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36 || FITNESS MAGAZINE || OCTOBER 2015 a business consultant for a Fortune 500 company and then as a territory manager & medical sales representative. In November 2011, she decided to take a leap of faith, follow her passion for fitness and helping others, and left her corporate job behind in pursuit of a full-time career in fitness. Now, nearly four years later, she has a diverse list of clientele across the globe. Through her online training & coaching business she is able to work with clients worldwide and enjoys working with any and every one who is looking to become their most fit and healthy self. When working with clients, Jen has them apply her %u201cFun with fitness%u201d motto in order to help make each step of their fitness journey a more fun, enjoyable process. Her logic is simple: as long as you are participating in some sort of activity that you love or have fun with, the more apt you are to stick with it for the long run. Whether that means taking cardio workouts outdoors for a walk or hike, grabbing a friend for a date in the weight room or skipping the treadmill to hit a Zumba class, the objective is to always keep it fun. Workouts shouldn%u2019t be something you dread, but instead enjoy. Ultimately this approach has helped increase the success rate for her clients, for teaching them that they can achieve results with a combined, balanced approach to their fitness has helped them develop a far more sustainable approach to their respective fitness journeys. This approach was also instrumental in Jen%u2019s own transformation. MFM: How did you come up with your %u201cfun with fitness%u201d motto?JJ: My %u201cfun with fitness%u201d motto started back when I was over 35% body fat and wearing a size 11 in jeans. Despite this high body fat percentage, weight gain and a pant size that had increased from a 1 or 3 to an 11, I had still been hitting the gym. Clearly I wasn%u2019t putting in enough effort with the intensity of each workout, and I certainly wasn%u2019t paying near as much attention to a healthy and balanced diet. Not only was I nowhere near as healthy as I should have been I realized that I was stuck in a serious rut with my workouts and approach to fitness. My motivation to hit the gym was at an all-time low. In order for me to look forward to workouts, I knew I had to change things up from the typical %u201clift weights and hit the treadmill%u201d routine I%u2019d grown weary of. I didn%u2019t want to dread my workouts anymore, I wanted to enjoy them. I love being outside, so I started taking my cardio outdoors for power walks in the neighborhood, hitting the hills, a local park for some laps and bodyweight workouts, and finally started taking those yoga classes I%u2019d always wanted to. Suddenly, I was excited about working on my fitness again. I was looking forward to the next yoga session, spin class with my friends, lifting weights a few times a week and more. At this same time, I noticed that I started losing weight, I was getting leaner and had increased muscle definition, yet not one bit of the process had felt like %u201cwork%u201d as it had all been fun. This is when it all pretty much clicked for me and I realized that the more fun I had with exercise, the easier it was for me to finally stick with it on a consistent basis. It was simple- if I didn%u2019t want to go to the gym, I didn%u2019t. Don%u2019t get me wrong, this didn%u2019t mean that I skipped a workout that day, but instead of going to the gym when I didn%u2019t want to, I would head outdoors, grab a friend for a hike, do yoga at home, etc. I%u2019ve been able to achieve some serious results with this approach, and I%u2019ve helped my clients and a number of others do the same. I teach my clients that %u201cworking out%u201disn%u2019t limited to going to the gym each and every day and that they can instead embrace an array of activities that keep them active while working on their fitness. I am always teaching my clients that working out doesn%u2019t have to be a chore but instead can be really enjoyable and fun. This has been instrumental in their achieving those hardearned and (importantly) sustainable, results.