LA Times calls trainer Jillian Michaels’ techniques and weight loss claims ‘appalling’

Jillian Michaels has fired back at a scathing LA Times Op of an experienced personal trainer, who critiques her education, her techniques and her assertion that people can lose five pounds a week with her fitness DVDs. The entire LA Times piece is here and it is worth read if you bought one of Michaels' DVDs and especially if you are considering doing her kettle bell workout. The author quotes several other personal trainers who take issue with her form on her new kettle bell DVD calling it both difficult to follow and potentially dangerous. It is not a measured criticism and gets pretty nasty and personal at times. Here are some of Article:

[From LA Times]

The article goes on to slam Michaels' assertion that you can lose five pounds a week with her workout and explains the many ways this is both unhealthy and unrealistic.

Here is a link to the YouTube kettle bell demonstration (Cited in the article above) shows how to properly train with kettle bells. The trainer in the video, Jude Howe says Michaels' technique is poor and relatively unsafe, and discusses the technical reasons why you should not do training the way she shows it. And here is a link to the above blog in article to discuss how Michaels' kettle bell training down people at high risk of back injury. I've never worked out with kettle bells, but they seem really dangerous if you do not know what you're doing. These are very heavy weights you swing around, and you have to maintain proper form In order to avoid hurting yourself. After watching these videos I definitely want giving them a chance, though.

In responses to this article, Jillian says that she is obviously well educated and keeps up with her continuing education classes. She also threatened to applicant LA Times for publishing the piece. a trainer. I currently own two certifications, one does not expire. I developed my own continuing education of teachers, with sports medicine doctors.

That article had a lot of very specific criticism of Michaels' form, while teaching kettlebells and it was not about her lack of education in general, although it took some cheap shots in that direction. Is she going to sue anyone teachers who gave quotes says she does it wrong? It seems like they are on anything. She can not even act the part of a personal trainer and she is certainly experienced in this area. If she does not know how to teach kettlebells properly she would not make DVDs with dangerous movements can potentially harm humans, is all.

Michaels is currently facing several lawsuits over false claims about her

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