Getting my *kitten* kicked :(

Hadabetter

Yup. ...keep going!! I could barely get through 30 Day Shred when I first started and I now can do Ripped in 30 Level 4 the same as the athletes in the video unmodified.

I am doing Insanity currently, finished month one, and I never thought I could ever do this. Just keep at it, you WILL get better trust me.

Thanks Jules Dam! I am impressed with your ability....hopefully I will be there one day! I keep hearing about "insanity" interesting name to say the least. Is it another video based work out? Im guessing it is harder than the jillian micheals one?

Just curious - What event did you run in track?

blues4miles

I started a Jillian Micheals DVD today and couldn't even get through half of it. Feeling a little discouraged. Have any of you had the same thing happen and if so how do you motivate yourselves to continue?

have had the same experience, i keep motivated by looking at pictures of things i really, really want called a Dream Board. Same thing happens with other areas of "work" like my side business, my career etc

Love this idea. Had heard about it, now may actually try it.

NCchar130

When I think I can't possibly go one more minute, I push to get through that next minute. And little by little you will work your way up to doing more than you ever thought possible!

When I started working out back in July, I was doing everything at home. I had a 40 minute long step aerobics DVD that I did 3 days a week and I did bodyweight strength exercises the other three days. I could only complete 20 minutes of the DVD (with at least 3 short breaks to catch my breath), could only do about 4 modified pushups, could plank for something like 10 or 15 seconds....and all that would make me terribly sore.

Within a month or 6 weeks or so, I could knock out 15 modified pushups, plank for 30 seconds, and complete the whole DVD.

Now I can plank for a minute, do 30 modified pushups without stopping and 4 regular pushups (hey, I'm getting there lol) and then another set, can run 4 miles, I do HIIT intervals on the treadmill switching between 5mph and 7.5mph for 20 minutes. I would never have believed last summer I would have come so far.

So DON'T give up and DON'T let yourself be discouraged.

ASarioglou

I felt the same way in the beginning. But I continued so it started getting easier to do the modified versions so I started forcing myself to do the advanced versions of these moves. I started only being able to do a couple at first but I contiued to improve until I could barely keep up. I switched to Insanity shortly after that. I did insanity with some modifications for a week and then I did level 3 Jillian Michaels...it was so easy to do the workout that I was going deeper, harder and faster then she was. Keep going even when you don't want to.

Resa52

I totally get this. I bought a 30 Day Shred video like three years ago when all of my friends jumped on that bandwagon. I couldn't even finish half of it while they were all laughing about how easy Level One was.

Hence, I put it away for three years and I'm even more out of shape now.

I just finished day four and I'm still having to rest for 30 seconds here and there, but I've seen a bit of improvement already stamina wise!

shan056

When I think I can't possibly go one more minute, I push to get through that next minute. And little by little you will work your way up to doing more than you ever thought possible!

When I started working out back in July, I was doing everything at home. I had a 40 minute long step aerobics DVD that I did 3 days a week and I did bodyweight strength exercises the other three days. I could only complete 20 minutes of the DVD (with at least 3 short breaks to catch my breath), could only do about 4 modified pushups, could plank for something like 10 or 15 seconds....and all that would make me terribly sore.

Within a month or 6 weeks or so, I could knock out 15 modified pushups, plank for 30 seconds, and complete the whole DVD.

Now I can plank for a minute, do 30 modified pushups without stopping and 4 regular pushups (hey, I'm getting there lol) and then another set, can run 4 miles, I do HIIT intervals on the treadmill switching between 5mph and 7.5mph for 20 minutes. I would never have believed last summer I would have come so far.

So DON'T give up and DON'T let yourself be discouraged.

Wow thats awesome! I think you have touched on something that I need to focus on. Its important to remember those little milestones. Instead of trying to compare myself (or keep up with) the fitness goddess on these dvds I need to compare myself to me, a week ago, a month ago. Thanks for the encouragement:)

avababy05

I'm gonna have to try HIIT