"The Biggest Loser" is a popular television reality show that houses 16 people on a compound and has them lose large amounts of weight. One of the two contestants who lost the least amount in a week is voted off the show. The show's winner gets $250,000. Contestants lose enormous amounts of weight in a short amount of time, often dropping more than 100 pounds in 16 weeks. They also have a lot of help.
The Ranch
The show is based on a housing and exercise compound, known as "The Ranch." Contestants are housed there and are allowed to leave only for supervised visits home. The outside world is not allowed to interfere. Since contestants are paid for being on the show, jobs are not a concern. The only things contestants have to be concerned with are exercising, eating according to plan and losing weight.
Exercise
Contestants train like professional athletes, seven days a week. Even in the beginning weeks, when players may be more than 100 lbs. overweight, trainers will make them work out six to eight hours a day. Enormous amounts of calories are burned off, with workout sessions getting progressively more intense every week.
Competition
The spirit of competition runs throughout the show. Every day is a contest between all the players, just to see how they are doing. Weekly competitions up the ante, with prizes ranging from cash and exercise equipment to immunity from being voted off and visits from loved ones. Alliances are made and broken, and competition can be fierce.
Trainers
One of the biggest secrets to the enormous weight loss by the contestants is their trainers. Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels are coach, boss, friend, counselor and buddy to their team members. They yell at them, they cry with them and they cheer them on. Both trainers are emotionally invested in having their team members win, and contestants are constantly trying harder to win for Jillian or Bob. The emotional tie is very real, and contestants seem extremely close with these trainers. They will do everything humanly possible to not disappoint their coach.
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