When you’re in a video with J. Lo and people talk about your body as much as hers, you have earned the right to say that you’ve accomplished something significant.

But I haven’t always had a diesel body. I wasn’t fat, but “cut” was something the director said at the end of a take, not an adjective people used

todescribe what I looked like. Now and then I would grab a dumbbell or hop on an exercise bike, but Iwasn’t serious, and I wasn’t educated enough about my training to take my God-given genetics and makethe most out of them.

I really took my body to the next level when the time came to hit the road in 2002 in support of my CD “Ten.” Working with my trainer, Dave “Scooter” Honig, I ended up exceeding even my own highest expectations. That’s because working together, we developed a revolutionary workout system that not only burns away body fat for good but also builds muscle at the same time! In fact, the building of the muscle and the burning of the fat simultaneously is what produced the body you saw in “Control Myself.”

We call it the Platinum Workout, and it’s a surefire way to turn those love handles around your waist into bulges in the good places: your chest, shoulders, arms, and legs.

"I don’t mess around when I train; I blow and go." When you’re running between pullups, dips, pulldowns, situps, doing the treadmill in between, and then jumping on it again at the end, you feel it. Period. You know what I’m sayin’?

You have to be serious about getting in shape if you want the platinum body.

That’s because two constants in Scooter’s and my approach are (1) maximum intensity and (2) the kind of focus that could bend a spoon like that kid in the first Matrix. And that mind-muscle connection is why my new body is just the tip of the iceberg.

The real secret is what this workout program has done for the rest of my life, including my career.