The biggest loser is a reality show organized by NBC reality television show. In this show people are told the ways of losing their weight under the guidance of trainer. Trainers in this show are very efficient and qualified. They know well about the diet structure and exercise requirements of every participant. Basically this show deals with the weight problems of people and suggests them the ways of getting thin and healthy body.

Here is given the descriptions of trainers who manage the training schedule of participants in the biggest loser contest.

Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels is a well known strength trainer and also a life coach for the Red Team on NBC’s the biggest loser. In the beginning of her career as trainer, Jillian Michaels was overweight by 50 pounds but then she decided to make a change in her life. She prefers to spend her time in telling people the effective ways of losing the weight. She has also written many books on the weight lose theory and these books have been very popular among people.

Jillian Michaels is a black belt holder in martial art. She has also been granted training certificates from the recognized certification programs in the country in the National Endurance and Strength Training Association (NESTA) and the American Fitness Association of America (AFAA). The contribution of Jillian Michaels in the field of Advanced Exercise Nutrition and Supplementation for Training and Performance is been approved by American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

Shannon Ponton

He has been in fitness industry from last fifteen years. With such a long experience Shannon Ponton believes to follow innovative approaches to fitness. He always chooses to go for new approaches so that maximum results can be achieved. He is known well for integrating a diverse range of techniques in training schedules like boxing, kickboxing, martial arts and weight training.

Michelle Bridges

She is one of the highest profile fitness trainers. Michelle Bridges is running her own fitness training and loss training centre. She always put her concentration on cardio and weight training exercises and always asks trainees to indulge in rigorous workout.

Weight Lose Tips Given By the Biggest Loser Trainers

o You should possess complete information about your physical requirements and also about your individual psychology. You should know that what kind of food is harmful for your body for keeping yourself physically balanced. Know what are the damaging element for you and also the ways of dealing with it.

o Read books on fitness and weight lose because it will provide you knowledge about many ways of maintaining fitness.

o Gain full knowledge and information about carbohydrates. There are two types of carbohydrates, one is good and other is bad. For example, whole grain breads are healthier as compared to those made with white flour.

o You should know about the metabolic rate of your body. It will assist you in knowing that how much calories you need to burn daily through exercise, for avoiding extra fat getting collected in your body.

Ekwensi one of Africa’s most prolific writers who died late last year and was buried early this year, maintained a vibrant writing activity throughout his life, publishing a collection of short stories, Cash On Delivery, his last work of fiction and completing work on his memoirs, titled, In My Time for several years on to his death. With over twenty novels, collections of stories and short novels to his name, Ekwensi’s thematic preoccupation equally covered the Nigerian Civil War from the perspective of a journalist and life in a pastoral Fulani setting in Northern Nigeria.

Ekwensi’s first published work was the novella, When Love Whispers, published in 1948, ten years before the great African novel, Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, appeared in London. He was inspired by sorrow over his unsuccessful attempt to court a young woman whose father insisted that she makes a marriage of convenience to write it. This short, light romance formed part of what became known as the Onitsha Market school of pulp fiction, and its success inspired Ekwensi to continue in that same mode.

Ekwensi had already distinguished himself by the several short stories he had written for broadcast on radio. These he later put together, within ten days, while on his way to Chelsea School of Pharmacy, London, to realize his first novel, People of the City, which Nigeria’s premier newspaper, The Daily Times, published in installments before it appeared in book form in 1954. but which was not published in the United States until 15 years later. People of the City (1954) was the first West African novel in modern style English to be published in England. It’s publication thus marked an important development in African literature with Ekwensi becoming one of the first African novelists to receive much exposure in the West and eventually the most prolific African novelist.

The fact that Cyprian Ekwensi started his writing career as a pamphleteer is reflected in the episodic nature of People of the City (1954) a collection of stories strung together but reading like a novel, in which he gives a vibrant portrait of the fast-paced life in a West African city, Lagos. People of the City which recounts the coming to political awareness of a young reporter and band leader in an emerging African country is filled with his running commentary on the problems of bribery and corruption and despotism bedeviling such states. In it and several others, Ekwensi explores the lure, thrills and challenges of urban life, and the extreme permissiveness and impersonal relationships permeating the lives of migrants to the city, where close-ties normally fostered by the extended family system of their traditional societies constitute a serious check on the deviant lifestyles that find full expression in the city.

According to, Bernth Lindfors, none of Ekwensi’s numerous works is entirely free from amateurish blots and blunders. Lindfors therefore concludes that he could not call any “the handiwork of a careful, skilled craftsman.” On his portrayal of the moral irresponsibility in city life, Bernth Lindfors, argued that “because his sinful heroines usually come to bad ends, Ekwensi can be viewed as a serious moralist whose novels offer instruction in virtue by displaying the tragic consequences of vice. But it always seems as if he is more interested in the vice than in the virtue and that he aims to titillate as well as teach.” While this view may be contested, it is undeniable that he always strove hard to reach his audience in the most immediate and intimate style. Indeed, it was to maintain this that he clung to those themes that afforded him the mass readership he so much craved

In a 1972 interview by Lewis Nkosi, Ekwensi defined his role as writer thus: “I think I am a writer who regards himself as a writer for the masses. I don’t think of myself as a literary stylist: if my style comes, that is just incidental, but I am more interested in getting at the heart of the truth which the man in the street can recognize than in just spinning words.”

Ernest Emenyonu, a Nigerian critic noted for his sympathy towards Ekwensi, charges that Ekwensi “has never been correctly assessed as a writer.”

Another sympathetic critic,the long-standing American convert to the study of African Literature, Charles Larson, describes him as one of the most prolific African writers of the twentieth century. According to Larson, Ekwensi “is probably the most widely-read novelist in Nigeria–perhaps even in West Africa–by readers whose literary tastes have not been exposed to the more complex writings of Chinua Achebe and other more skilled African novelists.”

Kole Omotoso past President of Nigerian Association of Authors and Drama professor at University of Ibadan confessed a lifelong fascination with him after reading his novelette The Yaba Round about Murder as a child, for, as he confesses, it taught him the importance of space in writing fiction. Omotoso goes on to state that Ekwensi’s major importance in Nigerian writing is because he believed in himself and ‘made us believe in ourselves.’ The pan-Africanist slant of his writings and his publications being mostly in Nigeria were found commendable. When many other African writers were in self-exile, he chose to remain in his native country, rather than live abroad where publishing opportunities are more abundant.

While some scholars discounted Ekwensi’s novels, others valued their social realism. Charles R. Larson put his work in historical perspective: “Local color is their forte, whether it be Ekwensi’s city of chaos, Lagos, or Onitsha … ; the Nigerian reader is placed for the first time in a perspective which has been previously unexplored in African fiction.”

Placing Ekwensi’s work firmly in the popular idiom, Douglas Killam explained their importance: “Popular fiction is always significant as indicating current popular interests and morality. Ekwensi’s work is redeemed (although not saved as art) by his serious concern with the moral issues which inform contemporary Nigerian life. As such they will always be relevant to Nigerian literary history and to Nigerian tradition.”