The Ultimate Before and After 30 Day Shred Thread

JessPaul93016

I've had the DVD for about a week now. I just haven't had the motivation to start. Thank you all for your success stories. I will definitely be starting this tonight! Everyone looks amazing! Keep up the hard work! :happy:

sharidiane

Can someone help me out here? I have the DVD. What size weights to use? I have a 5lb and an 8lb. I find the 8lb a little to heavy right now. My other and biggest question is the push ups. I am trying to do level one... but I can not do a push up.. So will this impact greatly on my results? Should I just skip over that part of the video and move on? Please remember that I am 61 years old.

Keep at it!!! Don't give up. I started out on Day 1 only able to do about 8 pushups - no joke. Day 14 for me, and I can now do all of the first 30 seconds, and about the first 10 seconds of the second.

14 days in ... and the only thing I can't do (yet) are the pushups!!!! You should have seen me th first day - imagine a walrus doing jumping jacks, lol. Now I rock them. They don't even phase me.

So ... the scale is the devil, because 14 days in and I have only lost 1.5 lbs. But my fitness is HUGELY improved and I KNOW I am losing inches. Fit into a size 16 yesterday, when I was making the 18's work really hard in April just to zip.

I love this workout!

angie_pangie

I didn't lose weight or inches but I am a little more toned. I didn't follow a diet so this time around I should have better results.

falonjohle

after seeing all the results i went out and bought this dvd last night along with some hand weights.. started with the 2lb ones and going to work my way up... i even took the before pictures now i can't wait to get off work and get home to do this!!

sharidiane

Does anyone know how many calories it burns?

When I put it into MFP, it came up at 271 calories for me. I also had a HRM monitor that was kind of crappy that gave all different readouts.

I just got a Polar F7 (*love*) and it says 266. But I have to say - I give it my ALL. When I am doing cardio, my heart rate is at 90% or more. And when I'm doing the weights, my the last few reps, I am shaking to get them done. And I sweat buckets - nay - I sweat baby pools.

So, you could go by what MFP gives you if you don't have a HRM, but ultimately it depends on how much effort you are exerting. I've had a couple of days where I just couldn't give it 100%, so I reduced the calories by about 20-40%, depending. You log in under Cardiovascular - Circuit Training, general. HTH.

Gyro319

Oh Ok thanks! Im actually doing her dvd called 6 week 6 pack its really good. Ive been doing it for almost 2 weeks now!

Gyro319

Can someone tell me about the 30 day shred...I am going away on vacation next month and would really like to lose some inches as well as 15-25 pounds!

30 Day Shred is by Jillian Michaels and is one of her ciruit training programs. She does a quick 5 minute warm up, then 3 curcuits with 3 minutes strength training, two minutes cardio, and 1 minute abs... for a total of 18 ish minutes hard. Then a 5 minute cool down. There are three levels on the DVD. It is a killer DVD.

Gyro319

oh ok thanks! im actually doing her dvd called 6 weeks 6 pack its really good. ive been doing it for almost 2 weeks now!

helenmelon29

Here are my results:

Started March 16
Bust: 34
Waist: 30.5
Hips: 39
Weight:140

Completed on April 18
Bust: 33 - a loss of 1 inch
Waist: 28 - a loss of 2.5 inches
Hips: 37 - a loss of 2 inches
Weight: 132.6 - a loss of 7.4 lbs

I wish I would have taken some other measurements like arms/legs/neck, but that hadn't really occured to me before I started.

I am 5'6" - and the 30DS was really the only workout I was following. I did 10 days at each level with a few rest days spread out here and there. Wasn't doing any other extra exercises, etc. I was following a 1200 calorie diet as well.

Black suit is BEFORE and Zebra suit is AFTER.

Wow you look fantastic!

helenmelon29

Great idea!!

I did it for 30 consecutive days (which I still can't believe I didn't miss a day!!). I also did the C25K program three times a week, and Zumba twice a week. As well as some biking and walking in there, too.

I lost 5.5 lbs, 3" off my waist and 3.5" off my hips.





Brilliant results.

All of these are keeping me motivated, good topic/postx

I don't have photos from Day 1 of my back, but here's Day 10 (after Level 1)

Hype

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s_nes

Bump...I am just over halfway through and am looking forward to adding my final results!

sundance2032

Can someone help me out here? I have the DVD. What size weights to use? I have a 5lb and an 8lb. I find the 8lb a little to heavy right now. My other and biggest question is the push ups. I am trying to do level one... but I can not do a push up.. So will this impact greatly on my results? Should I just skip over that part of the video and move on? Please remember that I am 61 years old.

Hi, do not skip that part, you can do them on your knees if you want to try, but I would say start doing them standing facing the wall and push off. The farther you stand from the wall the harder it will be.

bmfrazie

WOW ladies you all look great...you are making me think about looking into this!

frats

Fantastic results! But I must be in the minority! I did 27 of the 30 days before I gave up. I gained 3 pounds and didn't lose an inch! I enjoyed the workouts (as much as you can enjoy them) but by the the end of level 3, I was jsut getting frustrated with not seeing results! On the plus side, I have gone back to the elliptical and I have lose 1.5 lbs in 3 days!

Is there ANYONE else who did't get results with this workout?

angie_pangie

Fantastic results! But I must be in the minority! I did 27 of the 30 days before I gave up. I gained 3 pounds and didn't lose an inch! I enjoyed the workouts (as much as you can enjoy them) but by the the end of level 3, I was jsut getting frustrated with not seeing results! On the plus side, I have gone back to the elliptical and I have lose 1.5 lbs in 3 days!

Is there ANYONE else who did't get results with this workout?

I didn't lose any inches or weight but when I look at my pics (they are on the previous page I think) I can see a little bit of a difference. I didn't incorporate a healthy diet by any means and am thinking that is why I wasn't as successful as others.

CharlieJuliette

Wow! Some SERIOUSLY impressive results! I did it for 30 days straight back in March. I'll go and see if I can find my before and after stats..

CharlieJuliette

Originally posted on 31st March:

I’ve finished the 30 day shred!

My Results:
Before After
Weight 145.0 lbs 139.5 lbs
Body fat * 32% 28%
Waist 33” 31”
Hips 42” 40”

* Measured on a Tanita scale, so not that accurate, but gives you an idea.

What I did:
30 day shred every day for 30 days, each level for 10 days.
Got as close as possible to my 1,200 daily net calories without going over.
Drank 8 cups of water a day.
In addition to the shred I did Tae Bo workouts when I needed the extra calorie allowance!. This was a total of 6 times during the 30 days.

Before and after pictures:





(If the pictures don't work they're also on my profile page.)

I should’ve taken more from different angles but hopefully you can see from my silhouette that my spare tyre has reduced. I have to admit I was hoping to lose more weight given how bloody hard it was, but having said that I feel much stronger and my jeans are alot looser!

Hope this helps if you are thinking of doing it.

mosneakers

Awesome results, ladies!!! I'm headed to Boston for the 4th of July and would love to see some results like you've had before I go on vacation. I actually bought the DVD weeks ago - it's still in the original wrapping. :blushing: It will be out of the wrapper and played tonight. Thanks for the motivation!!!

Fabnover40Kat

My results

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/254850-what-jillian-has-done-to-me

smilebhappy

bump to read later

cindyrey

these results are amazing, since I am doing it through exercise tv I don't know if I am supose to be following a certain diet or not. I am just keeping my calories to as close to 1200 as possible.

Phera

Fantastic results! I don't want to rain on anyone's parade either but the workouts really screwed up my ankle and it took about a month of taking it easy to recover. I was also doing C25k at the same time so I may have over done it.

MiniMichelle

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xCarbJunkiex

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bnewnam

I just started the 30 day shred yesterday. Thanks for the inspiration girls:)

jannapurna

I'm on day3 of the 30DS and this thread has really inspired me to keep at it! Thanks so much! I've taken before pictures and I'll take after pictures to post on this thread. Hopefully my before and after will be impressive!
I don't have weights yet either, so I've been using cans of beans. I don't get a burn when I do the floor weights (??), but I certainly feel it with the side lunges!
I'm also doing the 100 push-up challenge, on week 2, so my arms are killing me!
I can do sooooo many more push-ups now than I could two weeks ago, though. If you haven't tried it yet, go to onehundredpushups.com

TanajaP

Fantastic results! I don't want to rain on anyone's parade either but the workouts really screwed up my ankle and it took about a month of taking it easy to recover. I was also doing C25k at the same time so I may have over done it.

i understand your pain. as much as i LOVE jillian and want the 30ds to work for me, it just doesn't. my knees hurt every single time i do it. i know it's not my form because i always workout when my husband is home so he can correct me. i can do insanity fine with no knee issues and thats hardcore but jillian and i'm hobbling around like i've been hit by a truck. lol.


but enough of that.. you ladies look fantastic! great job!

zoombie_bear

you look fantastic

1aprilaries

just finished day 2 level 1. I'm hoping i lose inches more than weight.