NBC's Biggest Loser 2011

I have to admit, Biggest Loser has become one of my weekly shows that I look forward to watching.  I didn't always enjoy the show, but last year, somebody that I actually knew was picked to be on the show.  Remember Jay Jacobs?

Since then, I have been hooked on the show.  It was a bit less interesting not personally knowing a contestant, but it was still entertaining enough, and let's be real, who doesn't LOVE to watch a weight loss transformation?  This year I was particularly interested in the way Bob Harper would train his fatties.  Reason being?  I knew that he recently started doing Crossfit.  

Every episode that I would watch, I would catch a glimpse of people doing Kettlebell Swings, Wall Balls, and other Crossfit esk moves and it would make me happy!  The one catch, they would never utter the word Crossfit on the show.  

I watched the 2011 Season finale and FINALLY one of the contestants admitted that Crossfit was the reason she was losing/maintaining her weight at home. 

The other funny thing about all of this is that since Bob started Crossfit, he challenged Jillian (the ex trainer on the Biggest Loser and fitness guru) to a common WOD on TV and to be honest, she sucked.  That made me feel so good about myself!  

Jillian Does a WOD

"You don't have to be great to start.....but you have to start to be great"

Endurance:


500 Meter Row
10 Pull Ups (purple band)
10 Push Ups 
2 Rounds


WOD:
400 Meter Run
21-15-9
Hand Stand Push Ups
Kettlebell Swings (20kg)
400 Meter Run


Time: 15:03

Why is Running Addicting?

I often feel as if I go through these phases of loving and hating running.  Since running my two 5k's and watching the Biggest Losers complete a full marathon, I have been getting the itch to make some pretty hefty running goals for 2012.  


It's always so funny how ambitious I get in December. 

Since college when I got into running the most, I wanted to run a series of races.  


5k
10k
10 Miler
Half Marathon
Something Between this distance
Marathon


-OR-


Pledge to run "X" amount of miles in a year.  (Similar to the 100,000 meter rowing challenge that I failed).  




I suggested this to Reformed Fatty last night while watching the Biggest Loser and I could tell he had his reservations about this type of goal.  


The longest running race I've completed was the 10 Mile Broad Street Run and I swore that was going to be the max distance of running races I'd ever run because it was really really really really really hard.  Side Note:  I stopped training for it and I had just barely started Crossfit before running the race.  


So I think the reason why it was really really really hard was because I really really really didn't put too much effort into training.  And as I type these words I know it all goes back to my fear of success and my fear of failure.  Oh the tangled webs we weave!  


I am not sure what 2012 has in store for me just quite yet, but until then I will continue to think very long and hard about my fitness goals, and how I am going to achieve them.  



Monday

Endurance:
250 Row
10 Ab Mat Sit ups
3 Rounds

Strength:
3x2 Back Squats
3x2 Push Press from Behind

WOD:
12 Minute AMRAP
10 Kettlebell Swings (16kg)
20 Double Unders
10 Dead lifts (135lbs)

4+35


Tuesday

Strength:
3x7 Squat Cleans (65lbs)

WOD:
21-15-9
Overhead Squats (55lbs)
Box Jumps (24inch)

10:22

Cash Out:
Max Rep Pull Up: 7 w/Purple Band

GHD Work


Wednesday


Rest