Wii anger & Dance Your A** Off
I got so mad at the Wii today. I woke up really late and when I started what should have been a 30 minute workout, something was off and nothing was registering right. After 20 minutes, I gave up and decided I would do it later. Later, I was too tired. So anyway, I was mad at Wii, but really should be mad at myself for oversleeping. Tomorrow I will get back.
Have any of you caught the show Dance Your A** Off? I never thought I would like shows like The Biggest Loser, Diettribe, et cetera, but I got to liking them a lot. With this show, I hoped I would like it a lot. It started off well, with a decent balance between the dancing and the weight loss aspects. I think one of the major issues with the show is that they started with very overweight people. Unless the show is going to last for a year and a half, I do not think anyone will be at his or her “goal” by the show’s end. That may not be the point, but I like seeing the transformations and endings ending with goals. Also, the contestants seem to have realistic weeks (i.e. 7 day weeks instead of TBL which sometimes has a week of 10 days, 12 days, et cetera), and nothing too intense for exercise, so they lose very realistic amounts of 1-7 pounds a week. While I appreciate the realism, this results in each week having huge people dancing. Maybe I am a biggist, but it grosses me out to see all that skin flapping about. I know they are working to change it, but by week 4 or 5 whatever it is now, I guess I would prefer, as a viewer, to see pairs dancing instead of a chubby person mostly sort of standing there letting their “dancer” partners do most of the work. Is that horrible? Is it just me? If they had started the show with contestants all overweight but not mostly obese, I think it might have helped. Start them with modest clothes and then change the wardrobe from week to week instead of starting them off in terribly revealing things.
Also, I am not a nutritionist by any means, but on an episode tonight, a girl weighing 179 pounds who says she does 2 hours of dance, the gym, and 1 1/2 on the treadmill a day was told to cut her calories to 900 some a day! Is it just me or is that severely dangerous? I think if you were bedridden that would be low. . .
Oh well, I will keep watching it anyway. :-p
