JJ Virgin
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7 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 1 Mar
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I'm just going to do 100 repetitions with a pink dumbbell. It's just silliness. But I realized hearing this over and over, I don't want to get big. I thought, you know what? Get big. What if it's time for you to get big, show up bigger in every part of your life? I remember early on working with a client and she was getting so strong and so powerful and her husband convinced her she had to quit.
because it was threatening him. Wow. So you know how the way you do one thing is the way you do everything. I see working out transferring to every part of your life. When you go to the gym and you work out, what you're doing is you're doing things that are hard and you're showing your body, see, I can do things that are hard and I can get stronger.
And then that transfers into every other part of your life.
Well, thank you very much. I took a personality test, and I am a simplifier. Really? Oh, which one? Which one did you take? I forget which one this one was. Like, usually all the ones all say the same thing, but this was a totally different test, and it gave four different ways people behave in business, and I'm a simplifier. And I go, that's absolutely true.
Almost. Well, truthfully, I started teaching calisthenics... And tap dance in high school. So if you count the calisthenics in high school, it's over 40. Wow.
It's only been all I've ever done is health and wellness. Like I was catering, but healthy food catering. You know, I did want to be an actress, but then I, you know, switched off of that.
I've always loved exercise and nutrition, like always, from when I was 12. I mean, actually, you know, I started dance class at three in acrobatics. I've always loved it.
I'll tell you what, I love the fact that Brian Johnson's spending $2 million a year to find out that diet, exercise, sleep, and good relationships are what make you healthy and extend your lifespan. I was like, no duh. And When you get down to it, moving and eating and sleeping are the things. Like they're the things.
And I was just at this really cool conference this weekend, Eudaimonia, and someone asked me, you know, because my buddy Dave has been out saying that you can like hack your exercise to 20 minutes a week or something ridiculous. And I'm like, no, you can't. No, you cannot. Right. You can't hack these things because you just got to move more. It's like flossing.
So, you know, there's just certain things that you just have to do. And if anything, as we get more and more into this, I feel like exercise used to be this kind of nice to do thing. But as we move into the longevity space, it's not an optional. It is a must do thing.
I mean, you know, what could that be? And here's the thing. I think it's a hierarchy. What I see in the space that drives me bananas is that we are majoring in the minors. I'm sorry. I'm not worried about your red light therapy if you are not moving. Right. You know, you're sitting here trying to pump up your mitochondria with red light. Why don't you just do a little HIIT training?
So I think there's some things that are nice to have, but there are some foundational things that it is so clear that we need to have. And like when you come down to it, it's having skeletal muscle, That's high quality. It's strong. It's powerful. It's having a great heart that you've pushed by doing high-intensity interval training.
And it's moving more all throughout the day because we were meant to move. Right. I mean, how have you changed your workouts over the years? Well, it's pretty interesting. You know, when I was in graduate school, we were taught, I kid you not, we were taught, do not have people lift weights until they lose the weight.
Now, I was paying my way through graduate school as one of those first personal trainers. And what I quickly discovered was they weren't going to get any better unless they had them lifting weights. Like nothing was changing. Weights are like your metabolic spanks that holds everything in tighter, gets you insulin sensitive, boosts your metabolism. So I just ignored.
And most of my professors were like overweight, which I thought bizarre and made no sense, right? Especially when you got in the nutrition department. The exercise department, not as much as the nutrition department. And then in the nutrition department, I was taught that you could get everything you needed from a potato. From women that literally look like potatoes.
I'm like, how are we going to get optimal protein from that potato right there? Now, if we're on Mars and this is all we have, OK, fine. But other than that, I think we can do better. So I literally way back then, everything was about cardio. And at first I was doing loads and loads of cardio. And then I did a massive flip. early on into resistance training and high-intensity interval training.
And I never looked back, mainly because I hate doing endurance cardio. It's not fun. It takes up a lot of time. But in my 20s, I was doing a lot of it and a lot of resistance training. And what's interesting is I have more muscle. I'm stronger now than I was in my 20s because I was doing loads of cardio and loads of resistance training.
I dumped a lot of the cardio, flipped it into high-intensity interval training. I, you know, walk and rock. And I'm now, you know, more ripped than I am now than I was then.
You want steroids?
So I'm 60 wonderful. 60 wonderful, okay. 60 wonderful. And I'm an open book. I'll tell you everything I'm doing. I've been on hormone replacement therapy from the moment my hormones started to shift. And here's what was super cool about that. So when I was on Dr. Phil, he had a little chapter in his book called Weight Loss Resistance, and I thought, what a concept.
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