Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred--Beginners

Hi everyone! I'm new to this board. My friend Holly had me make my way over here. We just started the shred about a week and a half ago. I'm doing it 5 days a week. I've just started level3.. wow! lol I finished day 3 of level 3 today. Hoping to see those pounds go down soon. I can definetly see a difference though in my muscle tone.

Hey everyone!

Great job with all the work outs and staying on task! Debbie, you're singing my song! I do the same thing as you - but haven't lost that much weight yet! But I'm losing inches and that's more important to me!

So, I am on day 25 today - Level 3 Day 5. And wouldn't you know it, on the Rock Star jumps at the very end, I somehow twisted my knee and could not go on. I couldn't get any weight on it. I still did the abs at the end of the work out, but it totally sucked to have crapped out my knee like that!

Anyway - I'm taking it easy today and going to see how I feel tomorrow morning - I too get up at 5:00 am to work out and it is the best time to do it -- and if I can't do the jumping (L3 has LOTS of jumping) or lunges, then I'll figure out some way to work out my upper body!

Today sucks. I got up this morning to do the shred, but then didn't do it after all. I did go to the gym where I rode a bike for 35 min and ran 1.25 miles (at 4.8 mph), then came home and did the shred after that. This was definitely not a good plan. I was so tired and out of breath and thought I actually was going to die--following Anita or otherwise. I am happy to report that I did not, actually, die though. Clearly. Anyway, tomorrow is my last day on level 1 and after today I am scared ****less. Pardon my mouth/fingers. Also sucks today because I am STILL at the same weight that I have been stuck at for the last 2 or 3 weeks, so I decided to measure myself and I'm *hoping* that I was in the wrong spot or something because according to the tape, I've gained an extra 1/2 inch on my waist and an extra inch on my hips. Ugh. I was planning on measuring tomorrow after level 1 is completed, but I couldn't stand waiting, so tomorrow I'm still taking progress pics to post on my profile, in the small shred of hope that remains that I can visibly SEE some kind of difference in the way I look. At this point I am so disappointed and frustrated and don't really feel like doing anymore because there's no point, but alas, I shall go on. Maybe one day my stupid body will give up the fight and drop some of this excess that is me. Here's hopin, I guess.

Ps...sorry this sounds more like something I should have put in my blog, not this forum--but it was shred-related. Moral of the story being, do the shred before the gym always. LOL.

What time do you'll do your workouts? Yday I done mine at 7:30am I leave the house at 08:15am, I could barely walk, I was literally shaking after my workout, I turned up late to my Lecture. So today I'm planning on doing it after I come home hopefully.

I can't walk properly, I can't sit down on a chair without wincing, go down or up the stairs properly! How long does this pain lasttt LOL!

... going to do my D2-L1 soon. I am in so much pain.

PS: What do we log this as in the Excercise section, Cardio? Strentgh? ...Thank you in advance.

TaysMum - First of all, congratulations for allowing yourself to get "shredded" by Jiliian. It takes a brave person to do this, lol.

I noticed that you started your workout at 7:30 and left your house by 8:15. I have a couple of suggestions, I hope you don't mind. I think that if you are wanting to workout in the morning, you need to give yourself more time. If you can barely walk, take a few extra minutes after the dvd to do some more slow, steady stretches of your calves, quads and hamstrings. Also, are you drinking enough water. If you aren't hydrated properly, your muscles will go into painful contractions. So you may want to make sure that you're drinking lots (before and after).

You also mention that you were really shaky after the workout. Did you take any time to eat? Did you know, that after working your muscles in a strength training routine, you NEED to have protein within 30 minutes after your workout. If you don't do that, your body will take the protein from wherever it can steal it from. It steals the protein from your muscles. You were probably shaking because you had no "fuel in the tank". Take the time to have something like peanut butter, a protein bar or a protein shake.

So overall I think that you were very dehydrated and needed to re-fuel with protein.

Add to that not stretching enough and not having worked out in quite a while. No wonder you were/are in so much pain.

The bottom line is, you can fix this.

I hope that you aren't discouraged from working out. Keep up the good work and in no time you're going to feel as strong and fit as you did before having a baby.

Good luck!

ange_mechant - please don't be so hard on yourself. I think that you actually did an amazing workout routine today. You rode a bike for 35 minutes and then started running? Wow! I'm really impressed with you.

I know that you're really bummed about not losing, the upside, you're not gaining either.. Take that as positive as you may be converting fat to muscle and muscle weighs more than fat. However, if you are truly concerned, perhaps you should look back over your food log and see if you are needing to make any adjustments to your diet.

mimi - I am so very sorry that you blew out your knee. That has to be so painful. I hope that you recover quickly. Somehow I don't think that Jillian would mind if you took it way down to as low impact as you can until you recover. As far as those rock star jumps go, I don't like them. I'm never even going to try to do the high impact version. I think that move is just asking for people to blow out there knees. I'll just stick to small jumps like Anita.

Anyways, I'm so sorry for going on and on like this. I truly hope that no one takes any offense to my suggestions, they are only meant to be helpful.

Take care and go get "Shredded"!

Debbie

OK so I've been logging it as circuit training as well... but my question is, aren't we going to be burning more on level 2 and 3 than level 1? how are you guys logging this???

I asked this earlier and didn't get any responses -- I was hoping someone new would be on now that could possibly help answer my question. Thanks!

I did Level 1, Day 7 today. This is the first time in my life I don't have to force myself to exercise. During the workout, I keep telling Jillian how evil she is. But afterward, I love her for it. : )

Too funny! I do the exact same thing! I call her evil (and other nasty names) and I aim at her when I do my punches...but when I'm done and I look at my emerging muscles, I love her and tell everyone I know that she's awesome.

Hi everyone,

I got my dvd yesterday and popped it straight on and omg I could barely move by the time I'd finished. I got up this morning to do day 2 and I wanted to cry whilst I was doing it as I still hurt from yesterday. I think I might do 2 days on 1 day off to start with till I get used to working out. I cant wait for my weigh in on sunday to see how it helps with my weightloss. I've lost 10lb in the last 4 weeks without really doing much in the way of exercise so fingers crossed this helps even more =D

I am back people. Though I was depressed yesterday and ate a whole crapload of food because I just didn't care anymore because it wasn't doing anything anyway, I got my happy *kitten* up and did my shred this morning. Today was significantly better than yesterday and the first day I didn't stop at all during the lunges! Yay! Today was day 10, so tomorrow is level 2 and I am definitely scared. I posted my progress pics this morning and I think I have less back fat, but that's about the only difference I can see. I was taking the pics on a timer, so I'm further back in the new pics, which makes me look smaller, so it's hard to tell. But whatever, pics are there.

Hey everyone! I did Day 26 today - Level 3 day 6.

Yesterday I twisted my knee at the end so today I wrapped it up and gave it a go. I had to modify most of the lunges and squats and jumps! My leg killed when I was done.

So, tomorrow I think I'm going to have to try and take it easy. I was talking to my husband about possibly resting the rest of the week. He suggested I just cut back and maybe not do the "legs" or hard impact stuff. Because I don't want to "get out of the habit" and then never start up again. And he's right.

So, I think tomorrow, I'm going to go all the way back to level 1 and do that for a few days. However, I'm going to do the jumping jacks and butt kicks with weights like we do in Level 3 and I may try to follow Natalie a bit more now. I will probably not work out on Saturday or Sunday though.

I'm so bummed! :grumble: I can see the finish line but I have to go backward! Hopefully next week this will all be behind me and I can finish up Level 3! Or by that time I may be so sick of this I just start integrating the Couch to 5K plan in with Jillian. IDK!

I have tried this workout and it does definitly make you sore for days it works great. I love to know it is working.. I also do the Jillian no more trouble zones and banosh fat boost metabolism and the biggest loser cardio I rotate them do different ones each day
It is working and I love it.

hey ya'll I didn't get a chance to post this morning but I was up bright andf early @ 6am to do Level 1 Day 2. I was so tired and sleepy that I was forcing myself thru it all so I know i didn't put enough effort cuz my HRM only reported about 200 cals for the same exercise I did yesterday for 250cals. Oh well. Maybe a rest day tomorrow will do me some good. Also I am kinda scared that my knee got hurt, it doesnt hurt like crazy but it bothers me a bit. Wll try to keep an eye on it.

what is the best way to check your measurments cause i dont have a measuring tape that u can wrap around u properly?

what is the best way to check your measurments cause i dont have a measuring tape that u can wrap around u properly?

There is a printable one on the sparkspeople site. I just used a dollar store one i had here from my sewing kit. I used the sparkspeople sits reccomendations on where best to measure Hope this helps.

L2D6 (Day 16 overall) DONE! Oh the joy in saying that I'm done As I read through the thread, I can relate to the fact this journey has it's ups and downs but we are all motivated and encouraged by one another to keep going. I'm going to take a moment today to email some of the people that I haven't seen on the thread lately. They may just need a friendly reminder that they are not alone.

Have a wonderful day!

Melissa

BTW - Kathy, how's the new job?

good morning everyone!

Just finished Day 27! I did not do Level 3 though. Because of my leg ouchie I went back to Level 1 because there isn't has much jumping.

I did do the jumping jacks, butt kicks and shadow boxing with weights like in Level 3, and I tried to follow Natalie as much as possible. I even got in 5 "real" push ups before I got stuck and couldn't get back up! :happy:

But, it was still a challenge and incredibly hard!

My leg/knee is still a bit sore, but not as bad as yesterday. I will probably get up early tomorrow to work out and then take the weekend off and start again on Monday or Tuesday morning - depending on how I feel.

To everyone just starting - Great job! Keep it up and you'll be through in no time! And just think of how great you'll feel! Everyone moving up and on, Woo hoo! Way to go!

Hope everyone has a great Thursday!