Today I want to talk about muscle maturity.

But first a couple quick announcements …

This week is a BIG week—pun definitely intended—because TOMORROW (Tues) my friends Jen Sinkler and Kourtney Thomas are dropping their loooooong-awaited new 14-week fitness program, #BignessProject.

I was lucky enough to get an advanced peek a while ago when I was still deciding if I wanted JillFit to back the program, and YOU GUYS … the program is phenomenal.

These women don’t cut any corners when it comes to not only bringing the best muscle-building protocols, but they cover all the bases in terms of background, theory, form, hypertrophy (muscle-building) principles in-depth and all the cues you need to do the workouts effectively. Not to mention, they throw some great mindset content in too, which you know I love.

After getting a peek at the workouts, I decided to back #BignessProject.

Which means I am going to be promoting it here at JillFit, via a special link starting tomorrow.

This is called being an “affiliate,” where if someone purchases through my special link, I get a small kickback (yes, I own a business so monetization has to eventually occur via my IP—even though I give away literally 95% of my content for free). But I want you to know that I only ever promote products I believe in, with creators who I trust. I would never vouch for someone who wouldn’t be in their integrity or who was putting out crappy content. I value my relationship with you more than anything.

(BTW, I say all of this in the interest of being 100% honest and transparent with you up front about everything—for better or for worse, ha!)

So with that being said, #Bigness drops tomorrow, and I will be asking you to consider investing in it through my personal affiliate link. BUT, here’s the best part.

I’ve decided to sweeten the deal:

That’s a huge value and an even bigger education in both fitness and nutrition. I’m super pumped for it.

All you need to do is open the email that I send to you TOMORROW morning (Tuesday) and purchase from the link inside.

BOOM.

Upon purchase of #BignessProject, you’ll get access to that instantly, and then get enrolled into the 4-Week Food Obsession Boot Camp course on Saturday Jan 28^th (via email).

Now on to what I really want to show you today, which is this:

A 6-year before and after, regarding muscle gain.

See, one of the questions I get asked a lot is about how to maintain your physique or even get great results with doing less time in the gym.

The partial answer, unfortunately, is that building a base of muscle in my teens made a huge difference. Muscle maturity is definitely a thing.

Aaaaand, here's where it gets good, here's why muscle maturity matters: the more muscle you add to your frame, the easier it becomes to maintain your weight, your physique and your muscle mass with less effort. Your muscles' efforts compound. 

Cruel, right? But like Jade says, "Easy is earned," and the same goes for putting in work with the iron. 

And so my ultimate advice is always the same:

But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve your muscle mass and in turn, your metabolism (and ease of maintenance) at any age. I am proud of the muscle I’ve put on over the last 6 years (2010 vs. now, above), and we are always capable of changing our physiques with consistent training, intense training, strategic training.

I can appreciate how I looked back then, even though I was in a very “diet down,” body-obsessed mind frame. No regrets. But ultimately the hours of cardio and constant thinking about food was not only completely mentally distracting 100% of the time, but it was physically exhausting. And the “look” is also not my preference now.

The difference in weight here is probably about 8 lbs, but now I spend 30 minutes a day training total, I focus on mainly weight-centric exercise and I hardly ever think about food.

A 180-degree difference in approach.

I feel more womanly, sexier and more unapologetically powerful and emotionally strong now than I ever did when I was lighter. It’s all good—I love the jouney—but it’s a nice place to arrive at after all the obsession and wastes of time.

But here’s the thing: building muscle is an often overlooked solution to balancing the metabolism, and if you’re not seeing results for all your effort, then you’re not doing it right, even if you feel like you are. On some level, your approach isn’t working if your goal is body change and you aren’t seeing more curves, more definition, more muscle. 

If you weren’t prepping for that #BignessProject this week, then get your mind right for tomorrow. It’s a no brainer, everything you need to start building muscle and start unapologetically owning your power, physically, mentally, emotionally ;) PLUS, get Food Obsession Boot Camp free!

And yes, you can do the programs together, no problem. Food Obsession is a purely educational course delivered via emails and videos, so no, you don't have to "prep" food and buy a whole bunch of food, cook it up and start fresh. Please. No, you can literally begin the program on a Thursday at 1pm. Lol.

See you tomorrow with all the #Bigness info! In the meantime, send me any questions you have.

Xo,

Jill

P.S. Are you signed up for Jen, Kourtney and my FREE live fitness roundtable tomorrow night? We’ll be talking all things muscle-building, fat loss and physique change, plus taking all your questions. You can register (free) HERE.