HELP for my wife...Ripped in 30 / 30 day shred / Insanity

2kidsandadonut

My husband and I are doing 30DS right now. He's in shape and I'm not. We both love it even though afterwards I'm a puddle and he's grabbing a beer (he says hydration, hydration, hydration I figure if he's willing to work out with me when he doesn't have to he's allowed a beer) But as someone with not so great knees I find it works well there are a couple of places that aggravate my knees but I just modify around them. As far as getting bored...there are three work outs and you can level up as needed. We are still on level one because I'd kill him if we move up! But I def. recommend it!

Astrowife68

Start her with 30 day shred. Then she'll be ready for Ripped. Ripped is much more intense.

I agree with this. I did 30 day shred in Feb and am restarting it once again for March. I do have Ripped and checked it out. But I don't think I am quite ready to start it, so hopefully in April I will be up to it. I am in a group for the March 30DS, your wife maybe interested in joining it and getting some modivation from others in her same boat.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/3617-shredding-through-the-month-of-march

Good luck in both of your journies.


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seamonkey789

I have bad knees and hard wood floors. Even a mat did not help me knees with the jumping stuff (I'm a dancer and used to jumping on suspended floors) What I did for the cardio with the jumping stuff (except the jumping jacks) was do them on a mini trampoline.

Both my knees and hips are shot from dancing and the mini trampoline helped with that

zoombie_bear

do you own a wii? I did the active 1 & 2,
I did that 1st
then in order
then JM 30ds
then insanity,
asylum,
p90x
back to jm products, love her
also touched
killers buns
6wk 6pack
extreme shed & shred

Smuterella

Personally I found 30 DS very boring and very hard on the knees.

khallcma1

I have the Jillian Michaels shred and found some of the moves to be hard on my knees but she may be able to modify some of the moves. Otherwise it is a great video. I was super sore for 2 days after the first time I used it. I've not be at it long enough to advise on the weight loss. There is a lot of getting down on the floor and back up to your feet quickly in this video.

mrscherry1

Are those your only choices for starting her off? I've been exercising regularly since Christmas (from not exercising at all) and I'm pretty sure if I started off with 30DS I wouldn't have continued. I found that exercising using a Wii game was more fun and enticing and it slowly got me conditioned to exercising for longer periods of time. It was exercising without feeling like traditional exercise. By the time I decided to try 30DS, it wasn't as intimidating and, as bleeping hard as it was, I felt confident that I could push through.

I sooooooo agree with this, If I would have just started off with 30 Shred after day one I probably would never have gone back -lol:blushing: , I had been somewhat working out a bit before I did that and after day 1 my legs still felt a little like jello:laugh: !! I would def. try and start her at something a little less intensity to begin with!! (Don't get me wrong I do love 30 shred BUT if she is not use to working out his may scare her)!! Good Luck to her!:drinker:

mickyjd

Thanks again everyone - all of these posts are very helpful and I appreciate you taking time out of your day to respond.

I'll show my wife this thread and then we'll agree on an action plan - maybe straight in to 30DS or maybe a few weeks on the wii again

Best Wishes

Michael

heartshines

Don't expect her to jump right in on what you're doing. Be happy she is doing something. Also..do not compare your progress to hers.
Why don't you walk with her? This would be good quality time with her. Important part of exercise/weight loss is moving. Then as she loses weight and becomes more conditioned to exercise, she can then ease into something.

Be a super supportive husband!