Hi Sharon,

Oooooh I am feeling your pain. :sad: I pulled my shoulder working through 30 Day Shred Level 3 and again in Body Revolution and I do get sore knees (although this actually has improved in the last few weeks). Obviously I'm still figuring out how to get the most out of Jillian without wrecking myself LOL. I stick with it though because I love the results.

I'm in Workout 7&8 now and determined to get through workouts 11 & 12 injury-free and feeling great, but it will have to be in my own time and with changes to avoid past mistakes. Stuff that seems to work:

* Rest after injury, which you are already doing and which I should have done earlier on.

* Modify like crazy. Funnily enough I don't seem to get injured when I go at my own pace instead of the pace set by professional athlete/dancers who are all in their 20s and 30s. Go figure :laugh: . Also in future I will avoid stuff that I know will hurt my shoulder - any twisty plank moves are a no-no until I'm stronger. (I'm cringing at how obvious all of this sounds in retrospect)

* Glucosamine supplement - holy crap these actually seem to work. I've been taking them for only 3 weeks but my knees/joints are definitely less sore. This could be placebo effect, increased muscle gain leading to less pressure on knees or a combo of the above. My lean body mass is still really low though, so I'm starting from a low baseline, LOL. I've also lost 14 pounds in the last 2 1/2 months and that probably helps too. Overall though, I do think that at least some of the benefit is coming from the glucosamine given that over this time I've also massively increased my high impact exercise intensity and endurance; I'm working through JMBR and the C25K programme at the same time and am on Workout 7/8 of JMBR and am at the end of the 5k training, so running 4-5k distance 3 times a week these days. Normally I would expect a lot of knee pain but right now I have none (!). I've ordered more glucosamine for the winter months.

Also this, which I have just ordered:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/York-Fitness-60034-Pushup-Stands/dp/B000N3T1C2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1411555324&sr=8-3&keywords=push+up+stands

Push up stands to take strain off of wrists - genius. I can't wait to try these.

If anyone else has advice or tips (such as recommendations for modifying certain exercises) I also would love to hear them.

-Boxfish

I've had the JMBR DVD's for about 3 years now. The first year I started (in September), I started having knee pain around the last end of Phase 1, and really started to bother me beginning of Phase 2. I stopped the workouts and the pain went away.

A year later, I started the DVD's again in September, and again, I began to have the knee pain but this time, it was twice as painful . Just walking, sitting down, in the morning. I felt like I was 90 (I'm 28). I started to modify and do other things in place of certain exercises, in hopes I could continue the workouts but the pain was to much. I stopped the DVD's but this time the pain never went away. :grumble:

I ended up going to an Orthopedic to find out what was going on and I had chondromalacia patella in both my knees:noway: . I was advised to stop all exercises and go to a couple of physical therapy appointments to learn what kind of stretching exercises I could do on my own to help my knees. Within a month my pain was gone.

I'm going to start again on Monday but will not do squats/lunges -- those, with the constant repetitive motions is what caused the knee pain.

I'm determined to finish this 12 week program this time around, without pain this time

I'm looking forward to starting again. I seen great results each time I've completed Phase 1. The pain started just around week 2, beginning of week 3. I just youtubed some videos how to modify lunges and squats and I might try that, thinking about the pain makes me cringe haha I'll keep posted on how things are going once I get into it again.

I always threw in an extra workout on the cardio day of some yoga. I usually do vinyasa, but while I'm doing this program I go for something a little slower paced that focuses more on stretching. You could youtube some good shoulder yoga videos and warm up with sun salutations. Personally I don't think her cool downs are long enough for the body to actually cool down properly, so maybe add a 3-5 minute cool down/stretching video at the end, there are TONS online that you can do easily.