JJ Virgin
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1,112 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 1 Mar
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Then you got, and you have to use a food scale and you have to use a biome or a little chronometer app. So I use a food scale and an app to make sure that you got it. So that is jjvirgin.com forward slash protein burst. And then I just launched at Eudaimonia a snack challenge.
So it's 10 minutes, 10 days, 10 minutes to win it, a snack challenge where I take them through the things that they can do for 10 days. Because I figure if you do it for 10 days, like I don't believe that it's 21 days to do a habit, like where'd that urban legend come from? Like just get used to doing it and be amazed how you feel. So that one's JJVirgin.com forward slash snack challenge.
But again, I'm like- I love that. Simple, actionable things that we can do that will make- they'll move the needle, right?
Well, we're going to do our business one.
I am thrilled to be here.
You know what?
So I've always been interested in it. And then I got very into diet. This is really actually horrible, but it was a turning point great thing. Because being six feet tall, I kept hearing, oh, you should be a model. So I grew up outside of San Francisco. I went to a modeling agency in San Francisco. And they told me, and by the way, I weigh the same now as I did then.
So they told me I needed to lose at least 20 pounds. And I remember at the time I was a teenager and literally I was in gymnastics. And so I was working out with the high school football team because there was no gym for the girls. Right. And this, you know, this agent tells me I need to lose 20 pounds. And I go home and I go to the library. I get diet books.
I start counting my calories, recording them on a calendar. And then my dance teachers thought I was anorexic. And it was a big wake up call. I remember thinking, you know, I was also running track and I just couldn't do the things that I like to do. I was too tired. Right. And I thought, gosh, well, shoot, I could either be skinny.
And, you know, here I was, I remember going to the modeling agency, looking at these girls and they were pale, wafey looking things, right?
Yeah.
And I thought, well, I could either be that or I can be strong. I cannot be both. And I just was like, forget it. I'm going to eat.
Yes.
But I got very into nutrition because it was, you know, I wanted to be at the time I wanted to be a stage actress. And so your body's like your instrument there. And I was very into nutrition and very into exercise and just always have been.
So, you know, as an exercise physiologist, I was very interested in muscle and it was interesting in graduate school. Everything we did in the exercise phys department was based on cardio. And in fact, back then, this was decades ago, we were told that you should not have a client lift weights until they lost the weight. And yeah, right? I mean, this is painful stuff.
We were also told back then that if you couldn't work out for at least 30 minutes of cardio, don't bother because you need to get into your fat burning zone and you had to blah, blah, all this crazy stuff. Well, what? A couple things happened.
Number one, I discovered pretty quickly that having people do loads of cardio didn't do anything and that I wasn't going to get paid to help people not get results. Right. And so I was taking people down to Gold's Gym in Venice in the 80s. And these women who were like, you know, I'm afraid to get big.
I'm going to say I'm going to take you down there because you're going to see 70 old women that you would die to look like. just die to look like. So I actually did my graduate work on how to build muscle, on how to build strength quickly, on resistance training. I did it on spinal lifting biomechanics. But part of that thesis was I had to build leg strength quickly. So
So I was like the rogue person in the department. But all that I was doing in the personal training world, I was one of the first personal trainers, me and Mark Sisson and Tony Horton and Body by Jake. And I was just having people lift weights and run sprints, pre-hit, pre-resistance training. But I had to get results with people.
And you're certainly not going to get results having them go walk all over the place, right? I mean, so that was my early on thing. And so as I started to look at aging, It occurred to me that really what's happening with age is that we lose our fast twitch muscle fibers.
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