The Biggest Loser UK 2012 - Episode # 2

The Biggest Loser UK 2012

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Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM

Week two sees the contestants take part in a sand challenge. The team that wins the challenge is granted immunity at the all-important weekly weigh-in. The team eliminated from the challenge first, face a disadvantage at the weigh in, affecting their overall percentage weight loss.

At the beginning of the week the contestants visit The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, a faculty within The University of Birmingham. Here, they go through a series of health tests and are informed, as a result of their past habits, of their biological ages. 'These contestants need some cold hard facts about their health' warns trainer Richard Callender. This is a difficult moment for all of the contestants, particularly as one of them is told -- as the situation currently stands -- they may have only 15 years left to live.

In this episode we see presenter Davina McCall take part in 'Last Chance Training' which lifts the contestants' spirits. She finds the training session intense and realises the extent to which the contestants are pushing their previously untrained bodies. Davina refers to Biggest Loser exercise experience with trainer Charlotte Ord as 'she's a wolf in sheep's clothing, my body is just trashed'!

This episode's main challenge is 'Digging to Victory' which involves five huge piles of sand. Inside each pile are a number of large tokens and each team must collect one blue token from the heap of sand in order to qualify for the next round. The team unable to retrieve a token in the first round are not automatically up for elimination at the weekly weigh-in, facing a two pound weight disadvantage. The two teams who make it to the final round battle it out to find the golden token; the victors escape the risk of elimination and win the ultimate prize.

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[MsPandaNut]

I don't know why, but I find that military type trainer, white guy kinda hot.

[CandyCoatedThinspo]

I've always wanted to do a last chance workout. :)

[sweetlolitagirly]

Damien is starting to annoy me sooooooo bad!

[MsAnnaKay]

I think I might like how the older seasons are set up better. I just watched the 2009 one before this one. The contestants are just as awesome as always, of course (I have no clue how I could do any of that), but these episodes seemed way too rushed in my opinion...

[singingpilgrimdancin]

I am obese and I find when I work out intensely I completely lose my appetite... and I've never done something as intense as TBL so I could see Damien might really just be unable to eat.

[Elisacr1]

TBL often shows that starvation methods don't actually work for weight loss. Contestants who starve themselves eventually get sabotaged because they can't maintain the training intensity or their metabolisms slow down and they don't lose as much weight.

[knightly boater]

It's funny you say that when in both your posts you can't even spell basic words.

[suraah]

don't you think he looks like Putin?

[Nanto Dwyer]

I think so too, but I have a friend who was trying to lose weight from approx. 20 stones, and she lost a lot during the first few weeks. I'm not sure if she also pushed herself this much, or if it was just because they all have got a lot of weight to lose in the beginning, and that their bodies were shocked by the sudden increase in exercise.