DVDs - can they really work?

I have been doing the 30 day shred by Jillian Michaels and have seen great results with it and the only thing you need is some hand weights. Also if you look on here a lot of people have seen great results from it as well. I have lost not only weight but also inches.

Try and look up Jillian Michaels dvds on Amazon/Ebay. I can say that I have a couple of her DVDs and they offer a great variety of workouts which are fairly easy to follow and can push you to challenege yourself. I have a limited amount of space available to workout at home but these DVDs are perfect for me!!

When I was using dvds all the time , I saw great results with The Firm dvds..

I agree. Jillian Michaels DVD's are cheap and they really give you a great workout! I am sore after them, but they really make you feel good!

Between DVD's and my treadmill I only workout at home now.

You can also look up workouts online. Running basically cost no money either.

i've tried p90x and insanity but Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred is the best. It's short, not boring, and it gets your heart rate up AND you see changes very fast. I still go to the gym 4-5 days a week but its nice to switch it up

I only use DVDs as well - I used to belong to a gym, but I got bored there easily and it just wasn't worth the money. Beachbody.com has some great DVD fitness programs, although they can be a bit pricey. I've seen them on amazon and ebay for cheaper, so that might be worth a shot.

Agree with others about the 30 day shred, I've also used some Davina Mc Call ones which are good, and you can often pick up on ebay for £5 - the 3 3o min workout has a couple of good ones in, but I'm getting better results from the shred, probably because I'm doing it every day.

Ditto the Jillian Michaels 30 day shred - I did it for 10 days a couple of months ago and had amazing results - then I fell down the stairs and hurt my knee/ shoulder but an back on it now. Her moves are simple yet get your heart rate way up. Plus they are in 25 minute sections so easy to fit into your day.

I also tried the MoS DVDs and whilst I liked the music the people just annoyed the living daylights out of me!

My friend swears by the Davina DVDs - maybe give them a try?

I only use DVDs and I have had great success. I have 30 day shred, but my preference is The Firm workouts. (Favorite instructors: Allie, Allison, Rebecca, Kelsey. I CANNOT STAND Emily.)

It's about how much effort you put into it

If you have Sky TV, there is a fitness channel. I sky+ some of the exercise routines so I don't always do the same fitness regime. I also mix between Natalie Cassidy and Davina MacCall's fitness DVDs. Together with walking about 3-4 miles a day they work for me. I have lost 34lb in 5 months.

I agree, the gym is overrated and overpriced. I use to be forever at the gym before I had children, just not able to do it anymore.

Heck ya DVDs can work....the hard part is finding one that inspires you to actually pop it in the DVD player and do it. LOL :laugh:

Seriously tho, I know a lot of people love 30 Day Shred so I went out and got it. I apparently am not one of the people who loves this video, LMAO! Nor do I love all the other videos I have........

Except for my latest addition, for which I need to thank MFP for exposing me to. That would be beachbody's ChaLEAN Extreme. I think the reason I love this DVD series so much is that it's not an aerobic workout. It's 99% strength training. On top of that, the chick who runs the video is just awesome. She's fun, motivational, peppy....not in the usual, annoying way that most women present themselves in these videos. She's just an all around awesome chick who I'd probably enjoy knowing in real life.

The DVD series stretches across several disks and comes with a three month schedule, instructing you to do certain workouts on certain days. I kid you not, I was seeing differences in my body after the very first workout. Now I'm a week in, and I have noticed muscles I've never seen before. This will be odd sounding, but I noticed last night when I was having a coughing fit (thanks, seasonal allergies), that the muscles on my stomach don't seem to come up as one big muscle anymore....I could feel tiered muscles instead....you know, like what you see when people have 6-pack abs?? Granted, I've got a blubber layer masking those muscles, but it was very exciting to be able to feel those specific muscles underneath the chub for the first time in my life, and I'll take any small signs of progress, I'm not picky, LMAO!



The moves in these dvds are simple. I am by no means a dancer, so many (ok, all) of the aerobic videos I've done left me standing there trying to figure out what the hell these people are doing with their bodies, rather than being able to follow along. That's not the case with Chalean Extreme, and probably another reason why I love these videos so much.

The set is kind of pricey, but it's well worth it in my opinion, because I'm actually LOVING the series, and I'm DOING the videos. I've easily got triple the amount of money I spent on this set wasted on other, cheaper videos, sitting on the shelf collecting dust.

i lost 30lbs doing ONLY dvd workouts - ranging from 20-mins to 60-mins roughly 6 days a week - the weight came off in less than 6 months, losing 1-2lbs a week (as recommended) and i NEVER got bored and TRUST me when i say there was a SIGNIFICANT amount of sweat pouring off my body as well as a serious increase in heart rate

the only workouts i have ever really REALLY loved, look forward to, and stuck with for years, are Turbo Jam, Turbo Fire, and Chalene Extreme. Turbo Jam is a combination of martial arts, kickboxing, and hip hop/ dance moves - it's freaking awesome :happy: Turbo Jam is the program i used to lose the 30lbs, that's all i did until roughly a year and a half later when i "upgraded" to Turbo Fire, which uses the same fundamentals as Turbo Jam but with a major kick in intensity and tempo (and therefore, calorie burn and heart rate haha). both the Turbo programs come with strength training, but it's not the main focus, they are more cardio based programs. i got Chalene Extreme (CLX) because it's intense strength training with the same trainer from the Turbo workouts (Chalene Johnson, who i ADORE ). now i still workout 6 days a week, still from 20-60mins, doing Turbo Fire for cardio and CLX for strength and i have kept off the 30lbs as well as gotten stronger and way more toned!

sooooooo..... long story short (hehe :laugh: ) dvd workouts are the bomb digitiy if you ask me! i'd recommend NOTHING else in fact! what's better than rolling out of bed at 6:00 am to enter your own personal gym (i.e., living room, guest bedroom haha) with no worries about what you're wearing, who else is there, if you have to wait for a machine, etc - and all you have to do is PUSH PLAY! :happy:

I have been using Davina McCall's Power of 3 and Body Buff and I am pleased with them plus I sweat like a pig whilst doing the DVD so feel like I have worked out hard, In 4 months I have lost 19lb but for 2 of those months I could not excercise because of Foot Tendonitis but for the last week have been getting back into excercise. Did by the 30 Day shred but I found that the next day I could hardly move so will give that DVD a miss for a while until the body feels it can cope with it.