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Hey folks, I first met today's podcast guest at a health conference where I was sitting

at a table and I looked at the person who was sitting in the chair to my left, I think it was.

And then I did a double take because I realized that this woman sitting next to me had some of

the most impressively toned arms and legs that I've ever seen in my life. And I was even more

shocked when I started talking to her and found out how she actually exercises and what she does

to keep herself in such good shape. So in today's podcast she's going to spill the beans on how

she gets such amazing arms and legs and also why exercise may be a little less important than

you might think. But you may have heard of my guest before because she's pretty well known in

health and nutrition and her name is JJ Virgin. She's the author of among many other books which

I'll link to for you in the show notes over on Amazon, The Virgin Diet and some other things that

she'll be able to tell you about today. But JJ, thanks for coming on the call. Oh my pleasure.

So I guess let's just jump right in. Well first of all, I'll let people know if you want to see

a picture of JJ, I will put a link over in the show notes. You can go access them at bengreenfieldfitness.com

slash JJ. But my first question for you JJ is have you always been like this fit?

So you know I just love you when you ask questions like this and like

I mean, be impossible to deal with the rest of the day. So here's the cool answer to this. And I

don't know if if you know how old I am and I actually use it as a marketing opportunity because

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