maybe it's time to be serious... 30 Day Shred anyone?

asltiffm - Hello I was wondering how long it took you to move up to two hours? Was that with Jillian DVDs only? Just curious how long I should only do Shred before adding other workouts. Thanks!

Well, I am a little crazy. I have always been active and love to push myself to my limits...and I enjoy it. I did the 30 day shred one day and couldn't move for a few days without everything screaming so I started doing it again after about a week. A week later I was doing about 2 hours. Some days it was just Jillian but most days it was a mix of Jillian and Biggest Loser workouts. Other days it was only Biggest Loser.

It's hard to say when you could start adding other ones without knowing your disposition and fitness level. If pushing yourself makes you want to quit then I would say be very cautious of adding on more but if you're mentally up for more then just go for it. If you have to stop half way through then so be it. Next time, do it again and eventually you'll be able to do 2 hours, and even more if you have the time and desire.

Good luck and stick with it!

I did L1D2 today. I didn't want to so I wasn't going to...but I finally talked myself into it 3 hours later. I didn't have to rest today but I did want to cry during the circuit 3 abs.

A few questions... Say I make it to L2D5 and don't do it for three days. Do you then start back at L1D1, L2D1 or continue on where you left off?

Does anyone else's hammer hit their anvil in their ear when doing jump ropes and jumping jacks? I've had this for as long as I remember and it's painfully loud and annoying to have banging around in there.

The other thing I was wondering if anyone had a problem with is a little hard to explain. I understand that cardio work makes it harder to breath but doing certain exercises which are much easier for my lungs & heart to take sometimes makes me feel like the wind is getting lightly knocked out of me with every movement. There's more than one exercise that does this but the one on level 1 that does it to me is when you get in a squat position and punch. Very easy movement but it just really does weird things to my lungs. Its difficult to breath in a fluid way becasue my breaths get cut off repeatedly, like my wind pipe is closing off and my breathing sounds very different, like when someone breaths through a straw. I have asthma so I know how that feels and it's got similar qualities but it's also very different than an asthma related breathing problem. Like I said, it's really hard to explain it. Any clues as to what that is? Does that happen to anyone else?