Fitness trainer 'The Commando', Steve Willis, at the Biggest Loser 2013 house / Pic: Kristi Miller Source: The Daily Telegraph
BIGGEST Loser fitness trainer "The Commando" says Australians are spoiling their children to death - literally killing them with kindness.
The former army man, whose real name is Steve Willis, believes children should exercise from an early age and parents should be more disciplined when it comes to their kids' health.
"Unfortunately, with the contestants (on the weight-loss show) we have been training, the boundaries between parent and child have been blurred.
"Some of these kids we see on the show are being spoilt to death - they don't have any backbone or strength.
"You hear people talk about how their child is their best friend. A lot of the time parents want to give their child more than what they grew up with.
"We have softened in our approach and we have negated boundaries and rules which are enforced from an early age."
Willis, who has three children, Brianna, 14, Ella, 5, and Jack, 18 months, says his older children started exercising as part of their lifestyle when they were young.
He believes "tough love" for Australian parents isn't tough enough, and they should be providing leadership, not friendship.
"At an early age, kids aren't craving opportunity, they are craving discipline and leadership.
"They are being spoilt to death. My older children were in the gym from an early age, they saw that as normal, exercising, getting out into the parks, just living life outside the lounge room."
The Biggest Loser: The Next Generation has parent-and-child teams go head to head in the battle against the bulge.
Willis can't remember the last time he ate fast food, saying it was years ago.
He blames the spread of computer-based social interaction for a lack of activity in children and teenagers, and says being stuck in front of a screen can also impair their mental development as well.
"A lot of kids now, what is normal for them is getting on computers and locking themselves away from experiences and becoming introverted.
"When they need to socialise, they are very one dimensional. Exercise is all about sharing in the good times and the bad times.
"You become a more well-rounded human being for it."
As the man responsible for whipping the contestants into shape on the Channel 10 show, Willis, 36, says he intends to take a softer approach this year: "I am still that character and methodology still stands. But there is a reassurance for the younger ones. I am there for them and I am on their side.
"I don't want them to feel they have come into The Biggest Loser and they have experienced bullying. That's not my style."
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