Your Ancestral Responsibility to Strong w/ Jen Widerstrom — Barbell Shrugged #370
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Jen Widerstrom (@jenwiderstrom) is a personal trainer and fitness model. She is well known for her role of a trainer in the NBC's long-running and hit series The Biggest Loser, replacing Jillian Michaels where she worked as a body coach and guided the participants through a well-planned exercise regime and also provided the required emotional support to them during their journey to a fitter body. Jen worked with the popular faces including Bob Harper and Jessie Pavelka.
In the year 2008, Jen got an opportunity to work in American Gladiators, in the character of the female gladiator Phoenix for its second season. The show helped her to change the course of life. It was an amazing experience which helped to boost the brilliant athlete career. She also got the chance to play crazy games and compete with the other contestants. After she left the show, she again focused her career as a fitness trainer and improved her skills by adding Pilates and CrossFit to her workout.
In addition to her fitness, Jen is devoted towards charity. She has been on Goodwill Military Tours to raise troops' morale and has volunteered at orphanages and schools, helping kids find self-confidence through sports and gymnastics. Recently in 2017, Jen published a book named Diet Right for Your Personality Type: The Revolutionary 4-Week Weight-Loss Plan That Works for You.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, Jen discusses her time on American Gladiator and The Biggest Loser, Leaving a lineage of strength for the world, body image and understanding the body positive movement, and helping women embrace strength training.
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- Anders and Doug
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| 0:00.0 | Park Family, it's Saturday, Saturday shrug. We're back hanging out with Jen Weederstrum. |
| 0:06.3 | We met up with her at Strong New York, at Solis New York, and let me tell you something. |
| 0:13.4 | When Jen Weederstrum walks in a room, it's like the lights get a little brighter. Everyone's having |
| 0:20.9 | a little bit more fun. There's a whole lot of personality that just walked in. And if you've ever |
| 0:26.6 | wondered why was Jen Weederstrum so successful on the biggest loser, then you meet her in person, |
| 0:33.9 | and you go, oh of course, it's because she's so awesome. She makes everyone's life better |
| 0:39.8 | as soon as she walks in the room. Such a fantastic human. This interview is super cool. |
| 0:45.7 | I've never really gotten the full story behind Jen and all the things that motivate her, |
| 0:51.6 | and make her such an awesome trainer. And even cooler, she's going to be a lot of poloza |
| 0:59.6 | with us. We're going to be hanging out at the Fid-Aid booth. She's coming down. She's going to |
| 1:04.8 | be running workouts, not with Fid-Aid doing her own thing. She's going to be competing a little bit, |
| 1:10.3 | but she's going to be hanging out with us, with the barbell shrug crew, me, dog, Ryan Fisher, |
| 1:16.8 | and it's going to be super fun. We're probably going to have her co-host, and I'm really excited |
| 1:22.4 | about it. You, if you want to hang out with Jen Weederstrum, can get over to the new UAP, |
| 1:29.7 | in EOYOUAP. She has all of her workouts on there, and not just the workouts, but all the cool, |
| 1:38.1 | littered Jen Weederstrum motivational pieces. And look, she just launched this new UAP, or her workout |
| 1:47.8 | platform on the new UAP. And she's already in the top four trainers in the world on this app. |
| 1:56.2 | That's incredible. There's a lot of trainers on that app, and for her to only have released |
| 2:00.3 | this a couple of weeks ago, and to already be in the top four trainers in the world, it's pretty |
| 2:06.4 | impressive. So you can go over there, all the workouts are streaming live, and all the motivational |
| 2:11.3 | components. But if you ever were thinking, man, it'd be cool to be on the biggest loser and |
| 2:16.0 | hang out with Jen Weederstrum, now she's going to be streaming right into your household. You can |
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