Paul Plakas Answers Your Questions

Dear Paul, what is your motivation for doing X-Weighted?

It gives me a chance to do something different that I don’t normally do throughout the day. Just doing personal training 1 on 1 gets kind of boring for me, so doing the film work breaks things up for me and makes my day a little more interesting. It’s more fun.

I don’t care so much about the whole being on TV thing, but what I love is interacting with people and seeing how their story comes out, because you never quite know what’s going to happen with people.

I’m a very curious fellow, and I really like to know what people do with the information that they’re given - some people do wonderful things with it, where other people just waste it. Some people find one way of achieving their goal while other people find a different way of achieving their goal, I really like to see how they manage to do it.

Dear Paul, do you ever visit the homes of your personal training clients?

I don’t get to go into the homes of my personal training clients all the time, though I have done it occasionally. I have had my personal training clients ask me to come into their homes and do the cupboard purge with them just like I do on the show!

Dear Paul, I want to know what your chest measurement is!

When I am relaxed it is 46 inches, and when I flex is 48 inches.

Dear Paul, what typically are you most disappointed in, and what are you most proud of, in participants?

The thing I’m most proud of in a participant, is when I know in my heart that they did the best they can under the extreme obstacles that they faced. For example, I was really proud of Sharla when she did her bike ride with her daughter. She ended up meeting her weight-loss goal and gave her best effort, at the same time as trying to raise her physically challenged daughter and another daughter as a single parent. I am so proud of people when they achieve their goals under harsh conditions.

What disappoints me is pretty much the complete opposite: when people have it easy, and come onto the show and don’t put in their best effort, and therefore waste the opportunity that they have been given. They are basically taking up the space that somebody else could have had, and done better with.

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