Strengthen And Streamline Your Body With Awesome Workout

Fitness guru Jillian Michaels’ creative take on dumbbells will transform your body, giving you the strong, streamlined muscles you’ve been repping for. Guaranteed.

- Jaclyn Emerick

What do you do after you’ve whipped half of America into shape (or at least sounded the wake-up call for it to get off the couch)? If you’re Jillian Michaels, you certainly don’t downshift. In fact, she has stayed in boss mode, never really leaving prime time television since she wrapped up The Biggest Loser two years ago.

Recently, she turned the cameras on herself for the E! docuseries Just Jillian. It may be her gutsiest move yet. “I wanted to honestly portray the comedy of errors that occurs as we all embrace the struggle to juggle work, family, personal time and more,” she says. “I want people to watch it and have their own issues reflected, their feelings validated.”

What’s clear is that Jillian is at the top of her game. Throughout what she calls the “tremendous evolution” of the modern fitness industry, which she has arguably had a hand in shifting this past decade, she has remained the same supremely chiselled advocate of picking up some weights, and not the wimpy kind. (She has long preached the need for women to lift, and has always preferred free weights to machines.) “I’ve watched the trend go from being all about the low-intensity fat-burning zone to crazy for HIIT. People are also moving away from machines and towards body-weight and free-weight training,” she says. “Strong, not skinny, is now sexy, and long workouts are a thing of the past.”