I cannot stop laughing! Please stop, I might wet my pants. Please take look at the article by Rene Lynch at the LA Times, “Sweating it out as a Big Loser.” Hilarious!

“I started out the same way that the contestants do. A warm-up, followed by cardio followed by circuit trainingwith Bob or Jillian.

Bob ordered me — and that’s the right verb — to begin running at 5 miles per hour — and at a 5% incline. That’s kind of fast, and kind of steep. It wasn’t long before I smelled something burning — my hamstrings.

When neither trainer was looking, I dropped the pace down to 4.7 mph. Eagle-eyed Bob detected it almost immediately. The giveaway? The turnover of my feet.

“You should be at 5 miles per hour,” he barked — again the correct verb. I picked the pace back up. That was followed by minute-long interval runs — I got as high as 8.3 mph on my treadmill, far faster than I ever thought I could go.”

No joke, read the whole thing.  I’m not kidding. Do it! Do I sound a little like Jillian?

MikeZ – “I, Mike, promise to watch the ‘Biggest Loser’ with a new found respect – amen.”