{"id":3078,"date":"2010-01-02T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T08:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2015-02-25T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T13:57:28","slug":"diana-nyad-blew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/diana-nyad-blew-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Nyad Blew It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone remember Diana Nyad?\u00a0 Once upon a time, she was a world-class athlete<\/a>, and – in 1979 – swam 102.5 miles from Bimini to Florida.\u00a0 In subsequent years, she also worked as a sportscaster\/journalist, author and speaker.\u00a0She’s an incredibly accomplished woman.<\/p>\n

She’s also one of the founders of “Brava Body” a training site offering exercise DVDs and custom workouts.\u00a0 In this capacity, she and her partner, Bonnie Stoll, appeared on “Good Morning America” to promote their “Holiday Remedy” – a program designed to “trim those holiday pounds.”<\/a><\/p>\n

So what’s the problem?\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the video (click the above link to view\u00a0it on the GMA site),\u00a0Nyad talked viewers through the first few exercises in the program\u00a0(which Bonnie Stoll and the GMA interviewer demonstrated).\u00a0\u00a0To be honest, I thought they\u00a0looked\u00a0pretty tame, and\u00a0wouldn’t do much of anything to “rev the metabolism” as she claimed.\u00a0 But even worse, in the process of discussing the merits of the program, she lent\u00a0credence to\u00a0one of the oldest,\u00a0“zombie lies” about\u00a0women’s exercise\u00a0in existence:<\/p>\n

“So anyway, the idea again is no heavy muscles, we’re not building gigantic muscles, we’re just gonna rev the metabolism over the holidays…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Diana Nyad\u00a0was an elite\u00a0athlete – she\u00a0HAS to\u00a0know how bogus the “big ‘n bulky” myth<\/a> is.\u00a0 Yet, instead of dismissing it as physiological nonsense,\u00a0she reinforced it in the process of reassuring her female viewers.\u00a0 WTF???<\/p>\n

Yeah, I\u00a0know it’s GMA, for heaven’s sakes, and\u00a0Ms. Nyad’s now\u00a0a businesswoman promoting\u00a0workout DVDs, but I still found this depressing.\u00a0\u00a0She\u00a0was in a great position to deflate this BS for thousands of women, and she simply blew it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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