Jillian Michaels 6-Week six pack any good?

pianoplaya94

I am looking to tone my mid-section and have visible abs. I currently do crunches, using the workout machines, at the gym. As well as other strength training for other areas (e.g leg lifts). I know that abs "start in the kitchen" but I already have a pretty low bf % (19 I think?) and am already on the very low end of a healthy BMI. So I am wondering, if you've tried this workout, if it is worth it and if it has noticeable results?

newblue95

I personally didn't like this workout at all. I didn't feel anything through most of it, my abs weren't burning at all.
I highly recommend the hasfit.com 30 day to six pack abs program. Its only 5-10 minutes a day, 5 times a week and it has a calendar. It's on their website and the videos are linked to youtube. Very convenient! My abs are always burning and I'm already seeing results on day 8!

pianoplaya94

newblue95 wrote: »

I personally didn't like this workout at all. I didn't feel anything through most of it, my abs weren't burning at all.
I highly recommend the hasfit.com 30 day to six pack abs program. Its only 5-10 minutes a day, 5 times a week and it has a calendar. It's on their website and the videos are linked to youtube. Very convenient! My abs are always burning and I'm already seeing results on day 8!

Great thanks! I'll check it out!

JanolaBarbara

I found this to be good. It's a 30 day plank challenge, and I definitely saw a lot of improvement as I did it.

http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/the-30-day-plank-challenge/?utm_source=mfp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly20150504&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokv6rBZKXonjHpfsX56+UuUK60iokz2EFye+LIHETpodcMTsZiN6+TFAwTG5toziV8R7DBLM153N8QXRTg

mistib1229

newblue95 wrote: »

I personally didn't like this workout at all. I didn't feel anything through most of it, my abs weren't burning at all.
I highly recommend the hasfit.com 30 day to six pack abs program. Its only 5-10 minutes a day, 5 times a week and it has a calendar. It's on their website and the videos are linked to youtube. Very convenient! My abs are always burning and I'm already seeing results on day 8!

I second the hasfit program! I love that it's quick and targets the specific area. All of their videos are great though

OxfordDVM

I have done several Jillian workouts and this is not one of my favorites. There is one long circuit that repeats once. I think I like her videos with shorter circuits better. (Three different "short" circuits of 30DS or Ripped, instead of one "long" circuit repeated like this one).

I will also check out hasfit.com. Thanks!

Immerito

pianoplaya94 wrote: »

I am looking to tone my mid-section and have visible abs. I currently do crunches, using the workout machines, at the gym. As well as other strength training for other areas (e.g leg lifts). I know that abs "start in the kitchen" but I already have a pretty low bf % (19 I think?) and am already on the very low end of a healthy BMI. So I am wondering, if you've tried this workout, if it is worth it and if it has noticeable results?

Visible abs are produced by losing body fat---and your body will decide where to lose fat next. No workout will spot reduce fat; exercise is for health and strength, diet is for abs.

Immerito

I haven't done this specific workout, but you may find this helpful:

First, before anyone takes offense, I'm a Jillian fan. I absolutely love No More Trouble Zones and Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism. I cannot say enough about those 2 workouts. I wanted a workout that was strictly abs to supplement on the days I do outdoor cardio. I have pretty strong abs and am sick enough to actually like working them. So of course I bought Jillian's ab workout!

Except it's not really an ab workout. Sure there's ab work, but it's pretty fast paced cardio. I didn't need or want that. I wanted to go nuts on my abs a few days a week. I get that you have to do cardio to burn the fat off in order to see the ab muscles, but I take care of that with other work outs.

People have mentioned before that in some of Jillian's workouts, she goes so fast that it's easy to get injured. I consider myself intermediate-just touching into advanced, so I wasn't worried about that. Well, I was wrong (maybe I'm not as close to advanced as I thought). I can handle burpees, but with the fast paced ones, that wierd spider thing, wild warm ups, and all the other oddities in this workout, before I knew it, I had strained a calf muscle. Now that plain hurts! Not to mention, thanks to this unnecessary injury, my cardio and lower body work had to be severely modified for 3 weeks. That meant a half inch gain to my waistline. =-O Fortunately, NMTZ & BFBM took care of that once I was able to really get into it again.

I gave it 3 stars, because I think it could be a good workout if you weren't really doing cardio, or if you just want it as part of a larger rotation. That's not what I was looking for.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R5YNORJ49LZB5/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0042AGNB4#R5YNORJ49LZB5