JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

Get In The BEST SHAPE Of Your Life After 40

29 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this solo motivational monologue, JJ Virgin challenges common misconceptions about aging and fitness, especially for women over 40. She cites Dr. Gabrielle’s book to argue that longevity and a high‑quality life depend on maintaining strength, which in turn requires building and preserving muscle mass. Virgin emphasizes that realistic muscle gain is slow—about a pound per month—even for dedicated individuals, and she reassures women that the fear of becoming “big” is unfounded because such rapid hypertrophy is unlikely. Her overarching goal is to keep adding muscle throughout the next several decades of life, positioning muscle as the single most important factor for a vibrant, long life.

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What if I could get in the best shape of my life at 60? What if all the stuff we hear doesn't have to be the case? I don't have to be that statistic. And what if it all came down to one thing? Who's read Dr. Gabrielle's book? It's so great. And I think this is such an important line for all of us to really take home, is that if you wanna live this amazing long life, you gotta be there for it, you gotta be strong. And how do you get strong? You have to have the muscle. And to me, My biggest goal for the next 40, 50, 60, 80 years is to continue to pack on as much muscle as humanly possible, and it is really hard, I will tell you that. Like right now, if you went home starting to think about this, you'd be lucky to put a pound of muscle on a month. So any woman that's going through her head, "I'm afraid of getting big," good luck. Just doesn't happen.