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JJ Virgin

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.