As is typical of the show, the second episode of the series featured the contestants first real workout, along with the first challenge. How did everyone do? You’ll have to read on to find out!

Episode #2 Recap:

As expected, Bob chose Shannan, making the Bob/Shannan team the blue team. Leaving Jillian and Michelle together for Red!

“Let the games begin!” – Jillian
Cue Jillian getting all excited about how bad she’s going to bust the newbies up!
Then the Mistress of Pain, Jillian, started teaching Michelle how to break them down one by one.

“Ten more! Ten more! Ten more! Ten more! Ten more! Ten more!” – Jillian again. She’s really working Greg hard to start with. Highlight was when he was doing the exercise where you sort of “sit” against a wall with no chair underneath… Jillian hopped up on his legs and stood on his thighs.
Totally busting Greg’s balls on the treadmill, too. “You can only get off if you literally throw up!”

Meanwhile the others are working out on the stairmasters… And Sarah pretty much started bawling watching Jillian bust Greg’s hump. Because she’s lazy and unmotivated and doesn’t think she’ll be able to go through with it.
So Michelle took her outside to have a chat and convinced her that it’d be okay, she wouldn’t let Jillian train her. Ha!

Back to Greg and Jillian and Greg’s gone to puke-land already! And Jillian is proud that she can still make people throw up!
Greg’s comments about that were great – he was really impressed at the way Jillian went from being this evil bully lady that was trying to break him, to lovely and concerned when that was what he needed after having just puked his guts out. Be interesting to see if the others are quite so understanding…

Blue team are starting out with the old school style military calisthenics, and they’re all doing it pretty hard right from the start, though Mel seems to be coping the best. Being the lightest has its advantages I guess!
Bob’s first bunny to hammer appears to be Kelly. She said she wants to win, but Bob didn’t hear any passion in her voice so he didn’t believe her.
Bob was also shocked that Kelly is a cop, since that means she should be tough already, because she’s out there protecting our streets! Think he forgot that they’re not actually his streets. ;-)

Now we’re off to Michelle busting Marty’s balls back on the red team. Marty said he hasn’t done a pushup in 10 years… I reckon he still hasn’t!
He does seem to be doing it pretty hard. Having Michelle grinning at him like some kind of demented maniac probably didn’t help.
After he collapses for what seemed to be the 5th or 6th time, Michelle took him for a walk outside to hear his sob story and so on. Michelle told him she wants him to get his dignity back, and Marty cried some more.

And we’re back with Shannan training the blue boys. Gerard is really struggling, even more than Damien who is much bigger!
Then Shannan started training Gerard with boxing pads on, doing the sorts of things real boxers do, etc. He did alright at that, but you could tell he was right at the limit of his strength and endurance there… After a bit of a jog, Bob called out to ask if Gerard was still with them… and whoops! Down he goes! Seemed to pass out in some fashion – blackout or a dizzy spell or something, but he went down like a sack of spuds.
“Is there a dent in the lawn?” – Gerard. Ahh well, at least he has a sense of humour about it!

Then the blue team went inside to have a sit down and chat about how hard they’d worked and you could tell that Gerard was stoked with how much he’d done, despite blacking out. All this crap about how they push them too hard? Bullshit.

“This is the last time I’m going to look like a big tomato!” – Alex, on receiving his red team shirt.

Bob next brings out his team to look at a table piled full of crap, like donuts and pizza and nachos, etc. Then contrasted with the healthy table, full of fruit, vegetables and so forth.
Which of course leads to the holy bible of Bob’s weightloss – the calorie counting book!

Michelle has a black kitty on her shirt!

Red team did it a different way – Jillian and Michelle brought in a couple of bags full of groceries and went through them, getting the team to go through and pick out which things are and are not good to keep in the house.
Sadly, pineapples are not in the list!

First challenge of the series… is in a cinema? Ooookay! (And what happened to the schedule?!)
The cinema is the Cremorne Orpheum, for the trivia minded.
The challenge is to race to a specified seat and choose from two items of food on the seat, picking the one has the lowest number of calories.
Winners: Soothing Massages
Losers: Have to spend the night out in the cold – no beds, no kitchen, no gym! No fun!

“Anything that tastes good, generally is bad!” – Alex. He’s turning into a regular font of funniness! That was his advice when it came to choosing which item was likely to be lower in calories.

First race between Kelly and Sarah and surprisingly Sarah won.
First choice is between 25g of Extra Tasty Cheddar Cheese and 25g Camembert cheese: Camembert = 76 calories. Cheddar = 102 calories.
Kelly wins!
Blue 1: Red 0.

Second race between Greg and Damien. Greg tries to fake Damien out by turning around mid-dash to make Damien try and turn around too.
Second choice: Magnum Icecream or a 50g packet of chips: Chips = 255 calories Magnum = 282 calories
Damien wins!
Blue 2: Red 0.

Third race between Sam and Munnalita. Munnalita arrived much earlier and was hollering back to her team for help, giving Sam time to run up… and grab the right choice!
Third choice: peanut butter versus nutella (hazelnut spread): peanut butter = 128 calories nutella = 104 calories
Sam wins!
Blue 3: Red 0.

Fourth race between Jules and Pati. Red needs this one to stay in the game.
Fourth choice: 25g leg ham slices or 2x large vita wheat: vita wheat = 110 calories leg ham slices = 30 calories!
Jules wins!
Blue 4: Red 0! Blue wins!

And the show ends on a dramatic note with the promo for the next episode of the show, with “someone” leaving on an ambulance’s gurney… ominously covered by a sheet! I have my suspicions that that was done purely to add drama and to make it unclear exactly who it is that’s being carted off to hospital, rather than the show’s first death… But I suppose you’ll have to tune in tomorrow night to find out!