The Truth About Jillian Michaels
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Skinny fat means shes skinny but doesn't have enough muscle definition, especially in her line of work. I just think she's weak. The Idea of the work outs are great for getting most people into shape, but I'm already in shape, and I want a higher level of fitness. She hasn't obtained that higher level and I would never accept her as a coach.
She can't even run... you can watch it on youtube.
I'm betting she is a whole lot fitter than you are. I would bet my life on it. As for her running.... she can run...she just does not LIKE to do so. If you don't LIKE it then you are not going to want to be good at it. Simple as that.
I'm wondering where you get the no muscle def from..... have you seen her? Really? You must be blind.
She's not wanting to be your coach.0 -
It's like people want to choose their trainer based on how *they* personally want to look, not realizing that their body type will never allow them to look like that. Funny how that same standard doesn't apply to the opposite sex. It's quite funny. Hahaha.0
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Yeah, I really hate how she has no muscle tone... :huh:[Skinny fat means shes skinny but doesn't have enough muscle definition, especially in her line of work. I just think she's weak. The Idea of the work outs are great for getting most people into shape, but I'm already in shape, and I want a higher level of fitness. She hasn't obtained that higher level and I would never accept her as a coach.
She can't even run... you can watch it on youtube.
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I will have to say that people criticizing her are simply jealous of her beautiful body. I mean, can't you really see those abs, arm muscles popping out of her clothes and the adonis muscles and still saying she has NO definition? If you hate her so much then don't follow her videos. Jesus!0
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Maybe people are being "protective" because you're being an *kitten*.
I think there's a tad of a difference between me having an opinion about a celebrity trainer and you being personally abusive to another user, don't you?But good news MsPudding, the odds of you somehow accidentally getting Jillian's body are nil.
....and another person who responds to an opinion about a celebrity with personal abuse.
Interesting. Still, nevermind, that's why the forum comes with a 'Report Post' feature I guess
Perhaps you need some assistance with reading comprehension. The poster who said the above about you not being able to accidentally get Jillian's body was not a slam or derogatory comment to you. The comment said there was no way for you to "accidentally" get her body. Meaning, that you wouldn't be able to look like Jillian simply by happenstance - you would actually have to try to look like her. If you don't want to have her shape, good news! You won't have her shape unless you try to have it. I fail to see how that violates the TOS of the forums.
I don't understand the comments about Jillian looking masculine - hello? Boobs! LOL Also, she talked on her podcast about her face being too thin when she was working out a lot and that it was suggested to her that she either have some plastic surgery like procedures (fillers and the like) or gain 5 pounds, so she gained 5 pounds.0 -
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Guy claims to have had his movie script Green Lantern stolen in another video. Anyone see a pattern?
Anyway, excess growth hormone does not cause a huge jaw line. There isn't any drug on the market that makes jaw bone huge. That's complete nonsense. Surgery to fix all these problems that he's claiming would have left scars somewhere on the face to shave down her jaw line and cut out her Adam's apple.
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Most of the time I don't give Jillian Michaels much thought. I did perk up my ears one day when somebody brought one of her 'kickboxing' tapes into Fairtex and put it in the VCR. We all sat and watched it for a few minutes. The unspoken understanding in the room was that by the standards of a Muay Thai camp Jillian Michaels, well, doesn't know much and definitely hasn't ever been hit before. But we were all kind of waiting to see what Bunkerd (350 fights, 5 time Thai champion) and Ganyao (332 fights) had to say. Ganyao just kinda got up, snorted and left the room. But Bunkerd was quite kind. He said: She helps spread the name of Muay Thai and awareness of the art to the farang (foreign people) that would otherwise know nothing at all about it.
As a postscript, there are a couple of claims Ms. Michaels makes that, while they may appeal to Americans who don't know any better, appear silly to an expert. For example: claiming to be a black belt in Muay Thai is a bit like claiming to be a black belt in jazz piano. There are no belts, except for a title belt, and you get that in the ring. There are many women who can reasonably claim to be an expert in Muay Thai, but Jillian Michaels is not one of them.0 -
So she's not some squeaky clean angel. I don't think she has ever made herself out to be. She's been pretty open about her own struggles and challenges.
She has never hidden the fact that she has a fairly passionate temper. I think it's kind of refreshing to see a successful woman who doesn't conform too much to stereotypes of what the feminine figure or personality SHOULD be.
She is strong willed, tends to know what she wants and goes after it. And she displays the whole range of human emotions doing so. For which she gets a lot of flak that I don't think an expressive man in a similar position would get.
I think a lot of people respond to her because she is open about her emotions- negative and positive- and that is fairly reassuring. She is pretty consistent and doesn't bottle stuff up. That's kind of easy to read.
Yes, she has slim hips, but I don't think that makes her a man. It does look she has had some cosmetic surgery the last few years, but a lot of high profile women in the media do that.
Bit silly to release a high caffeine pill, but it's not really equivalent to being a murderer.0 -
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Guy claims to have had his movie script Green Lantern stolen in another video. Anyone see a pattern?
Anyway, excess growth hormone does not cause a huge jaw line. There isn't any drug on the market that makes jaw bone huge. That's complete nonsense. Surgery to fix all these problems that he's claiming would have left scars somewhere on the face to shave down her jaw line and cut out her Adam's apple.
Run an image search on "acromegaly" to see what excess growth hormone after puberty can do to the jawline. Not that it proves anything about Michaels, of course, but it has been known to happen to bodybuilders who abuse growth hormone.0 -
I don't care if it's true. I don't like her. I've never liked her. Her approach to training is awful.0
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I'm sorry, but what does her personal life have to do with her business life & workouts? This poor guy is so butt hurt by Jillian, I almost feel bad for him. If telling the world about her crazy days of bar fighting and getting into arguments with her girlfriend makes him feel better about the fact that Jillian hurt him and left him in the dust, while she's out making a KILLING -- then preach on, brother.
Poor sap.0 -
I will say I was a little disappointed that Jillian would sell diet pills instead of only promoting healthy nutrition and exercise, but that doesn't stop me from respecting her as a trainer. I have done her 30 Day Shred and am now doing her Ripped In 30 and I have never gotten better results! Nobody's life is perfect and we all have things we may have done in the past that we are not proud of. The problem with being famous is that everything gets brought out and you have very little privacy.0
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lol@all the people getting upset that someone has negative things to say about Jillian Michaels.
LOL...that's why I was thinking. Jeezuz..who cares?0 -
I knew there was something not right about her. I was never a fan of her's on the BL, and even though she seems to have a good amount of people that swear by her and her methods, she's just way too extreme and mean for me to ever feel motivated. I'm very happy losing my piddly 2-3 lbs a week, thank you very much. I don't need to feel like *kitten* after every workout (physically and mentally), I want to feel good!
Another thing is my fiance thinks she is totally smoking hot! Most of the time I totally agree with him when he comments on other woman, but with her I'm always saying that I'd love, love love to have her body, but not her man-face. (and I'm not likening her look to the women that lift weights, I'm likening her to having a 'roid face)0 -
Skinny fat means shes skinny but doesn't have enough muscle definition, especially in her line of work. I just think she's weak. The Idea of the work outs are great for getting most people into shape, but I'm already in shape, and I want a higher level of fitness. She hasn't obtained that higher level and I would never accept her as a coach.
She can't even run... you can watch it on youtube.
I'm betting she is a whole lot fitter than you are. I would bet my life on it. As for her running.... she can run...she just does not LIKE to do so. If you don't LIKE it then you are not going to want to be good at it. Simple as that.
I'm wondering where you get the no muscle def from..... have you seen her? Really? You must be blind.
She's not wanting to be your coach.
Wow. She has crappy form. Her arms are all over the place. Why doesn't somebody help her?
However, this doesn't mean that she's not fit. She'd be a lot happier of a runner if she got some control.0 -
I think he's sincere. But calling her a sexually aggressive lesbian is a little off.
As for Jillian, a person can do both good and bad things.
She has good workout videos and decent books. If she stole that material that's a problem.
The BMR calculator in her first book, Winning by Losing, helped me drop 25 pounds in college.
But I knew that she sold out to the fitness industry by putting her name on supplements of questionable value.
An honest person selling health will focus on diet and exercise. Not supplements.
I'm suspicious of the claim that she uses cocaine cigarettes on a regular basis. I think if she made a habit of it we would see a weakened physique. I also saw a picture of her when she was supposedly a fat teenager - she was clearly far more than 15 pounds overweight.
And male steroids ? Possibly. But I don't think her body resembles a man. Could surgery cover up male steroid abuse ? Maybe. But it's not like she has a six pack, just mild oblique definition like myself.
Temper tantrums ? Probably. Seems to have an alpha, bossy personality.
Do I believe the guy making the claims ? Yes. Is Jillian all bad ? No idea.
Regardless she makes hard workout videos so that is a plus.0 -
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I really don't care what people like this say, her workouts are amazing, so what if she stole it or not? It works and more fool him if he didn't go forward with the DVD's and the fame.
On the supplement issue, you're all stupid if you take stuff but don't research the ingredients before you pump stuff into your body. Why not just eat clean and exercise??0 -
You're wrong about the jaw line..
Guy claims to have had his movie script Green Lantern stolen in another video. Anyone see a pattern?
Anyway, excess growth hormone does not cause a huge jaw line. There isn't any drug on the market that makes jaw bone huge. That's complete nonsense. Surgery to fix all these problems that he's claiming would have left scars somewhere on the face to shave down her jaw line and cut out her Adam's apple.
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I think something must be wrong with me, because I think she is really freaking hot. It is weird for me to read comments about her looking "masculine".
I understand the other criticisms, but not that one.
Wait, I also don't understand the homophobic criticisms.
Or the ones about her domineering style. That's just personal preference!0 -
Something has always rubbed me the wrong way with Jillian. I appreciate her workouts but I don't like her. I saw her on The Doctors once and all the Doctors pretty much disagreed with her (she was saying kids should never ever ever have junk food and parents were being bad parents for letting their kids eat it).
Also I remember reading/hearing years ago about the dodgy pills she put her name to.0 -
I don't care what anyone says, I love Jillian, she has changed my life significantly and changed my husbands as well. We saw her in April for her Maximize your life tour and she is the sweetest kindest person I have ever met. She is so sincere and down to earth. So hate all you want, she's winning in life.0
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I don't really know much about her, but I thought she was pretty benign. Then the other day I was waiting in line at the drugstore and saw that she has both a fat burner and a colon cleanse with her name on it. So... yeah. Now on my list of "bad dangerous people you should never ever listen to DR OZ I AM LOOKING AT YOU."
I don't really care what she's like in her personal life; it doesn't have any bearing on her job and it's none of my business. I do care if she's encouraging other people to hurt themselves, because her job is kind of supposed to be the opposite of that.0 -
Thread should be renamed "The 'truth' (?) about Jillian Michaels?"
But even that seems a little bit misleading.
The post about her being out of shape or skinny-fat was also super-weird since she looks the way she needs to for her job and target audience. A personal trainer with, say, a fitness competitor physique would probably be considered overly bulky for most of Michaels' clients.0 -
Yeah, I really hate how she has no muscle tone... :huh:[Skinny fat means shes skinny but doesn't have enough muscle definition, especially in her line of work. I just think she's weak. The Idea of the work outs are great for getting most people into shape, but I'm already in shape, and I want a higher level of fitness. She hasn't obtained that higher level and I would never accept her as a coach.
She can't even run... you can watch it on youtube.
If that's skinny fat, then I gotta get me some. I'm not the biggest fan of Jillian's, but as for anyone claiming she stole their moves, erm excuse me, but I can count on one hand the number of truly innovative ideas in fitness training since I started lifting weights in the 80s.
This just reminds me of a guy I know who's dad got him golfing lessons... until he got better at it than him. To this day his father won't play golf with him.
So your protege made it big and you didn't. Suck it up, life isn't fair.
As for comments about her masculine face, yeah because we're all on here for our looks. She's a human being who can read.0 -
Why do we watch one video, and everyone believes it suddenly? o.o0
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Why do we watch one video, and everyone believes it suddenly? o.o
Because the world is filled with haters.0 -
lol first thing I notice is all the comments agreeing with him and I think , "wow all these people trust his opinion" then I see comments are withheld for his approval lol. Anyway this is stupid on so many levels. I'm pretty sure despite her being a raging lesbian on cocaine and pumped up on roids who hates babies and steals people's inventions that her workout vids will work all the same. He tries so hard to paint her in an unflattering way and bathe himself in light, ('oh I give money to people who need it' I still drive a beat up ford' oh lol my penguin rat cat dance see how funny and down to Earth I am? blah blah blah I'm so humble and earthly but still not above some good old mud slinging) Other than the claim that her supplements are dangerous, which hell maybe they are I have no clue, all the stuff he's *****ing about doesn't really affect us. Her past/personal life is not relevant in the gym. And even if she did lie about being more overweight than she really was okay that's kinda ****ty and that did help build her some credibility I'm sure, but do you really think that she's the first celebrity, Much less a weight loss coach/guru/ SALESMAN to lie?0
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I think we should just come to the conclusion that every/any type of celebrity is on drugs and lies. We see/read one article about it and its 100% true.
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lol first thing I notice is all the comments agreeing with him and I think , "wow all these people trust his opinion" then I see comments are withheld for his approval lol. Anyway this is stupid on so many levels. I'm pretty sure despite her being a raging lesbian on cocaine and pumped up on roids who hates babies and steals people's inventions that her workout vids will work all the same. He tries so hard to paint her in an unflattering way and bathe himself in light, ('oh I give money to people who need it' I still drive a beat up ford' oh lol my penguin rat cat dance see how funny and down to Earth I am? blah blah blah I'm so humble and earthly but still not above some good old mud slinging) Other than the claim that her supplements are dangerous, which hell maybe they are I have no clue, all the stuff he's *****ing about doesn't really affect us. Her past/personal life is not relevant in the gym. And even if she did lie about being more overweight than she really was okay that's kinda ****ty and that did help build her some credibility I'm sure, but do you really think that she's the first celebrity, Much less a weight loss coach/guru/ SALESMAN to lie?
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