Red team heads out at what does not at all look like 6am.
They’re all looking and sounding very nervous about what the Commando was going to do to them.
Munnalita the genius presumes it was going to have something to do with the Army?

Read on to find out all the details!

Steve Willis is an ex-Army commando with 10 years service, so he’s not just a poser who plays at being a commando, he’s been there and he’s done that! “Have I killed anyone before? Nah, I can’t tell you that.”
Toughest thing about being a Commando is the mental aspect, physically you get pushed to the edge and you need the mental toughness to keep going, according to Steve.
He’s a very old school trainer, not like others, he likes to use training techniques that have been proven to work, so expect a lot of military style exercises and boot camp techniques.
“My motto is you were born into this world not to find yourself, but to create yourself.”

Everyone on the Red team expresses how scared they are… Except Greg, “I’m sore, is all!”

“Best of luck, Red team, you’re going to need it!” someone on Blue says, as Steve is packing the Red team away into his black Hummer.
“I hope this commando punishes the Red team so hard that they can’t walk for five days, that way we’re sure to win the weigh-in!”

Shannan arrives to ask the Blues how the challenge went and he was very happy with Michael’s 2 hour marathon effort.
He thinks Michael has started to turn himself around and he thinks it’s because he’s now lost Kelly and has alienated the rest of the team, so now he needs to sort of work his way back into the group again.
Mel fluffs Shannan’s ego a bunch by saying they didn’t care about missing out on the Commando, because they have Shannan!

Commando Steve has taken the Red team off to a state forest somewhere.
First thing he asks them to do? Put their bags down. Too slow! Now get down and give him 5 pushups!
He puts them through some squats after that, but doesn’t really push them too hard yet.
What he plans on doing is putting them through the obstacle course, breaking them down physically, pushing them to the point where they think they can’t do it anymore, to show them it’s not just the physical body that can be pushed, but their brains too.

Next bit is he kicks the wheel off a nearby trailer… And the other wheel is flat. Gets them to load the trailer up with a bunch of logs, then carry the trailer down to the river.
At first they do very poorly, not working very well together, but eventually they start pulling together as a team.

Then, “He had us sit down in the river? And it was quite cold?” – Munnalita
They each have a section of log which Commando Steve gets them to hold against their chest, then lie back, and sit up again.
Next is getting them one at a time out into the middle of the river to do squats with their log above their head, dunking their head under water each squat. This made them focus on their breathing, as well as got them all thoroughly soaked – adding to the weight they’re carrying around. Sneaky!
Got them to carry their logs up and over a tire pile at the side of the river.

After that he took them off to another “uneven area” as Marty called it, to do some bridge exercises and pushups and so on.
“No Sydney Harbour bridges here!” Commando Steve decrees, as Marty starts poking his bum up in the air to relieve the pressure a bit.
Marty backchats to Steve by telling him, “You put on 70 kilos and do it!”

Uh oh!

Steve starts to sit himself down on Marty and Marty blows up, telling him he doesn’t know about his knee injury and pushes him off, eventually they go chest to chest… just as we have an ad break.
Marty gives him a shove after the break. Telling him about his cartilage problems and he’s supposed to be taking it a bit easy so he doesn’t let his team down.
Commando Steve shouts at him some more when he eventually gets back down and does his exercises. He doesn’t punish him with some more exercise.

Next target. Courtney! Hooray!
Courtney gets a bit backchatty too, then he slacks off during the exercises as usual… Steve’s having none of that and makes the whole team start the exercise over from the start!

Eventually the team starts actually working as a team – something Greg has deluded himself into thinking they’ve been doing all along. But now they’re looking out for each other and calling out encouragement and so on.
Steve has them marching up the river with logs on their shoulders again, asking them if they’re a team, “Yes!”, what team, “The Red Team!”

By God I think they’re finally getting it!

“Time to go back to the house, alright?”
Marty proves once again that he’s a good guy, once it’s over he immediately sticks his hand out to Steve and shakes his hand to show there’s no hard feelings and he didn’t mean to be an ass, etc. The rest of the Reds shake his hand as well.
Marty also says that they all thought that if they had the chance to do it again, they all would, because he’s sure it’s going to have given them an edge.

Ahhh, temptation day at last!
Marty thinks the chocolate fountain was a water feature at first!
All the Fatties give a collective “Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!” Ajay’s eyes light up in glee.

There’s a collection of food on sticks for them to choose between, with calorie values ranging from a mere 2 calories.. to 140!
Choose any food, dip it in at least 25 calories worth of chocolate, and eat it all up.
The contestant with the most spears in their cup at the end of the challenge will win immunity!

If no one plays, Gerard will keep his immunity.
Michael immediately says that he thinks Gerard took it a bit easy last weekend due to his having immunity and he didn’t want to let Gerard keep the immunity.

The time limit is an hourglass’ sand. So long as the sand is flowing, the challenge is still on.
As soon as the challenge begins, virtually all of the Fatties sit down and don’t take part. Crazy!
27 calories, people!

Suddenly Marty starts crawling around on the floor, whispering in the ears of Red team members. Blue team is left wondering what in the hell is going on.
We get subtitles!
“Do we prefer them to have the walk and the power, or us to have the power?”
Pati agrees and puts her hand up to eat a piece of chocolate coated celery.
Michael also steps forward at this point though.
Mel is kind of annoyed by Michael stepping forward as it goes against everything he’s been saying for the last week!

Most Reds aren’t too surprised Michael had a go, but he was eating very slowly, Pati getting through 4 before he’s done with 3. And to everyone’s bafflement, he doesn’t even make an effort to speed up. “I thought Michael, why the hell did you go up?” – Gerard

Pati is holding 5 skewers. Michael still only holds 3.
Pati wins immunity!
She’s very happy with it, as it shows how strong the Red team is, as it was a team decision for someone to do it.

Gerard reiterates that Michael would have been better off going earlier and going harder.

Michael seems to have dug himself into an even deeper hole than he was before. Can he redeem himself in the eyes of his team?

And tomorrow on The Biggest Loser, we finally get to see Pati going on The Walk as they sneakily teased us a week ago!
And there’s a big choice involved, which Damien doesn’t feel is at all fair.
What is it? Stay tuned tomorrow… Or read the post before this one about the rumoured result. (Please don’t discuss the rumour in this post, go to the other one!)