It's a miniseries on Discovery Health where ordinary out-of-shape people are put in a situation of responding to some emergency such as rescuing a loved one who has had a boating accident, escaping a wildfire etc. Last night was the boating accident one where they had to swim 100 yards to a 75-pound dummy in the water, get themselves and the dummy onto a floating dock, paddle a kayak 300 yards and run 150 yards to get help and they all struggled and took much longer than the 8 minutes and 30 seconds target time. The idea then was to have the team of trainers work with them for a month, get them into shape and have them re-try the challenge but only one stuck with the program (and he passed the second time). I found the premise of the show interesting and wonder if thinking of fitness in terms of being prepared for emergencies might motivate more people to get into shape--what do you think? I was honestly appalled at how poorly the three people on last night's episode did (and hope I would do better!).