Jillian Michaels

How She Empowers Others

Jillian Michaels is best known as the strength trainer and life coach for the Black Team on NBC's hit series The Biggest Loser. The competitive weight-loss reality TV show is seen by nearly 15 million viewers every week, according to Entertainment Weekly's polls. As a motivator and role model, Jillian has a unique connection with her audience that stems from her own personal journey for wellness.

Jillian shared her team's losing secret in her debut fitness book, Winning By Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life, published by Harper Collins Press. The book presents Jillian's scientifically sound, refreshingly sensible, and personalized way of approaching weight loss and maintenance. Winning By Losing is a three-prong approach to total fitness that is based in solid psychological methods, proven scientific facts, and good old-fashioned hard work.

Jillian's second book, Making the Cut, is a highly effective 30-day diet and fitness plan designed to kick start your weight loss or help you drop those last stubborn 10 to 20 pounds once and for all. Published in April of 2007, Making the Cut shares the secrets models, celebrities, and personal trainers use when they need to look their absolute best - and delivers them in a program anyone can use. The paperback edition was released in 2008 is now a New York Times Bestseller.

In addition to her books, Jillian has also combined the best fitness training techniques with the most successful tips on nutrition to maximize home workout routines. Her brilliant routine can be found in her DVDs and in this online program. Her latest DVD, 30-Day Shred, is a high-intensity program with a 3-2-1 Interval System that combines strength training, cardio, and abs strengthening. The DVD includes three complete 20-minute workouts that increase in intensity and keep pushing viewers out of their comfort zones for maximum effectiveness.

Jillian's boundless energy and devotion to helping others enables her to be a life coach to those she trains. By imparting her unique and inspiring philosophy to her clients, stressing the integration of fitness, nutrition, and behavioral changes, Jillian empowers each one to define and reach personal goals, both physical and psychological.

Her passion for fitness training originates from 17 years of martial arts practice in Muay Thai and Akarui-Do, in which she holds a black belt. Since 1993 Jillian has held two personal training certificates from the leading certification programs in the country, the National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association (NESTA) and the American Fitness Association of America (AFAA). During that time she has helped shape and inspire the lives of millions. In addition, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has recognized Jillian for her work in Advanced Exercise Nutrition and Supplementation for Training and Performance.

Jillian's dynamic approach emphasizes strength-training modalities that can be transferred from the gym to daily life. Jillian's intense and effective technique incorporates the best of kickboxing, yoga, Pilates, plyometrics, and weight training to achieve optimal results. She is also proficient in Reebok Core, injury rehabilitation, endurance training, muscle growth, fat reduction and sports nutrition.

Jillian lives in Los Angeles with her beloved and faithful Chihuahua, Baxter. When she's not on the TV set, she enjoys traveling and getting involved in charitable activities. She is a celebrity advisor to National Day of Dance for Heart Health, an organization that encourages people to make exercise fun and to laugh, learn and dance to a healthier heart.

 

What Empowers Her

Favorite Books

A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
You Learn By Living - Eleanor Roosevelt
Reconciliation - Benazair Bhutto
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolfe
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

Favorite Quotes

"There is a special place in hell for women that don't help other women." ~Madeline Albright

"When you do what you love the universe conspires on your behalf." ~Oscar Wilde

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." ~John F. Kennedy

Faroite Musical Artists

U2, Tori Amos, Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Damien Rice, Talib Kweli, Keane, The Roots

Favorite Movies

Magnolia, Terms of Endearment, The Matrix, The Ice Storm, American Beauty, Indiana Jones

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