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Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

KIR with Jillian Michaels Hot Takes: How Often Should I Work Out?

Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Nutrition

4.14.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Jillian discusses how much you should be hitting the gym. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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keeping it real with Jillian Michael's.

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That's all this question is pretty simple and straightforward.

0:10.0

How often should I work out? This question is pretty simple and straightforward.

0:12.8

How often should I work out?

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I'm going to give you a generalization here,

0:17.6

and that generalization is based on the pretense

0:20.7

that you mean for overall fitness. If it's weight loss, I would say, well, how quickly do you

0:25.2

want to lose the weight? And I would do these types of exercises more than those types of exercises.

0:31.1

If you want to gain muscle, it's also kind of a different conversation, and for that I would always look to a bodybuilder, somebody who specializes in gaining muscle.

0:39.0

And the reason I say that is because it's kind of like going to see a cardiologist if you have a problem with your foot.

0:45.2

He would see a podiatrist. And as much as a trainer seems to be this umbrella of fitness. I really do you believe at least personally from myself

0:56.2

that Treirs sub-specialized. Some of us are great at one thing and not another. I know a hell of a lot about weight loss and getting fit by

1:05.3

don't training performance athletes. Could I mean yeah but there are people that are a lot better, right? Same thing with

1:12.4

bodybuilding. I'm not a bodybuilder, so I haven't studied it and read everything on it and put myself through the paces and clients through the paces to have years of anecdotal evidence of what works and what dozens.

1:24.4

So even something specific you're wondering about.

1:29.1

Endurance races, bodybuilding, rehabilitation, see the relevant professional who is a specialist in that space.

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If you're thinking, well Jill, what are you a specialist and I'm great at weight loss. I'm great at making people generally

1:46.8

fit, taking weight off people, that's what I'm good at. So for fitness and I'm also great longevity because I'm passionate about those things, right?

1:54.8

So for leaving a long and healthy life getting good checks, all greens at the doctor's office,

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this is what I would recommend. I'm going to give you my

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minimum and my optimal, all right? And I want you to engage in three different

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types of training. So walking, which, I mean, we cannot accomplish this with a step

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