I just don't want to

You might need to go easy on the exercising, ease yourself into it a little better. Try doing it every other day (and definitely not twice in one day) for a few weeks. And if it hurts bad, definitely stop and find a lower impact exercise (e.g. just plain old walking, or biking, or elliptical machine, or swimming). You may not burn as many calories, but you won't be burning many calories at all if you permanently screw up your knees.

You're not supposed to do it twice in one day. You're over-killing. I have knee and other issues sometimes, and if you don't listen to it and slow down (and maybe modify some of the exercises) your body will find a way to make you listen.

I hear she does lunges. These are definite knee-killers for me. Even if my form is awesome. Squats are also a major culprit and should be modified.

I had to stop after day 15. My knees and hips were absolutely killing me and the pain was not going away. I had been doing Zumba for almost 6 months before trying 30 DS, so it wasn't because I was way out of shape. I just don't think it is for people with joint problems. She can say as many times as she wants "there's no modification for jumping jacks", but it is not worth the pain in my book.

Back to Zumba I went. Knees are happy!

Let me tell you a story. Sixty five pounds ago and out of shape, I decided to lose weight. So I thought: I'll take up running. So I opened my closet, put on some old tennis shoes, and went running. On the concrete sidewalk. After 3 days or 4 days, my knees hurt. But I kept going. I wanted to lose weight! After about 7 days, my knees really hurt. I stopped running. I tried the bicycle, but I had really hurt my knees, and they now creaked. Even walking on an incline hurt my knees. It took MONTHS for my knees to feel better.

Moral? I was so gung-ho, I ignored what my body was telling me. Which was that something was amiss. Either I was running with bad form, was running with bad shoes, or was too heavy to go pounding away on concrete...something wasn't right. I paid the price for ignoring the pain.


Its fine for your muscles to hurt. But if your *knees* are hurting, something isn't right. STOP. Either you are doing something with bad form, or your muscles aren't strong enough to support your ligaments or joints. Or maybe, you shouldn't do the DVD twice in a day. But something is amiss, and you need to figure it out. Perhaps skip some of the knee heavy exercises. Or try doing it every other day and see if it helps. But don't keep doing the same thing that's causing you knee pain!

Elid is right. The best thing to do is ease yourself into it. I tried running a while back and ended up hurting my knees so then I had to stop for a while. Since then I've switched to working out on the elliptical and I love it! No pain in the knees. Good luck with it!

I recommend a day off with yoga, like her Yoga Meltdown DVD.

What's happening may just be from what your level of activity was leading up to doing this workout. If you haven't been fairly active, that kind of workout could really hurt you. Also, are you stretching and warming up adequately before you start? I recommend backing off and giving yourself some healing time. Try Glucosamine to lubricate your joints. You can also do some leg exercises or even running in a pool, where your body weight is neutralized, but the water adds resistance. Let yourself heal and build up to this workout. I seriously admire you for taking it on at all.