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• Jillian Michaels, Trainer

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Jillian Michaels

Audio! Guess Who's Back?
We caught up with that tough girl trainer Jillian Michaels about her reappearance on Season 4.


Jillian Michaels makes a dramatic return to NBC’s hit weight-loss series “The Biggest Loser” this fall, reprising her role as trainer and life coach to the show’s contestants. 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. With the success of her first publication, Jillian has released her second book “Making the Cut: The 30-Day Diet and Fitness Plan for the Strongest, Sexiest You,” published by Crown publishing. Released in April 2007, this book focuses on the most efficient and healthy way to lose weight within a 30-day time frame.

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 is now available on DVD and on her online program at www.jillianmichaels.com.

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 physiological.

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 Endurance and Strength Training 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. On top of her work with National Dance, Jillian is the 2007 spokesperson for the American Cancer Society's National Health Challenge, and beginning this spring, she will be AOL's Fitness Coach for 2007.

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