselves yiou would surely think they would all end up with some kind of problem. And way more debilitating ones at that.

I dont understand why this is so hard to believe. She obviously wasnt running a 14mm, it was def. 14mph because she was truckin it when she stepped on!!! And they only do it for 20 sec intervals. It looked so hard for her to do because it WAS hard!

Plopping someone who isn't used to sprinting onto a fast-moving treadmill is stupid, dangerous, and serves no useful purpose from a standpoint of weight loss. Like I said earlier, 14mph is a 64-second quarter, and a 32-second 200m. That's sprinting for most people.

It would probably throw me through the wall.

Now that would make for some good tv.

If you put a gun to my head and said "do a 64-second quarter or your life is over", I'm not sure if I could do it.

Yeah, this doesn't quite sound right. Not only can I not come close to a 64 second 400m (or a 32 second 200m for that matter), I don't think I could hold that pace for 20 seconds. Maybe 10 seconds. Barely. And you're telling me they put a chubby non-runner on a treadmill and they managed to do it? Don't think so. Do treadmills even go to 14 miles per hour? Mine goes to 10. I've seen 12. Never higher. Would people really want to be running almost 4 minute mile pace (4:16) on a treadmill anyway? One slip and you're dead. I'd think the company's legal department would nix that quick. I suppose they have them for the elites. If it wasn't minutes per mile, maybe it was kilometers per hour. Hopefully Tanya will soon solve the mystery. So she can sleep.

Anybody got a video of this treadmill event?

Whoever these "Brittney" and "Jillian" people are, I'm envisioning them in my nightmares tonight. Thanks.

Think of it this way. 14mph is a 64-second quarter, and a 32-second 200m. Pretty damn fast, esp for anyone on that show.

I have yet to run 400 consecutive meters faster than 60 seconds. The last time I competed in a 400m race was my sophomore year of high school on a 100m track that literally went around a basketball court and had the same surface. I was only about 5'2" at the time, and with such a small track I couldn't get around a guy that was about 6' tall. Every time I'd get next to him on a straight we'd reach a turn. I ran 60 point exactly even with all the wasted time and energy of trying to pass that huge guy. I tried running sub-60 in college workouts a few times, and had a friend who could run in the high 40s pace me at an easy (for him) 58 seconds, but since those were always midway to late through ladder workouts I never did better than 61 or 62 seconds. That being said, I have run 20x400m and 28x400m workouts in the low 70/high 60 second range with the last 4-8 in the low/mid 60s. That has to count for something right?

The stupid thing is when she has them stand on the edges of the TM, she starts it up at "14" and they are expected to jump on and run. Stupid dangerous in terms of injury with really zero fitness benefit vs just pumping up a normal interval.

It makes perfect sense to me. A Presumably Fat Person + Network Television + Jumping on Full Speed Treadmill = Potential for Darwinism Entertainment for the masses! And when somebody does get thrown or does tear a muscle, they can all cry and eat ice cream for the last 30 minutes of the show, come onto the next show with an extra 20 pounds, and then lose 40 pounds between that show and the one after it!