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JJ Virgin

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Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

If you're doing cardio, you have to keep doing it all the time. It's like you're making money and spending, living on paycheck to paycheck versus having a great bank account and you're just living off the interest. having the great bank account is having a lot of muscle. Living paycheck to paycheck is just doing cardio. So it's been really clear for a long time that this is the way to go.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And I have been fighting this silliness for now 40 years. And I cannot believe it's still out there that when you talk about muscle, the biggest thing I hear is I don't want to get big. And I'll tell you, I mean, for years I've been saying, hey, you know, do you know what it takes for a woman to put on one to two pounds of muscle a month? It is a fight. Even a man.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And I have been fighting this silliness for now 40 years. And I cannot believe it's still out there that when you talk about muscle, the biggest thing I hear is I don't want to get big. And I'll tell you, I mean, for years I've been saying, hey, you know, do you know what it takes for a woman to put on one to two pounds of muscle a month? It is a fight. Even a man.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And I have been fighting this silliness for now 40 years. And I cannot believe it's still out there that when you talk about muscle, the biggest thing I hear is I don't want to get big. And I'll tell you, I mean, for years I've been saying, hey, you know, do you know what it takes for a woman to put on one to two pounds of muscle a month? It is a fight. Even a man.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Right. So you look at it and go, you know, lose up to 1% of your body weight, body fat, body weight, really, a week, and putting on one to two pounds of muscle a month. That's like Herculean. And people are afraid they're going to get too big. And the only time I've had a client get big is when they quit and decide to sit on the couch and eat. That's when you'll get big.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Right. So you look at it and go, you know, lose up to 1% of your body weight, body fat, body weight, really, a week, and putting on one to two pounds of muscle a month. That's like Herculean. And people are afraid they're going to get too big. And the only time I've had a client get big is when they quit and decide to sit on the couch and eat. That's when you'll get big.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Right. So you look at it and go, you know, lose up to 1% of your body weight, body fat, body weight, really, a week, and putting on one to two pounds of muscle a month. That's like Herculean. And people are afraid they're going to get too big. And the only time I've had a client get big is when they quit and decide to sit on the couch and eat. That's when you'll get big.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Muscles, metabolic spanks, it holds everything in tighter, boosts your metabolism. It's not going to make you bigger. And by the way, if you did say, oh my gosh, I'm getting bigger, you could stop. That would be it. But they'll say, I want your arms. I go, do you know what I do? Like, this is a lot of muscle. This is not toning. Like this idea of toning.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Muscles, metabolic spanks, it holds everything in tighter, boosts your metabolism. It's not going to make you bigger. And by the way, if you did say, oh my gosh, I'm getting bigger, you could stop. That would be it. But they'll say, I want your arms. I go, do you know what I do? Like, this is a lot of muscle. This is not toning. Like this idea of toning.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Muscles, metabolic spanks, it holds everything in tighter, boosts your metabolism. It's not going to make you bigger. And by the way, if you did say, oh my gosh, I'm getting bigger, you could stop. That would be it. But they'll say, I want your arms. I go, do you know what I do? Like, this is a lot of muscle. This is not toning. Like this idea of toning.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And then that transfers into every other part of your life.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And then that transfers into every other part of your life.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And then that transfers into every other part of your life.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 415:JJ Virgin's Powerful Aging Secrets: Muscle, Metabolism, GLP-1 and Fitness Habits

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.