Jillian Michaels (personal trainer)

Jillian Michaels (born February 18, 1974) is a personal trainer from Los Angeles, California. Michaels is widely known for her appearances on The Biggest Loser and Losing It With Jillian.

Career

Michaels began her career in exercise because she was overweight as a teenager. In 2009, on the television show The Doctors, Michaels showed a photograph of herself when she was twelve years old, saying she weighed and was tall, so she was overweight. When she was thirteen years old, her mother enrolled her in a martial arts class. Thereafter she dedicated herself to helping overweight people lose weight.

She uses a blend of strength training techniques with her clients, including kickboxing, yoga, Pilates, plyometrics, and weight training.

Michaels is a celebrity adviser 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." She has released several exercise DVDs, the most popular being the '30 Day Shred'.

Michaels hosted a Sunday talk radio show on Los Angeles' KFI (640 AM) from 2006 through 2009.

On October 21, 2008, she launched a new video game called Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for the Wii. A year later, she launched a sequel called...... ...
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