540. Build Your Body to Last a Lifetime with JJ Virgin
Commune with Jeff Krasno
Commune Media
4.6 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Balance Weekend Retreat with Schuyler Grant & Jeff Krasno in Topanga, CA, April 5-7, 2024.
This weekend retreat is all about practices that cultivate balance in your life. This will include movement (yoga and hiking), focusing the mind (meditation and breathwork), hot and cold therapy (ice plunge and sauna), and enjoying time together in community. Go to onecommune.com/retreat for more info.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Okay, I'll begin with a controversial statement. |
| 0:15.3 | We should outlaw the traditional scale. What? I thought America has an obesity epidemic. |
| 0:23.0 | Well, that may be true, but my guest on today's podcast claims that weight is not an |
| 0:29.6 | accurate measurement of overarching health. |
| 0:33.4 | Today on the show, I welcome JJ Virgin. |
| 0:36.3 | JJ is a triple board certified nutrition expert, |
| 0:39.3 | a New York Times bestselling author, and a fitness OG Hall of Famer. Now, the number that you |
| 0:46.3 | see on a traditional scale is misleading because you can add muscle and lose fat and see your body weight increase. But of course, that's okay |
| 0:58.8 | because we should not be focusing solely on body weight. We should be focusing on body |
| 1:05.5 | composition. Now, last year, I lost, as many of you know, 60 pounds. I went from about 200 to 140. But along |
| 1:14.8 | with that weight loss, I also lost a tremendous amount of muscle. Following JJ's protocols, |
| 1:22.5 | I've now put on about 20 pounds of mostly muscle. And I'm at a fairly ideal body weight and stronger than I've |
| 1:30.8 | ever been at 53. So in our conversation, JJ reveals the secrets for how to maintain or lose weight |
| 1:39.4 | while also gaining muscle. And a lot of this comes down to balancing protein consumption, |
| 1:46.7 | calorie intake, and resistance training. So here are some of the big ideas that we explore. |
| 1:52.8 | How to age not gracefully, but powerfully. How much protein we should eat, especially in our first |
| 2:00.5 | meal of the day. Why getting a certain |
| 2:03.4 | amount of essential amino acids like leucine is essential for muscle protein synthesis. We discuss the |
| 2:10.9 | role of amino acid supplements and of creatine. I take about five grams every day. And I love this framing that JJ has. We should not |
| 2:20.9 | be training to be better at training. We should be training to be better at life. And how does that |
| 2:28.5 | translate in the gym? Okay. But before we dive in, I'm so grateful to those of you who write us reviews on Apple Podcasts |
| 2:35.6 | that we've created a special offer for you, 30 days of free Commune membership. |
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