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As you know, the full 37-workout #PhysiqueFinishers program is now open for enrollment. I'm super proud of this program, and I cannot wait for you to join the thousands of others already enrolled!

Be sure to grab your copy HERE before we close it up this Monday August 27th.

Even if you aren't sure if you want to begin the program right now, these workouts are plug-and-play so you can do them anytime--traveling, hotel rooms, your living room, etc.

One question that has come up a lot is about the LENGTH of these workouts.

“Jill, is this all you do, or do you do other exercise too?”

“From a psychological perspective, it feels weird to only exercise for 15 minutes even though they’re really tough.”

“I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around just doing these short workouts, shouldn’t I also be doing other stuff?”

Great questions, and I want to shed some light real quick.

I’ll never forget the years I spent doing 2-3 hours of exercise every day.

For me, training was a control mechanism.  If I could just exercise enough, then I could control the way my body looked, and by extension I’d be approved of, seen as attractive, worthy, good enough, whatever.

And if I felt I needed to be skinnier, then I’d just exercise for longer. More was better, right?

Come to find out, nope.

More exercise didn’t actually elicit exponentially better results, like I thought it would. In fact, there was a pretty clear point of diminishing returns. More wasn’t better.

More exercise just meant I had to curb the intensity, because if I had to run for an hour or do the elliptical while watching a TV show for an hour, then obviously I would pace. Pacing caused me to yes, burn calories, but not actually change the look of my body.

And because I was working in that moderate-intensity zone, never actually breaching breathlessness, or burning in the muscles, or working to the point of near-failure at times, the hours of exercise caused me to actually lose some muscle (stress-response) and also shot my hunger and cravings through the roof!

Anyone who has ever trained for a race or did a lot of exercise knows this feeling—the constant feeling of hunger and the constant urge to eat sweets, and trying to white-knuckle your way through avoiding temptation.

Ugh.

I remember at that time my ex-husband, Jade saying, “Jill, if you just didn’t do as much exercise, your cravings would probably subside.”

I remember scoffing because cutting back on exercise felt impossible. It was my control mechanism. If I did less, then I’d … lose control? Blow up? Not be able to exercise off all the chocolate I was eating because my cravings were out of control??

Exercise was my addiction. Long workouts. Trying to burn 1000 calories a day through exercise (no joke!), and meanwhile, my body wasn’t responding at all and I was trying every second not to binge. It was no way to live.

Finally, FINALLY over the course of about 9 months, I started cutting back on exercise. Doing 90 minutes instead of 2 hours. Then an hour. Then 45 minutes. Then 30. It was scary!!

But what happened changed the way I viewed exercise forever: my workouts were getting shorter, my intensity was getting better and I didn’t gain a bunch of weight (the thing I was most scared of) and my appetite actually leveled off (I was shocked!).

And I got my life back.

I think I needed to see it for myself. To start trusting that less exercise could also elicit results, and I didn’t have to be a slave to cardio. That I could trust myself, that my metabolism would still respond, and that intensity could serve just as well, if not better, than duration for results.

If anything, the intensity in my workouts changed my body—more muscle, definition, curves, inches lost—way more than adding more minutes ever did.

And so, while I know it can feel scary to “just exercise for 20 minutes,” I want you to TRUST that when you replace duration with intensity, it is PLENTY.

Sure, leisure walk as much as you want. Do yoga, maybe throw in some sprints once a week, or do a class.

BUT you absolutely do not need to train more than what is contained in #PhysiqueFinishers if we are talking about fat loss and body change. It’s plenty. I promise.

If you want more, go heavier! Ha! ;)

Cool? Cool.

I’m in your corner and I cannot WAIT for you to try these workouts and let me know how you do following the whole 6-week or 12-week plan.

Be sure to grab it before Monday!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Xo,

Jill