{"id":477,"date":"2019-01-31T09:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/?p=477"},"modified":"2019-01-31T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:06:27","slug":"stop-picking-on-jillian-michaels-blame-it-on-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisajohnsonfitness.com\/stop-picking-on-jillian-michaels-blame-it-on-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Picking On Jillian Michaels: Blame it on Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/em> came out with a scathing article<\/a> on Jillian Michaels this week.  I\u2019ve been writing about \u201cThe Biggest Loser\u201d and the show\u2019s fitness tactics for well over a year, really hoping to get them to change their ways.  I\u2019ve gone after Jillian because her lack of credentials hasn\u2019t stopped her from endorsing diet pills or putting out yoga videos.  She seems to be an opportunist who is striking while the iron is hot and running with a quite tidy sum all the way to the bank.  Can you really blame her for that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Times <\/em>article was written by a friend of mine, James Fell<\/a>, and we were actually talking about the piece while he was researching it.  I referred him to a couple of my posts<\/a> on the topic.  I couldn\u2019t be happier that he has finally gotten some traction with the public on what I consider to be a very <\/em>serious issue.  He has rattled some cages and I hope this finally brings about real change to \u201creality\u201d television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you know what?  Jillian isn\u2019t the problem.  It\u2019s the producers who chose her in the first place and the marketers who handed her wads of cash and exploited her perky personality for their own financial gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why They Chose Jillian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was asking on Twitter why the television industry doesn\u2019t pick true fitness professionals to work on these weight loss shows.  Why is it always a bunch of people with online certifications like Jillian and Bob Harper from \u201cThe Biggest Loser\u201d and Jackie Warner<\/a> of \u201cThintervention\u201d?  Why aren\u2019t professionals with master\u2019s in Exercise Physiology or Kinesiology and top level certs from places like the ACSM on my TV screen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got an astonishingly simple answer:  because they aren\u2019t members of SAG<\/a>, the Screen Actors Guild.  Producers and casting agents always go there first to look for talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why hadn\u2019t that occurred to me before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jillian Could Have Prevented the Backlash<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jillian Michaels could have headed off this backlash.  I know at least two professional fitness organizations that offered her free certifications (a kettle bell organization and Spinning) if she would do their program.  She never bothered to give them a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She could have seen the burble on the blogs last year and said, maybe I should get that ACSM<\/a> cert and then people will back off.  She didn\u2019t bother.  She could have increased her level of professionalism and everyone would have supported her.  I, for one, would have been ecstatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So to some extent she really did this to herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Proposal to You<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please question where your fitness advice is coming from.  If you go to a fitness expert\u2019s website and look at their \u201cAbout\u201d page if it lists zero certifications it\u2019s probably because they don\u2019t have any.  Please keep in mind that these shows are really just marketing vehicles for sales of product.  Always keep that in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Proposal to the Fitness Pros<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a fitness professional, the barrier to becoming a SAG member is high.  It\u2019s a bit of a \u201cchicken-egg\u201d situation in that to shoot these shows, you need to be a SAG member, but in order to become a member of the Guild, you need to have worked on one of these shows.  And, the initiation fee is more than $2200 (even gyms can\u2019t charge that much).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what can you do? Get content out there, be it through blogs like this one, or YouTube videos or podcasts or any other number of channels that exist in today\u2019s wired world. The challenge becomes working to get your message heard, but if you\u2019re passionate about the topic like I am, then it\u2019s worth the time, effort, and energy.  And who knows? Maybe a casting agent will see your content and contact you for a future project that is looking to focus on proper fitness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Proposal to the Entertainment Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please seek us fitness professionals out.  Please ask for our help.  Please go to universities to look for your experts, not to your filing cabinets for headshots.  We give great advice, and some of us are cute enough to meet your needs and great on camera too.  Please let us help you produce quality shows that will actually have a real impact on the obesity epidemic that the US is facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think?  I would love your feedback here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa<\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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