Jillian Michaels & the Biggest Loser

There are many, many quotes from Jillian floating around in cyber space and all of them are motivating and make sense, to me anyway, but recently I came across this one.........

"If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough."  When I came across this quote, I didn't really understand it, but thought, it's Jillian, if she said it, there has to be something behind it.  The other day when I was catching up on some ironing and other housework TV I was lucky enough to witness the circumstances surrounding this quote.  It was between Jillian and one of her team members Amanda.  Check out this gorgeous former Biggest Loser Contestant.......

Jillian had her team doing treadmill intervals which were getting faster and faster.  Amanda had a mini breakdown and ended up walking out of the gym.  In the following episode Amanda apologised, but Jillian being Jillian, a simple apology just isn't good enough.  Jillian likes to get to the bottom of the problem and Amanda's was failing.  She didn't want to do the faster treadmill intervals because she thought she couldn't, she thought she would fail and that's where "If  you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough." came in. Jillian also told Amanda ~ 

"you have to redefine your view of failure.  It's not failure, it's a learning process.  You've got to fall down a few times, you've gotta make a few mistakes in order to learn, it's how you grow"

To me it means that it's not meant to be easy and you probably will fail a few times, but that's OK as long as you keep going and don't give up.  

I love watching the Biggest Loser, I always seem to learn things either from the trainers or the contestants.  I not only find the show extremely motivating, but also very entertaining.  I think it's hilarious how the white team (OZ Biggest Loser) have been banished to the bush for a week and poor Michelle is sleeping on eskys so she doesn't have to sleep on the ground "with bugs", at least they were given some foam mats to make beds :)

Even though the white team has been banished from the campus, they still get to train.

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After training they get to enjoy a nice, cold bucket shower.  I don't think I could handle this for a whole week - the poor girls.

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Here's a few other things I have learned from the Biggest Loser :

• You have to let go of the past to be able to change
• You have to make your own choices
• You have to forgive yourself to move forward
• You need to change on the inside, not just the outside
• It can't just be about the weight 
• One day it will be gone
• You need to find other reasons to train

That seems to be it for now, but I can see a pattern there and mine is that it's more mental than physical. 


How do you feel about the Biggest Loser.......

• Do you like it or loathe it?
• Do you learn anything from the show?
• Does the Biggest Loser motivate you?