JJ Virgin
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first heard Nov 2024
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And women anyway, when you really look at it, women, you know, we have two types of muscle fibers, as you know, slow twitch and fast twitch. Well, what the listener might not know is you have slow twitch, fast twitch, and then you have these fibers in between. We used to call them
type 2b fibers i now think they're called x basically of these fibers that are more that are better for long for endurance for there are things we use all throughout the day those are our slow twitch muscle fibers and they're the ones that we're just going to use to stand upright postural easy walking etc then we have our fast twitch muscle fibers that's explosive move fast heavy things
They're exhausted quickly. And then you have these ones in between and they can become slow or they can become fast. And I thought, you know, when you really look at what happens as we age, we start to lose more fast twitch muscle fibers. Well, women have more oxidative, more slow twitch muscle fibers to begin with. That's why we're more metabolically flexible. We can recover easier. But
We also tend to do more slow twitch muscle fiber activities. We're doing more walking. We're doing more, you know, Pilates, more yoga. And not to diss on these things, but the problem is we're now taking the fibers that could have been more powerful and turning them into slower fibers.
And so I looked at this, I'm like, you know, if you really want to age powerfully, if you look at what happens as we start to age, starting around age 30 is we're losing, starting to lose muscle. Muscle is actually not the biggest problem. We're losing muscle. And I believe that, you know, everyone's worried about bone mineral density, but really that's a lagging indicator that we lost muscle.
But we lose twice as much strength and three times as much power. Strength is how much you could move something heavy one time. Power is how quickly can you move something. So I thought, you know, what we really need to focus on as we age, as aging powerfully, is building strength. Not just building muscle, but building quality muscle, powerful muscle.
And as I started to look at that, I went, you know, this is actually really a bigger thing than that. It's kind of a manifesto because women our whole lives, just like I told you the story about the modeling agency, we're always taught to be small, to be skinny, to be, you know, right?
I thought this really, like the goal, and I saw an interview by Jennifer Aniston recently, and she said, I'm trying to pack on as much muscle as possible. Our goal our whole life as women should be to pack on as much muscle as possible, right? To be as powerful as possible, because the more you can put on in your 20s and 30s and 40s, the better off you're going to be in your 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Mm-hmm. The powerful aging started with a let's really build those fast twitch muscle fibers and then kind of turned into a bigger manifesto of, you know, if you don't step up now in your life, when are you going to do it? What, you're going to wait until you're 80? Right.
I've been running into that hurdle since, you know, I started taking people to the gym in the 80s.
Right.
I mean, forever, that has been a thing. And literally, you look at it and go, gosh, if you can put on a half pound of muscle a month, you're in good shape. And so people are worried about getting bulky. I go, you know, what's so awesome about lifting weights is if you decided that you were like overnight, you would like this drive by muscle mass gain, which I've never seen happen.
But let's say you said, oh, wow, I'm gaining too much muscle. You would just stop.
Right.
You could just stop. So I will say in 40 years of helping people put on muscle, I've never had someone get too big. Never. It's never happened. Muscles, metabolic spanks, it holds everything in tighter. It helps you burn fat. It helps you become more insulin sensitive, along with a whole host of other things. The only time I've had people get too bulky is when they're not lifting weights, right?
Right. They're not eating their protein. They're not lifting weights. They're sitting on the couch. You want to get big, sit on the couch. Yeah, right. That's how you can get big. It's not going to be you at the gym. Trust me.
It takes a ton. When I decided, you know, to get super fired up for 60 and to prove a point, I was so sick of hearing this like, you know, it's a downhill slide. I'm like, all right, well, what if it's not? I thought, you know, I'm going to get in the best shape of my life for 60. I hadn't done a DEXA body scan since 39. And so I actually trained for it.
I upped my calories because I was like, if you really want to focus on putting on muscle, if it's your number one goal, you're better off just doing that, upping your calories, not a ton, but some, and doing that. And I literally did. It was a little bit of a mental game because I was like, all right, you're doing this on purpose, right?
But I went in and my DEXA scan at 39 and at 59 were exactly the same. Same muscle, same fat-free mass, same fat mass, same weight. And then I knew what I'd been in my 20s. And because I put this on, I now ripped down. I did a cutting phase and went straight down to where I'd been in my 20s. But the cool thing is I'm actually stronger than I was in my 20s. Wow. And so it's possible.
Like it is possible to do these things. Well, plus in my 20s, I wasn't taking creatine. I wasn't taking MitoPure. Like there's all sorts of things. I wasn't doing the level of protein that I'm doing. So I was like going, all right, I know so much more now. than I did then. I mean, I was afraid to take creatine back then because the bros did it.
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