30 Day Shred Motivation Thread

Ok here are my final results!! After 30 days of the shred...

SW: 174
CW: 164 (-10lbs yay)

Starting measurements:
waist: 32
hips:38.5
arms: 13 each
thighs: 25 each

Now:
waist: 30
hips: 37
arms: 12
thighs: 23.5

(-6 inches all together!)

I notice the biggest difference in my butt/thighs area. All those squats!! I also notice a difference in my arms. I can see that definition starting to come through again thanks to all those planks!! Most importantly, I feel fantastic and have been working out every day and dont want to stop!! I am going to do another 30 days at least, but throw in a second video and/or running 3 times a week. Good luck to all of you!! I plan to take pics too, so I will post before/ afters!!

I did level one today!! I can't believe I made it through!! I had a about 2 five sec breaks but I pushed myself!!!

Hi! I'm new to this thread. I started the 30 Day Shred 11 days ago. I did 10 days at L1 and i did my first day of L2 today. I don't have a scale and I don't know if I have lost any weight but I can definitely tell a change in my endurance. I did weigh myself at a friends house about 4 or 5 days into the program and I weighed 167. I will get a scale soon to see if any weight has been lost. Happy Shredding to all!

I've heard so many great things about 30 day shred that I went and bought it today. I usually go to the gym on Thursdays, but I can't tonight because my husband has to use my car because his broke down, so I said, fine, then I am going to buy some new DVD's because I am so sick of the ones I have, lol!

So I bought 30 day shred and billy blanks cardio inferno. I'm planning to do both tonight.

So for 30 day shred, are you supposed to do it every day? If so, I think I will start doing it first thing in the morning because I try to go to the gym most nights and am also doing C25K right now, monday-wednesday-friday.

Great job to those of you that are doing it now and have finished it!!

Oh my goodness!!!!! L1D7 done! For some reason today was my hardest day yet! I felt like I was going to keel over and die, but I pushed through and made it. I even resorted to throwing down my 5 lb. weights and grabbing my 3's for the last half of the second set of squat and press. I used 5's for everything else except side lunge with anterior raise.

All I can figure out is that I haven't gotten much sleep the last couple nights, my 8 month old is teething. :ohwell: Then I had to get up this morning and take my hubby to get his wisdom teeth removed, so I am taking care of both my men today. :yawn:

I will go ahead and try to do it tomorrow, but if it doesn't go better I will probably take both Saturday and Sunday off to let my body recuperate. I am still doing the treadmill every day too.

I am so glad to have found this thread!! I am doing the shred for the third time in the past few years and have always gotten great results, but I am worried I won't be able to stay motivated this time but I think this will help. I did level 1 day 3 today and am looking forward to when the results kick in. Good luck to everyone!!

Tonight was only L1D4, even though I actually started last Thursday. Still struggling with the modified pushups although I did quite a few more the first set than I have been. Also still having troubles with those pesky jumping jacks. Bonus though....I actually got through the entire second circuit with the butt kicks, punches, lunges with the bicep curls perfectly. I didn't jump too high during the butt kicks, but I did each and every one of them, as well as each and every lunge!

I also measured myself tonight since it had been a week. I swear I measured in the exact same spots as last week but had a few increases which is strange considering the areas I measured increases are looking smaller to my eye. As well as feeling different in my clothes. Who knows.

Here are comparison measurements from last week:

Waist (jelly belly roll) 2/10/11: 44 2/17/11: 45
Hips: 2/10/11: 51 2/17/11: 50.5
Right arm: 2/10/11: 14.5 2/17/11: 14
Left arm: 2/10/11: 14.5 2/17/11: 14
Chest: 2/10/11: 38 2/17/11: 37.5
Right thigh: 2/10/11: 25.5 2/17/11: 27
Left thigh: 2/10/11: 25.5 2/17/11: 26
FUPA: 2/10/11: 50 2/17/11: 51

O yea, and my favorite part is when she says "up and squeeze...up and squeeze" LOL it just sounds funny to me! I also do her Yoga Meltdown dvd and it is hilarious to me how on L2 when the girls are doing the Goddess and Maddie doesn't get all the way down and she says "Oh thats so good I'm so proud of you Maddie!" and then Maddie laughs but Jillian looks at the camera like "yea right" LOL

I've been doing the meltdown since January so I think that has made doing the 30DS a little easier for me. I definitley started muting Jill and playing my own music during the yoga since I know it now. I can't take listening to her coach us thru the exercise sometimes cuz I just be wanting it to be over and she still be talking!!! LOL

On thhe 30DS the hardest parts for me will always be the lunges with the bicep curls. I just freakin hate that part! And push ups will never get easy for me but today I did one round girl pushups and the second round regular pushups! Yay me!

Checking in! L1D4 down! I took measurements today but I will wait a couple weeks to post any changes. I wish I had taken measurements when I started this fitness journey in September. I'm looking at this workout as the start of a new chapter. Still excited and I love all the wonderful motivation on this site!

I think I'm going to research and try to find any free stretching apps for my iPod touch. That should definitely help. Keep it up everyone!

I did D1 L2 today!! SO HARD!! I actually really dislike L2 because it's really hard on my back (previous injury), and wrist (previous injury), and neck (current injury), but apply ice and heat, and I'll be at it again tomorrow as long as my back doesn't feel any worse. :bigsmile: Stick with it Shredders!!!

HMKan and laura4410... GREAT MEASUREMENTS!!!

do you do the dvd everyday? If so, how do you workout when your body is terribly sore? How am I gonna get through the pushup part if I cant even do one? I wanna be able to do this!! I'm determined.

After a few days, you'll be less sore. If you can't do a full push up, don't! I can't, either.

Ive been doing the 30day shred off and on for a while, I really wanna do it consistently but its so hard.
I have to say after doing 2 days of level 2 in a row i noticed my bicep muscle (i have really skinny arms) so it really motivated me to keep going. I find the planks really hard especially the cardio in level 2.

I was wondering, those who have finished the 30 day shred, what do you do after you finish to maintain the results?
maybe do it 3 or 4 times a week or another video?

I did D1L1 yesterday! I've been working out and going to the gym, but there were definitely parts of the video that were tough for me, plus she makes you move so quick from one thing to the next you really don't get a rest.

After I finished this I did my other new DVD, Billy's Bootcamp - Cardio Inferno, by the end of both of these videos I was pooped.

So, I'm going to try really hard to do 30DS everyday, it's a quickworkout, so I should be able to squeeze it in, in the morning or evening, either way. I'm also doing C25K and am just getting to the long runs, so hopefully I can plan a way to do one in the morning and one at night.

I fell off the wagon this week. I had several tests and combined with my sudden lack of motivation, I just couldn't find time or even wanted to find time to do the workout. I have skipped two days (one of them I played badminton for an hour or so and then went running for an hour), but I am planning on getting back to D4L1 tonight.

D4,L1; I am not a happy camper today! So on D2 I noticed that the tendon (or somthing) behind my left knee hurt when I did jumping jacks..D3 same thing, it hurt so I tried to do the jump rope in place of jumping jacks. Now the tendon or whatever is killing me! I do not want to give up on this work out-every other muscle hurts in a good way! I know I'm supposed to listen to my body but this is so frustrating! I'm doing yoga a few times a week as well, and nothing hurts then-only when I do this dvd! I was thinking of wearing a knee brace but am not sure that will help, since the pain is behind the knee. Does anyone have any tips or ideas for stretches or something?

IMHO, I would rest it for a day or so and see how it feels. You could have pulled something. Doing the following Hamstring stretch might help if you didn't do any serious damage:

Standing position: Keep one leg on ground; put one foot on chair with leg straight. Bend forward at the hip. Hold for 30 seconds. Repeat on other side. *Do not attempt to touch your toes as this will stretch your back, and the goal of this exercise is to isolate your hamstring muscles in the leg that is being supported by the chair.

I so agree with you Steph! I hated level 2 but did stick w/it for 10 days. Am on Day 5 level 3 today and actually like level 3 better than 2. It's those arm Y things at the end of level 2 that I thought were such a killer!!

Robin... Good for you for pushing through L2! My back is sore today, so I'm going to take the day off, and go back to L1 after this. I just can't do L2 with my injury(ies). Maybe I'll look at L3 and see what I can do from there. Or I might do L1, and then do only the moves I can handle from L2. I agree with the arm Y things as well. Super killer!

mamafoofer... Take it easy on the jumping jacks. Maybe try something a little more low impact, but that still gets your heart rate up. Also, it might not be related, but you know that quadricep/thigh stretch at the end, standing on one leg? That could potentially over strain your knee, so be careful on that.