This Is Just Wrong!

[windwalker]

I just saw an advertisement for a new reality show that will be on stating monday night called "FAT MARCH". The idea is a group of overweight, unfit people will walk 500 miles.

We are edurance athletes. We know the pain envolved in just doing a marathon, by fit prepared people. This is beyond Stupid!

http://www.longevityclubs.com/fatmarch.htm

So much for us preaching safe exercise and training habits.

Steven King had some stories (Horror Catagory), one was "The Long Walk" where teenage boys walked accross country till only one was left alive. Another was a game show story called the "Running Man", they had games like heart patients on a treadmill going progressively faster till they had heart attacks, and swim the gators.

Is it just me or we getting darker and darker all the time with "Entertainment"? It is starting to scare me what is happening. What ever happened to love they neighbor? Not it's get the popcorn and watch him suffer.

I'll get off my soap box now but I just don't like the idea of this. A show about athletes doing a 500 mile ultra would be different, this is just wrong.

Dave

 

[ultramickeymouse]

I agree you need to train and work before you can do these things.

BTW, 66% of American;s are overweight/obese and if we continue, by 2012 75 % will be that way

 

[windwalker]

I agree you need to train and work before you can do these things.

BTW, 66% of American;s are overweight/obese and if we continue, by 2012 75 % will be that way

That is so true and so sad but the answer is not to watch an overweight person die on television. You have seen what distance can do to super fit athletes at the 100 milers.

I'm in pretty good shape but I would need at least a year of distance training before I would even attempt a 100 mile walk. From talking to other good athletes who have done these distances I've learned that I could expect it to take a toll on my body that takes months to fully recover from.

To dangle money in front of people to make them risk death or injury or our viewing pleasure is wrong.

Dave

 

[ohMom]

looks like a cheesy knock off of biggest loser -- a show encouraging unsafe fitness practice with Barbie and Ken is not going to be on my DVR

 

[windwalker]

looks like a cheesy knock off of biggest loser -- a show encouraging unsafe fitness practice with Barbie and Ken is not going to be on my DVR

We should feed Barbie and Ken to the Buggie at the Tower of Terror race.
Since I can't feed Judy to the Buggie.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/menteblu61/544684107/

Dave

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

I WISH there were a better way and another distressing thing is the hook that was offered:

Along the way, as they also hike through Rhode Island and Connecticut, one contestant, suffers a medical emergency and another has an emotional meltdown. Each competitor suffers through uncomfortable soreness and a fight against the elements that take significant wear and tear on their bodies

I WISH all this were easy, everyone looks for easy or the train wreck when viewing instead of the lifestyle changes that are necessary. I WISH that there would be a success story for all participants.

 

[padisneyfan]

Double post. Must have been a delay in getting through the first time.

Nancy

 

[padisneyfan]

Gosh I just replied to this thread and it disappeared. Anyway this show taped in York, Pa where I live. There was an article about it in our local paper. We are only 2 hrs by car from DC so I guess we were a day stop for them. I think they did some filming on the rail trail which is where I do my LW. It takes you from York to the MD line and from there you can pick up the MD rail trail. The producers also stopped at my gym and asked if they could film there but it never happened.

It is just another gimick show and I agree it is a take off on the Biggest Loser. Everyone is looking for a quick fixit to their weight problem.

Nancy

 

[windwalker]

Double post. Must have been a delay in getting through the first time.

Nancy

Nancy I know it's just one of shows that comes and goes. It just concerns me that they keep getting darker. Remember I'm from the time when the coolest shows on TV were Lassie, Leave it to Beaver and Gunsmoke.

Dave

 

[padisneyfan]

Nancy I know it's just one of shows that comes and goes. It just concerns me that they keep getting darker. Remember I'm from the time when the coolest shows on TV were Lassie, Leave it to Beaver and Gunsmoke.

Dave

How could you forget the Mickey Mouse Club?

Nancy

 

[windwalker]

How could you forget the Mickey Mouse Club?

Nancy

We lived in Japan, my dad was in the Air Force over there, we were limited on what we had to watch. The Mickey Mouse Club wasn't offered on our one english speaking channel called the Far East Network. "I Love Lucy" was on about 11 times a day though.

Dave

 

[Hey Mickey]

Nancy I know it's just one of shows that comes and goes. It just concerns me that they keep getting darker. Remember I'm from the time when the coolest shows on TV were Lassie, Leave it to Beaver and Gunsmoke.

Dave

I totally agree, Dave! I was just telling my husband the other day that these reality shows aren't so far removed from the gladiators in the coliseum -- and it disturbs me that watching people suffer is deemed "entertainment."

Then again, I still remember when the most interactive show on tv was a cartoon called "Winky Dink" where you bought a special magic screen to put on your tv and could draw in the things the main character needed! My cyber-savvy kids still fall over laughing when i tell them about this stuff.
They are loving watching TV Land and giggling over what passed for good television way back when.