JJ Virgin
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 1 Mar
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Well, and you don't get enough from eggs. You have to do eggs plus egg whites.
Well, you could, but you're going to get a lot. Think about it. Each egg, depending on the size of the egg, is maybe six grams of protein.
Probably need a couple more egg whites, maybe another, at least another egg white.
I don't like to eat like eggs or dairy. When I did all of the food sensitivity testing that drove me to write the Virgin Diet, the like, and I looked at so many, so many food sensitivity tests. And then I talked to the head of the lab and I'm like, I see number one, eggs and dairy, eggs and dairy, eggs and dairy, eggs and dairy. Number two was corn, soy, peanuts.
You know, gluten is another type of test. So where you might see wheat, you're really looking at gluten. Gluten drives gut permeability anyway. You know, I just think it's something we have to be careful about getting into the every day, every day, every day with that. We've got to rotate these things, which is hard because it's so easy to get into a breakfast habit.
Like of all the things like I know I do for dinner every night and it's super easy, but we rotate. But breakfast, it's like who wants to think about it?
You know what? I think there's some great things with oatmeal. I don't think it's peasant food, but I don't feel good when I do it. Like I love oatmeal, but I could have like maybe a half a cup and then have the other stuff. But I find that I feel best...
When I eat mainly protein with some fat in the morning, you know, like take that yogurt, throw in some freshly ground flaxseed meal, something like that. And then I go off to the gym with my essential aminos and my creatine and my electrolytes. And then... I come back and generally I'll have protein and carbs as my lunch. So whatever we make for dinner, we always make a bunch of.
And if we ended up like plowing through all of our protein we made for dinner, we always have some grass fed ground beef that we can make up. So like today at lunch, I had grass fed beef patties and blackberries and blueberries. Oh, I love that.
So I either go upstairs because I have an amazing gym that I created upstairs or I go to the gym. My husband likes to go to the gym. He likes the whole thing. I'm pretty self-guided so I can do whichever. If I'm going to do my high intensity functional training, generally I'll do that as more exercise snacks throughout the day.
But if I'm doing it as actual workout, then, you know, I like to do that at home because I would look like a freak at the gym doing it. What are you doing? Tell me what you're doing. What does it look like? So it's so funny. So for Eudaimonia Summit, they're like, we'd love you to teach an exercise class. And I'm thinking to myself, I've not taught an exercise class since for 25 years.
Okay, I'll do it. And then I was like, what the heck am I going to teach? And with no weights, you know, because I was like, I'll teach how to, you know, an upper body workout. I couldn't because there were no weights. So what I taught was high intensity functional training, right?
So it's doing HIIT where we know we could do HIIT with sprinting or running upstairs, but this is functional movements like mountain climbers or burpees or jumping jacks or air jumps, squats, jumps, right? So it's functional movements, right? done in a high intensity way. So if I'm doing that stuff at home, what I like to do, I have a sprint treadmill.
So I'll do some rounds of the sprint treadmill. Then I have an exciser and I'll do overhead push pull while I'm on the exciser, which is this mini stepper. Then I'll get on and do box jumps. Then I'll do some up downs. Then I'll do some mountain climbers. And sometimes I have a power plate that they just sent me that I'm playing around with. So I'll do things, you know, jumps over that.
So I've been just, I like to mess around with all the different things. And the way I do it is I make a list of all possible stuff. And then I just start to check off because I like to, I'm very goal oriented. So I just play around and mess around with all these different things, which you wouldn't be able to do at the gym, you know?
Well, if I'm doing high intensity functional training, it depends on the way I'm trying to do it. But I mean, you know, like I did it for eudaimonia and everyone was pretty much destroyed in 20. We did 20 minutes total, but we did it in two to three minute bursts that had some intensity and then a little bit of recoveries in them. And people were just like done. Done. And then here's what's cool.
At the end of it, I learned this from Gabby Reese. She said she taught me this on This podcast we did, and I'm like, that's the smartest thing I've ever heard. I put balance training at the end because that's when I'm tired. You know, when are you going to have a problem with balance? When you're tired. I was like, oh, that's brilliant.
So I had everyone do balance stuff at the end, which we're all falling over. So- It was great.
Yeah. She's a smarty pants. Anyway, so basically it depends on what's going on. Like if I'm doing HIIT training, it may be 20 minutes, 30 minutes max. You know, if I'm doing resistance training, might be 40 minutes. Just depends. Depends what I'm doing. I like to put everything. I've got the body divided into upper body pushing, upper body pulling, and then hips and thigh exercises.
I don't, every once in a while I'll throw some core work in, but the reality is I'm doing squats and pushups and mountain climbers. So it's like my core is working.
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