The BBG program is based on 28-minute high-intensity workouts to be completed three times per week. By October, the guides had been downloaded over one million times. ![]() Itsines would later offer the guides via an affiliate program as well. The following January, they published the first two Bikini Body Guides, with Itsines' workouts in one volume, and nutrition information from dieticians Julie Dundon and Anne Schneyder of Nutrition Professionals Australia in another. In March 2013, they founded the Bikini Body Training company with Itsines as director and Pearce as CEO. Her partner, Tobi Pearce, suggested that she compile her routines into ebooks that could be sold online. ![]() Within a few months, Itsines gained thousands of followers and was receiving regular requests for advice and help. Itsines' 12-year-old cousin suggested using Instagram as a way of organising the photos. She lectured them on nutrition, and asked them to take before-and-after photos of themselves to track their progress. She also started training her sister's friends who wanted to improve their fitness so they could play Netball on their high school team, focusing on building core strength and powerful legs. Itsines came to believe that most women seek three specific outcomes from training: smaller inner thighs, flatter abdomens, and more toned arms, while also being concerned about becoming too bulky. Itsines found work at a women's gym in Adelaide. Finding that she enjoyed how the workouts made her feel, she abandoned her original plans to become a beauty therapist graduating from the Australian Institute of Fitness at the age of 18 as a Master Trainer. She recalls being initially intimidated and overwhelmed by the gym, until a personal trainer encouraged her to "just start somewhere". ![]() Itsines traces her interest in fitness to playing basketball and other sports.
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