Sweet Lady Who Yells at Fat People is Mad at L.A. Times
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Jillian Michaels, who reality-TV watchers know from The Biggest Loser and Losing It with Jillian, says the Los Angeles Times has defamed her.
A recent op-ed piece in the Times questioned the celebrity fitness trainer’s credentials, ripped her bell-kettle fitness video for lousy technique, and said her repeated claim that a person can lose five pounds a week is dangerous and unrealistic.
In response, Michaels has told Us Magazine:
- “I currently own two certifications, one of which doesn’t expire.”
- Her training programs are developed with other experts.
- In defence of the five-pounds-a-week claim … not a word that I can see.
The Times article, by James Fell, declared her “an actress playing the role of a fitness trainer.” To which Michaels said: “Shame on the Los Angeles Times.” She also said she might sue.
Michaels, known for a rather in-your-face way of getting people to give a little more in the gym, told Us she has been a trainer for 19 years, since the age of 17.
That makes one question the worth and validity of her trainer credentials. Unless she completed her high school education early, she began working as a trainer before she could get any meaningful post-secondary education in the field.
Based solely on the Times piece and her reaction to it, I’ll have to side with the newspaper and Mr. Fell.
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Boy, this chick got some folks going. Personally, I really don’t like this little bitch mainly because I don’t like loud mouth fitness guru’s. Her and the Tony Little types just bug the crap out of me like someone screaming at me is going to make work harder or something. Oh, did I mention what 12 weeks at Parris Island, South Carolina can do for your feelings about being yelled at by people. I really got to hate that. I agree with Stimpson and MH both in regard to the rapidity of weight loss. It isn’t so much how many pounds you lose it is the percentage of weight you lose and whether or not you are counting water loss.
4D hates fat Muslims in particular.
I’m with Stimpson on this Jillian chick. I find her to be an insufferable pain in the ass. I’d do 100 pushups if she promised to go away.
What’s the problem? You have to shout at fat people as being fat equates to a disability, and disabled people are clearly so stupid you have to shout at them for them to hear you – or even better, you have to talk to their carer instead so the carer can translate what you are saying to the stupid mong in the wheelchair….
Is it so hard to fathom? You are fat therefore you are stupid.
Being…er…slightly rotund myself…I must admit to being, at least halfway stupid (shut up before you say anything) and clearly, as a rotund personage I am suffering from fatness and, therefore, deafness….as night follows day apparently…
According to the logic of Jillian Michaels I am a fat mong in a wheelchair who is both deaf and stupid.
Well…1 out of 5 could be worse….
Incidentally…the lovely Jillian should understand, being fat, stupid, possibly wheelchair bound mongs we would give her the shag of her life.
You could be grateful one day babe….my mobile is 0795 etc…;-)
If the role of a trainer is to get the trainee to push themselves and complete their program (which was probably developed by one of the better qualified experts) then I have no doubt that an attractive woman will succeed will others might fail. She is basically a cheerleader, who just makes certain they keep proper form and check their heart rates. This is easier to learn than it looks. It is hard to check your own form when you are concentrating on just making it through a set, and these people are not used to exercise anyway.
I started weight training at 15 and at 19 was certified to teach aerobics. At 17 I informally encouraged more than a few military guys to push themselves enough to get into the finals for bodybuilding.
Because I posses the knowledge, but not the will, I can feel not so bad berating myself for being a chronic fatass nowadays.
Good point MH as to the basics.I trained my youngest since she was 13 on weights and taught her to box as well. In turn she’s learned enough to train some of her friends. Basic form can be taught, burning off glycogen thru weights then following with cardio to burn fat,pre-exhaust,etc-but then again this is with healthy young people (other than the old Dad).
You’re smart not to take the health advice of good-looking celebrities. Us good-looking non celebrities are very trustworthy though man.
We can’t afford their strict botox regimens anyway… so much the better for us.
I suppose Jillian might be a fraud, (I just don’t trust good looking people as a general rule when it comes to advice on health), but my trainer at the Sunset Park Gym in Brooklyn in the early 1990s never graduated from high school. He was just a very experienced athlete who’d been boxing since age 12. He taught me great form, technique and could customize a nutrition and exercise regimen for anyone…
Sadly as of this writing, I could use a little more of his yelling and berrating. I am wayyyy out of shape.
-SJ
Your Brooklyn trainer aside, I think there’s a contradiction between someone saying her trainer credentials are sterling AND she’s been a trainer since 17.
-And that’s why I “suppose she might be a fraud…”
But again, just to play devil’s advocate: I’m suggesting her alleged lying about the legitimacy/value/integrity of her credentials may actually have no bearing on whether she’s a good trainer or not, especially if she happens to not be lying about having done it as long as she has (as in the case of my boxing coach’s “credentials.”) If she were ‘certified’ to the solid degree that she claims to be she could, conversely, still be bad it/ or unqualified to do it. While I believe mightily in standards and licensing and regulation, being certified to train and advise people on fitness here in the US (outside of federally regulated school institutions) is a wildly regional thing state to state, and it’s not like being cerified as an RN or a physical therapist, -which I think it should, since you can kill someone with diet and exercise programs: it just isn’t regulated as tightly unfortunately.
If she’s lying about her certifications, she’s doing whatever ‘real’ experience she may have a disservice… Or she may just suck at it, she’s on TV after all.
-SJ
The five-pounds-a-week promise discredits her.
Fitness trainer “certification” is a joke if no post-secondary education whatsoever is required.
The super-obese can easily lose that much weight, if they are controlling their diets. As a percentage of overall weight, that is like claiming you or I could lose 1-2 pounds a week on some program, which is very possible.
Fitness trainers don’t need anything but CPR certification, some physiology, certain number of practice hours, and a class lasting about a semester. Don’t confuse them with exercise physiologists, rehab specialists, occupational therapists etc. who actually require a real education.
hey, you’re the one who called her a “sweet lady.”