The Biggest Loser Diet Review
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BACKGROUND OF THE BIGGEST LOSER BOOTCAMP
NBC’s The Biggest Loser taught hundreds of contestants how to lose thousands of pounds. While this long-running show ended in 2016, it continues to impact lives across the country.
The three trainers of the show condensed the fitness, diet, and nutritional practices of the Biggest Loser ranch into an easy-to-follow book. The resulting program, titled, Biggest Loser Bootcamp, aims to bring the nutrition, fitness, and dieting practices of the show right to your doorstep. The resulting eight-week program aims to deliver earth shattering results with its planned recipes and step-by-step workout.
Jesse Pavelka, Dolvett Quince, and Jennifer Widerstom (three certified trainers) guide you on this journey. While The Biggest Loser pulled support for this program some time ago, it’s still available for purchase on the open market. Let’s find out if this DVD is effective enough to justify a bargain-bin treasure hunt.
ADVANTAGES OF THE BIGGEST LOSER BOOTCAMP
- Proven, certified trainers designed the exercise and diet plans on the DVD.
- Allows you to easily adjust your calorie limits based on your exercise and weight loss goals.
- The DVD and accompanying book provide complete recipes for all meals.
- Your daily workouts come pre-planned. Detailed photos and descriptions detailed descriptions accompany each exercise.
- Can be purchased used for less than $1.00 on Amazon.
DISADVANTAGES OF THE BIGGEST LOSER BOOTCAMP
- The condensed eight-week program does not provide the level of weight loss seen at the Biggest Loser Ranch.
- DYOW days do not offer much guidance.
- Weekly and daily meal plans are inflexible. People with unique dietary requirements, such as vegetarians or pescetarians, may find this diet difficult.
NUTRITION ON BIGGEST LOSER BOOTCAMPN
While its standard diet centers on consuming less than 1500 calories per day, the program offers alternative options depending on gender, baseline activity level, and body type. For instance, a woman with an active lifestyle weighing over 250 pounds, should target a daily caloric intake of 1,750 calories. This will allow her to lose about one-and-a-half pounds on a weekly basis. If she drops her daily intake to 1,500 calories, however, her weight loss will jump to about two pounds a week.
The Biggest Loser Bootcamp outlines what you will eat every day for dinner, lunch, and breakfast. This highly-detailed meal plan comes with pictures and easy-to-use recipes. The book also includes tips for snacking, staying hydrated, and food substitutions.
Here’s a potential meal plan:
Breakfast: Egg whites, blueberries, tomatoes, toast, and skim milk.
Lunch: A large salad filled with cheddar, grilled veggies, and chicken.
Dinner: Grilled salmon, wild rice, baby spinach, chopped walnut, and canteloupe.
Snacks: You can eat about 300 calories of snacks per day.
EXERCISE ON THE BIGGEST LOSER BOOTCAMP DIET
The plan does not require equipment for any of its body weight or cardio exercises. The program does, however, recommend purchasing resistance bands, gym towels, or free weights in order to get better results.
One of The Biggest Loser’s trainers, Dolvett Quince, created all the program’s workout circuits. All exercises come with pictures and a detailed description. Unlike many exercise plans, these do not ask you to log miles or count reps. Instead, they use time as a baseline measure. For example, instead of doing 30 jumping jacks, you must complete as many as you can in 50 seconds. The program aims to help you gradually increase the number of repetitions completed. The novel also includes an intensity scale which ranges from 10 (total exertion) to 0(not moving). Each workout comes with a recommended intensity level.
While most of your exercise time will be taken up by preplanned workouts, Biggest Loser Bootcamp does offer some “freebies”. These DYOW (Do-Your-Own-Workout)days ask you to design and adhere to your own workout plan. The book offers little advice on how to do so. These DYOW sections happen to be one of the book’s weakest moments.
CONCLUSION
Eight weeks of proven workouts and calorie-driven meal plans make The Biggest Loser Bootcamp great value for the money. If you’re looking for directions on changing your lifestyle, and step-by-step instructions, this book is for you. The rebels or vegetarians in our audience, however, might need to look elsewhere.
Overall, though, DIETSiTRIED believe this book to reflective of the powerful techniques featured on NBC’s The Biggest Loser. This book is well-worth its dollar-store price tag.
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I joined this club immediately the show ended running in 2016, it was indeed one of the most informative show and am pleased to share it out with the public that the program is one that incorporates fitness, diet and nutritional practice to one agenda that is used in weight loss. With easy access to the plan, one can install this on a mobile phone or register with mail. My eight weeks of enrollment has come with the great achievement of my weight loss by close to 25% of my total weight. Step by step approach that is installed in the program helps in providing a day to day achievable and workable targets’. I strongly recommend anyone to this program for weight loss and body fitness.