February was one heck of a month here, one that included not much sleep and lots and lots of hard work. One reason: Feb 28 marked day 30 of my 30-day shred with Jillian Michaels DVD workout system. Soooooo....am I completely shredded? Do I hate Jillian Michaels? Am I going to stick with it? Not yet, sorta, and absolutely!
The workouts are 20-minutes long, 25 including warm up and cool down (which are both very short and to-the-point in true JM style). Before starting out I thought, how tough can a 20 minute workout be? Well, I'll go ahead and answer that one now: TOUGH. I've never felt like such a head-to-toe weakling. But she knows her stuff, and I progressed pretty quickly from level one to level two. Now, I can hardly believe it, but level two is getting easy. Level three, here I come (gulp).
She wants you to do the workout every day, and I managed to fit it in 5-6 days a week. It's almost addictive because I felt so great afterward. And it's really fun to actually feel yourself getting fitter and stronger day by day. I didn't lose as much weight as I wanted last month, but I think I gained muscle. It might actually be a 60-day shred program for me, before I get my desired results. Here's to the next 30 days! :)
4 comments:
I hate her voice, so I have been putting off buying the videos, however I keep hearing great stuff about them. I think you just helped me make my final decision to buy it:)!!!
Yay! I like her, she is a crazy lady but she knows what she is doing. Yeah her voice is annoying, then again so is not shedding the pounds any other way, so I have been doing her video and loving it. So sore after the first day though, you were right! It kills! It has not gotten easier yet!
Well I have to amend that--who knows, JM could randomly find my blog like babycakes NYC did, and I don't want to hurt her feelings! I don't HATE her, but she is a taskmaster and after some of the harder reps I just kinda want to tell her to shut the heck up. :)There, glad I cleared that up.
You can do it. Just keep it up. It will get easier for you. The more you do it the better it will make you feel.
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