Hollywood Fitness

Do you ever catch yourself watching and following what these people say?

This is "Hollywood Fitness". 

Sadly this is what people think is the norm in my industry.

Personal trainers on the Biggest Loser yelling and spitting in your face to move, and TV doctors preaching everything you do is an early sign of cancer...

You end up thinking the gym is a place where you're supposed to feel miserable, and if your not swimming in a bath tub full of sweat, you're not working hard enough.

Every week there seems to be a new diet that eliminates anything and everything.

Then you quickly realize that fat free yogurt you started eating last week that you thought was healthy, was a lie, as you turn on your television and Dr Oz tells you its not.

You end up discouraged, confused and frustrated as you slip right back to square one.

No wonder health and fitness is so confusing..... 

I get angry when I see crap like this fed to the general population who have no idea. Especially when I find something like this:

100 Most Influential Health and Fitness People

Looking through the list I am shocked to see Gwentyh Paltrow #17 as the "Cleansing Queen" beat someone like John Berardi #33 who is the founder of Precision Nutrition, and not only that but has a Ph.D....

How does this happen?!?!

To make this into more of a rant I will take a shot at Gwentyh here and ask, how is she considered to be a health expert? Was it because of her mentor Tracey Anderson? A "trainer of the stars" who when you search her up, I don't even know what certifications she has, or really know what qualifies her as a training coach...

Sure, you can make the argument that she has a net worth of $110 million dollars, so she must be doing something right....

Yes, of course she is doing something right, just not in the training department.

When she said "no woman should lift more than 3lbs dumbbells" my jaw dropped. 3lbs?!?! women's purses weigh more than 3lbs, your children weigh more than 3lbs!

I can go on and on but I think you all get my point. There are many so called "experts" in the health and fitness world, but not all of them are real.

So the next time you're thinking of doing your Jillian Michael's workout DVD and see this 

Take a second and ask yourself, does it look right?

Thoughts?