Biggest Loser: Escalator Challenge

1. As long as it took to win the prize.

2. At least 1 second less than I would.

3. Fictional Character. Go ahead and make up whatever time will satisfy your almond-sized brain and cause you to giggle at your outdated reference to an overused running joke. You have added nothing to the Rexing story and in fact by adding nothing, you have dilluted the pool of Rexing posts on this site. Nice going asswipe.

Teg would win if it was a 10k. Oh wait, Teg doesn't run the 10k. You smell.

Trackie wrote:

3. Fictional Character. Go ahead and make up whatever time will satisfy your almond-sized brain and cause you to giggle at your outdated reference to an overused running joke. You have added nothing to the Rexing story and in fact by adding nothing, you have dilluted the pool of Rexing posts on this site. Nice going asswipe.

Pot meet Kettle. Calling Rexing "fictional" is nothing short of sacrilegious behavior.

Trackie wrote:

1. As long as it took to win the prize.

2. At least 1 second less than I would.

3. Fictional Character. Go ahead and make up whatever time will satisfy your almond-sized brain and cause you to giggle at your outdated reference to an overused running joke. You have added nothing to the Rexing story and in fact by adding nothing, you have dilluted the pool of Rexing posts on this site. Nice going asswipe.

Get in your car now and DRIVE! Don't pack anything, don't turn off the lights, don't even turn off the computer, you won't have time, get out of there NOW before He gets there.

And when He does find you, "May Rexing have mercy on your soul!"

Trackie wrote:

3. Fictional Character. Go ahead and make up whatever time will satisfy your almond-sized brain and cause you to giggle at your outdated reference to an overused running joke. You have added nothing to the Rexing story and in fact by adding nothing, you have dilluted the pool of Rexing posts on this site. Nice going asswipe.

Google dont lie bitch!

Not going to lie, I just really hate fat people.

Big Loser wrote:

Tonights challenge on the Biggest Loser was to walk up an escalator and outlast all opponents for a $10,000 reward. The winner lasted a staggering 25 minutes! Please answer the following three questions:

1. How long would you last in such a contest?

2. How long would Dean Karnazes last in such a contest?

3. How long would Jason Rexing last in such a contest?

Gotta realilze these people are morbidly obese -- or at least close to it still.

To the questions:

1) As of right now at age 41 when running medium distance 3-4 days a week (plus Orbitrek and lifting on non-running days) plus carrying more weight than I should be, I could likely do 2-3 hours on that escalator in such a contest.

2) Dean K. could likely do 24 hours or so if he wanted to. He's not a great athlete, but he does have endurance and determination.

3) Jason Rexing could do it forever -- until he dies, which would be years and years away, assuming up to age 100 at least.

Do morbidly obese people cry a lot more than other people? Someone on this show cries every episode.

Maybe they are not crying. Maybe because they are so fat that their eyelids are working in overdrive and it isn't tears that we see. It is sweat from their eyelids

I would stay on that for 72 hours without food or water for $1,000 let alone $10,000.

The real questions is how would you go to the bathroom? Could you pee in a bottle or something while climbing that slow all escalator?

Those people were pathetic. That thing was barely moving. I love all the people with "knee injures". It's because you are such a fat ass.

Without Question wrote:

Those people were pathetic. That thing was barely moving. I love all the people with "knee injures". It's because you are such a fat ass.

The knee injuries weren't due to them being fat. Meniscal injuries occur from compression/shearing/twisting forces. It probably happened from the intense workouts they were doing 2-3 times a day. If you haven't been doing that ever, and start full throttle, there's a good chance you'll get hurt.

If they had arthritis or heart disease or something, then you could say it was because they are fat.

no kids, thank you wrote:

Without Question wrote:

Those people were pathetic. That thing was barely moving. I love all the people with "knee injures". It's because you are such a fat ass.

The knee injuries weren't due to them being fat. Meniscal injuries occur from compression/shearing/twisting forces. It probably happened from the intense workouts they were doing 2-3 times a day. If you haven't been doing that ever, and start full throttle, there's a good chance you'll get hurt.

If they had arthritis or heart disease or something, then you could say it was because they are fat.

Are you kidding me? You think that being overweight doesn't add to the "compression/shearing/twisting forces" in the knees? Their weight contributed to their knee injuries just as it contributes to the heart disease and host of other health problems that many of them probably have.

Dr. Fraunkensteen wrote:

no kids, thank you wrote:

The knee injuries weren't due to them being fat. Meniscal injuries occur from compression/shearing/twisting forces. It probably happened from the intense workouts they were doing 2-3 times a day. If you haven't been doing that ever, and start full throttle, there's a good chance you'll get hurt.

If they had arthritis or heart disease or something, then you could say it was because they are fat.

Are you kidding me? You think that being overweight doesn't add to the "compression/shearing/twisting forces" in the knees? Their weight contributed to their knee injuries just as it contributes to the heart disease and host of other health problems that many of them probably have.

I agree. the obvious would be compression, but twisting can definitely increase as these people gain weight and their biomechanics have to adjust (feet turn out, etc). I'm sure the workouts didn't help though

Well yes starting a hard workout routine when you are a jumbo lard ass and sit on your ass all day and eat is a problem.

But it all goes hand in hand. They are fat because they don't do anything. They got hurt because they don't do anything AND they are fat.

So you could say (by your logic) that fat people are more likely to get meniscal tears?

I suppose you're right, but only if they live in Utah and are over 50 years old (which neither of the injured contestant are).

Check out this study: the only one on PubMed that did a correlation b/w BMI and meniscal tears. Don't mind that BMI is not a very good system for classifying overweight and obese.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/pubmed/15831342?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

I still say if you took a sedentary person of normal weight and put them through the same program as Biggest Loser, you'd get a similar number of orthopedic injuries in the same time frame.

Trackie wrote:

1. As long as it took to win the prize.

2. At least 1 second less than I would.

3. Fictional Character. Go ahead and make up whatever time will satisfy your almond-sized brain and cause you to giggle at your outdated reference to an overused running joke. You have added nothing to the Rexing story and in fact by adding nothing, you have dilluted the pool of Rexing posts on this site. Nice going asswipe.

I guess I'm out of the loop so to speak. Jason Rexing is a real person, he ran for Notre Dame, correct? Is this another Jason Rexing or is there some inside joke I'm missing?