To reach the finals of “La Isla: Desafío Extremo,” it is not enough to be in good physical condition; it is essential to have mental strength that allows you to overcome the most difficult obstacles. This is what Javier Poza, host of the Telemundo reality show, which recently premiered a new season, said.
Poza has been at the helm of the show since its inception, watching as several entertainment and television stars struggle under chaotic circumstances. The Mexican emphasizes that, although the physical challenges are intense, what really makes the difference is the mental strategy that each participant adopts to face the tests.
“I love challenges”Poza said in a recent interview with La Opinión. “And I know that all the people who are participating in this program are also these types of characters. They like to challenge themselves, they like to get out of their comfort zone, they like to live new adventures.“.
For Poza, the real challenge lies in the participants’ mental ability to adapt and endure, rather than their physical strength. “The challenge is more mental, more mental than physical”added Poza, who is currently in Türkiye, the country where the program is being recorded. “Of course, the physical aspect plays an important, fundamental role, but I think that the mental aspect is what weighs most heavily in the development of the program.”
This season of The Island: Extreme Challenge The contest features 24 contestants, including Gisella Aboumrad, Natalia Alcocer, Chuy Almada, Carmen Aub and Sebastián Caicedo, who will compete for a prize of $200,000 in extreme conditions. According to Poza, the transformation experienced by the participants is remarkable. “Day by day, week by week, these 24 personalities, who have been participating from the beginning, are transformed. They are all very different, and their personalities change according to the characteristics of their own competition, their own challenge, but also of living together and what it means to travel to a country like Turkey, far from your family, far from any contact with the outside world, facing a language that is not your own, an extremely volatile climate. In any case, that is where the real extreme challenge lies.”Poza stressed.
What stands out this season is the contestants’ ability to adapt, as they must face extreme conditions, not only physically, but also emotionally and psychologically. It is not so much the physical competition, but the way or the ability that everyone has to adapt to the day-to-day life on this journey, on this route that we are taking through this extraordinary country that is Turkey.
The reality show divides contestants into three teams: Eagles, Sharks, and Panthers. Each week, these teams compete in a territory challenge, which determines the contestants’ living conditions for that week. The winners enjoy Upper Beach, with every imaginable comfort: a mansion, chef-prepared meals, comfortable beds, and hot water. In contrast, the teams occupying Middle Beach must make do with few comforts: a roof, beds, and a decent bathroom, albeit with limited food and drink. Finally, the losers are forced to survive on Lower Beach, without any luxuries, sleeping on the ground, in sleeping bags, with no hot water or bathroom, and must light their own fire to cook.
Poza, aware of the appeal of these programs to the public, points out that identification with the personalities of the program is key to its success. “The public likes these programs because, in some way, they can identify with some of the personalities who participate in them. Probably, many people who watch us have the dream of being able to make a trip like the one we are making in a country like this, or, I don’t know, dare to do things that these figures do. In some way I think they identify with the various personalities they see in this type of program, because, in addition, it makes these personalities go out of that framework, let’s say, of a famous, unattainable, untouchable, perfect, immaculate person.”he said.
For Poza, the key to the success of “La Isla: Desafío Extremo” lies in showing the stars in their most human aspect. “Here everything is less than that. They have to become people who stand up, ordinary people, facing everything that they have to face in a challenge like the island. So, I think that is what attracts the general public, that they feel identified with the characters, and have the possibility of seeing their favorite stars, who suddenly appear on television, just as they are, as they are people who stand up, ordinary people. I think that is where the success of programs like this lies. I hope that this is one of them.”
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