30 Day Shred by Jillian Micheals

I have the same question so hopefully someone can help. I searched all over online and found a few different things saying that people burnt 200-260 calories doing the shred. I'm not sure what level that is. But I just put it as 200 calories under my exercise program. I certainly feel like I'm burning more than that though.

Just wanted you to know that I bought a HR/CAL monitor yesterday and used it while doing she Shred workout this morning and it was pretty close to 200. Actually, and unfortunately it was a little less, but what you burn all depends on your weight and effort put into it so maybe you are burning more. I am petite so I knew I would be on the smaller end of the CAL burned but didn't realize it would be less. I am so bummed. I start P90X on Monday and I'm hoping I'll burn a ton doing those because other people say they are burning 400-600 per workout. I would love that!!!

I did Shred last year....after not working out for a few years. It was wickedly hard, but oh so effective. It does only burn like 200-250 calories, but that's because it's only 20 minutes You can't realistically expect more than about 10 calories a minute for busting your butt - and most exercises that are less intense are about half that rate. So I still highly recommend that program to beginners or anyone who needs quick workouts. I lost about 10 lbs that first month with Shred.

I started P90x this year. It's a lot more intense than Shred, but if I hadn't done the Shred program (and all the other BL stuff) last year, there is no way I could do X now. I couldn't even do a push up before Shred! Now I can do the dozens X has you do every other day - plus pull ups!

ps Don't be detered by my meager loss in my ticker - I gained a lot of weight recently from medication.

The key is to get a HRM...I have been doing 30 DS for about 3 weeks, am on level 3, and am shocked at how much I burn fluctuates from day to day!

I am 5'3" and weigh 164 and my hrm says I burn right at 200 but then you take into account the calories I would have burned during those minutes anyways and subtract them so comes out to about 170 calories burned that I can actually claim.