Biggest Loser’s Jillian Michaels Fails Miserably with Kettlebells | Rant #13
Apr 8th 2009 · by B-Rad
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I witnessed a landmark event last night that was Ranting Fuel for today. Jillian Michaels demonstrating KETTLEBELLS on The Biggest Loser….WRONG! Imagine that. Someone on TV who doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing. Jillian, you should be ashamed of demonstrating something you obviously have yet to learn how to use yourself. This is even more devastating because you stand atop a very influential platform that MILLIONS of people watching NOT-in-the-know now know about kettlebells (good) but will use them wrong (bad).
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This is the equivalent of myself taking a 2 hour class on transmission repair at Jiffy Lube and then opening shop to fix transmissions. Any takers? I guarantee you this…make sure your insurance is paid up because you’ll be buying a new car!
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Saw Jillian last night demo for national tv, knew this would fire you up and warrant a Brad-rant!!!The whole kitchen exploded with …”what the…is she doing.” Even being a novice I could see she had no idea what she was doing…..It made the novice not feel so pathetic along with the knowledge that we have BRAD(obviously not the biggest loser)on our side..keep it up Brad, thanks for what your doing.
Did not see the program myself so can’t comment on this specific case, but…. too many Personal Trainers think that they can bluff their way through. You should always make sure that you can do ANY exercise you show to a client, this is where your testing of new methods, techniques and equipment in your own training come in.
Just my Opinion anyway!
TOM Godwin
Foresight Personal Training
Manchester, England
Great rant! I found your site because I was looking for a video of Jillian so that I could show my RKC Instructor.
Preach on brother Brad!
Mike T Nelson
Consider it cranked, with proper form and with heavy weights!
Repeatedly. Good rant Brad.
Now, where are those TSC results !!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????
OMG! I blogged about this too! I was shocked…but not surprised…i’m not impressed by her at all…
http://tinyurl.com/c6ppot
Ha Brad check this out.
http://www.flzine.com/they-said-what-jillian-michaels-cant-kettlebell/
Great post Brad. We need to get the RAD boot camp on TV. Real people real results.
i saw that and clutched my back!!! i also thought of you and if you had seen that how loud you would have gotten!! hope your easter was great bro!!
I did not see Jillian attempt the kettle bells but I must say that I am shocked.
Then again she fronts for 24 hour fitness and I have had bad experiences with that company, as have a few of my clients.
I’m sure she thought she was competent, poor dear.
JACKIE WARNER is great with kettle bells. She still has them donned on the floor next to her other free weights, and I’ve actually seen her use them…properly.
Jenn
Personal Fitness Trainer
LA Fitness in CA
Jillian is an angry bitch!
I found it interesting that you went off on the improper technique, but didn’t show us the correct way to use them. Hummmm
You people are something else
Jillian is terribly gifted and fit and amazing and, yes she may have made one teensy little mistake, but so what? get over it! It’s really not a big deal.
Diane, *you* are something else, or should i say someone else (Jillian? Is that you?) How in the world is Jillian gifted, fit or amazing? She is an angry idiot, who yells at her own “students” on the Tyra Banks show, uses equipment improperly… how are those “teensy” mistakes. Improper use of equipment IS is a VERY BIG deal, it results in injury which can at the very least destroy a training regimen or at worst CRIPPLE a person. That is the worst thing a “personal trainer” of any kind can do, short of killing the person with their bare hands.
Those are valid points, Dianne, but my case still stands. Jillian works hard everyday and inspires other people, even myself, to push our limits. And the “angry-bitch” persona is just that, a persona, and it’s usually over exaggerated.
If you ask me, Jillian did mess up. But those stupid enough not to research properly the correct use of exercise equipment and instead base their instructions on one person are the real idiots. I’ve had friends get injured severely because of lack of research. Jillian was not correct in her demonstration but im too smart not to look for other sources of instruction before using kettle bells.
p.s. i really love Jillian but the girl needs to practice these things before demonstrating incorrectly on live television!
Certified doesn’t mean qualified. Certifications do have value but in the end there is no way to police for integrity. I don’t care who you are… a mechanic, a doctor, a trainer… whatever… A person needs enough integrity to be honest with themselves and others and know when to say “I don’t know.” Just because JM has a tv show does not make her qualified to instruct any/every form of exercise. Perhaps there are things in which she is an expert… but kettlebell training is not one of them… so demonstrate some honesty and humility and step away from that limelight… before you hurt yourself or somebody else.