Biggest Loser...Former Athletes

• Ironman92

  

  Watching the first few min until Steelers/Ravens
  
  Damian Woody
  Scott Mitchell (366 lbs)
  Zina Garrison
  
  To name a few
• Ironman92

  

  New trainer looks like Shania Twain...nice
• Ironman92

  

  Mitchell lost 23 lbs in the first week lol
• Ironman92

  

  Some former college wrestler (upper 50's) and tore his meniscus after 3 days
  
  ....lost 38 lbs
  
  How do you lose 11% of your weight in 1 week with no use of you legs lol
• Fab4Runner

  

  I used to watch every season of The Biggest Loser, but haven't in quite a few years. We plan to tune into this one, though.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Ironman92;1653217 wrote:Some former college wrestler (upper 50's) and tore his meniscus after 3 days
  
  ....lost 38 lbs
  
  How do you lose 11% of your weight in 1 week with no use of you legs lol

  a week isn't always a week. read articles they sometimes go 15 days between weigh ins and sometimes 2 weigh ins in 1 week.
• thavoice

  Ironman92;1653217 wrote:Some former college wrestler (upper 50's) and tore his meniscus after 3 days
  
  ....lost 38 lbs
  
  How do you lose 11% of your weight in 1 week with no use of you legs lol

  Constant PT sessions, limited food, very overweight, and starting out a program can equal big losses. Also, read that a week always isnt a week..sometimes 10-12 days.
• like_that

  

  Wrestlers know how to cut weight and are the hardest working athletes. That's how.
• sportchampps

  I've also read before that first week some contestants load up on water so that they weigh as much as possible before starting so that their more likely to not be kicked off.
• Tiernan

  like_that;1653399 wrote:Wrestlers know how to cut weight and are the hardest working athletes. That's how.

  let us guess...YOU were a rassler?
• rrfan

  

  like_that;1653399 wrote:Wrestlers know how to cut weight and are the hardest working athletes. That's how.

  Said the same thing when I saw it...
• thavoice

  I used to watch it but yeah..few years ago a wrestler did very well in the show as well. he was a big time wrestler from Iowa.
  
  I think those with athletic backgrounds would have an advantage because they have had a history of working hard, working out and determination.....that they just happen to lose for a matter of time and gained lost of weight
• Ironman92

  

  like_that;1653399 wrote:Wrestlers know how to cut weight and are the hardest working athletes. That's how.

  Yeah....59 year old wrestler probably knows more than professional trainers
• Ironman92

  

  sportchampps;1653432 wrote:I've also read before that first week some contestants load up on water so that they weigh as much as possible before starting so that their more likely to not be kicked off.

  Yeah....definitely want to bulk up a touch for week one success but after that no easy way out
• Ironman92

  

  thavoice;1653467 wrote:I used to watch it but yeah..few years ago a wrestler did very well in the show as well. he was a big time wrestler from Iowa.
  
  I think those with athletic backgrounds would have an advantage because they have had a history of working hard, working out and determination.....that they just happen to lose for a matter of time and gained lost of weight

  Damien Woody sucked
• like_that

  

  Ironman92;1653526 wrote:Yeah....59 year old wrestler probably knows more than professional trainers

  Wrestlers are used to cutting weight, and they work hard. There is a correlation there. I know plenty of wrestling coaches in their 50's who still have that same mindset when their wrestling days. If they were put in a situation where they needed to focus and lose weight, they would do it.
• Ironman92

  

  like_that;1653558 wrote:Wrestlers are used to cutting weight, and they work hard. There is a correlation there. I know plenty of wrestling coaches in their 50's who still have that same mindset when their wrestling days. If they were put in a situation where they needed to focus and lose weight, they would do it.

  Any of those guys balloon up to 368 lbs?
  
  Look....when I saw them display the "-38"...him having a past in wrestling was the first thing I thought. But I will say those that let themselves get to 150 lbs overweight have so many negative factors that far outweigh (ha) the knowledge and experiences of being a wrestler.
  
  Regardless, no one thinks a great wrestler isn't a hard worker.
• Ironman92

  

  My god some of these people are so fucking huge.
• Ironman92

  

  Damian Woody down to 295 lbs....said he hasn't been that low since middle school. Lol
  
  Gigantic saggy man boobs though
• salto

  

  Ironman92;1653526 wrote:Yeah....59 year old wrestler probably knows more than professional trainers

  They don't necessarily know more but are willing to suffer more.
• Wally

  Mitchell lost zero pounds this week and got sent to Bob's gym.
• Ironman92

  

  But he's down to about his playing weight...down almost 100