Okay I did workout 9 last night and 90% of that sucker is in plank it seems like. It would have been easier for me if my foot where I cracked a bone in it a few years ago wasn't hurting from the cold @$$ weather that came in last night (its 9 degrees now but the wind chill makes it feel -20) and if my boyfriend wasn't taking up half my workout space playing with the dog. It is HARD though. There are things called dive bombs where you are in down dog position and then move into an updog position by pushing your head forward. I had a hard time with those and I could not do rock n' roll squats, which are doing a squat, then going down to the floor, doing a backwards crunch and then popping back up on your feet. Its mostly body weight work. We used the resistance band once and I think we only used weights, 5's and 3's twice. It's going to be do-able eventually, just this was the roughest first night workout I've had this whole time.

For workout 9 the plyos aren't terrible. I know in workout 10 you do jump lunges, which hurt my knees when I did them before in 30 Day Shred - but that was when I was first starting to workout and my knees have gotten somewhat better since then. Also you can modify them by just switching legs and not going down in the lunge. I haven't done 10 and Cardio 3 yet. I will let you know how the plyo feels for those, but with 9 it didn't hurt my knees at all. Now my quads and shoulders are hurting, but there are a LOT of planks and holding chair pose, then the friggen squat jacks which kill your quads. I know in workout 10 for cardio you hold your weights a lot for it to make things harder. Oh and the warm up for workout 9 is rough. High kicks, mountain climbers, jumping jacks, and something else (I can't remember). 9 is a beast. But the only bad pain I got from it was in my wrists from all the plank poses, none of the plyo was too rough.

I hear ya!!! OMG my knees and foot have been killing me with this weather! I'm so stiff. After like the first 2 circuts I'm warm to where I can move fine but before that its rough. My boyfriend must run hot or something because he keeps setting the thermostat at 68 and is STILL hot. I'm over there worrying that if I go to the bathroom it will come out as ice cubes because I'm so cold.

Your body will get a lot stronger and be able to handle workout 9 when you get to it. I know if I had skipped Phase 2 and went to Phase 3 after 1, I wouldn't have been able to do hardly any of this. Workout 10 isn't bad. I actually liked it. It works your hammies and glutes like crazy. Lots of plyo in it. And LOTS of different squats. It wasn't too bad doing the plyo, I actually didn't have problems with it like I did back when I did 30 Day Shred or Ripped in 30, so the program has helped some of my joint problems.

Oh man. My old apartment was like that. I hated that place. My knees and ankles hurt sooooo bad last night I almost didn't do Cardio 3. But I sucked it up and they stopped hurting around the beginning of the 3rd circut. lol I really wish this cold would go away or at least be not AS cold. Cardio 3 would have been easier had they not been so stiff and painful for most of it.

I really liked Phase 2, a lot better than Phase 1. Phase 3 so far is rough. Cardio 3 is pretty much all plyometrics. I can't really do crab kicks that well and the 3rd time of squat jacks made me want to die. But I made it through the whole thing and I only paused between circuts to drink. I did take a few 5 second breaks to not really catch my breath but because my leg muscles were hurting bad from all the jumping! Workout 9 is the devil. Workout 10 I actually like quite a bit. You do feel like your butt is going to fall off your body after it. Lots of different variations of squats. Workout 5 was the hardest for me in Phase 2, but you'll be able to do it and you'll be very happy with the results your get with phase 2.

Yeah my knees didn't bother me that much last year. I think it is colder this year.

Oh yeah squat jumps don't go away. They are in Cardio 3 and Workout 10, except with weights. They get easier as your body gets used to them. But they are still crappy. I HATE plank hops. You are in plank and then jump your feet to your hands and then back into plank. That move can go die in a fire.

I'm on Week 10! 2 more weeks after this!!! The hardest 2 workouts. Oh god....I'm terrified. lol

That's good!!!! Yeah I liked all of Phase 2 workouts better than 1. That one circut in 5 with the crab dips. Oh god, my shoulders were burning during that.

omg yeah!!! My balance is crap anyway and then having to squat on one leg. Oh man. In 9 you do a one legged squat and then walk out into plank. Getting down and out to plank I can (finally) do, but coming back up and staying on one foot, that hasn't happened yet and probably won't. lol

Its more like 5 or 6 breaths and some crying and falling all over the place. lol Its a LOT of core muscles working and your quads. You stand on one leg, go down slowly in a squat on one leg, then bend over and put your hands on the floor, walk it out to plank - still on one leg - hold in plank for a second, then walk your hands back, push yourself up into a squat, and come up. You do it 4 times on one leg, then switch. I've noticed doing yoga and stuff that if you stare at one point (like yourself in the mirror) its a lot easier holding your balance. Its just harder to stare at one point when you're moving!

I know some of them I wish they would slow down a bit, especially when it comes to wrapping the cord around your feet, but whatever. The one legged squat plank doesn't really hurt me until the 3rd time on the 2 go around of the circut. You do one side, then hold chair pose for 30 seconds, then do the other leg, so that last time around your quads are angry. But hard, yeah, especially coming back up to a standing position. I'm always falling all over the place. lol Anytime I lose my balance I tend to blurt out a cuss word. My boyfriend has said sometimes it sounds like I have tourettes. lol

Yes a lot!! When I did workout 9 the first time, which is probably my least favorite workout out of all of them so far, every time she says "get into plank", which is pretty much every exercise in that one, I'd drop a cuss word. lol

Ugh yeah I don't like plank rows. She has those in her other DVDs too. Those suck. I keep hearing about it Phase 3 on the internet in places I've read reviews about Body Revolution about a wheel push up. It must be in workouts 11 or 12 because I haven't done it yet and I don't know what it is, but it seems like everyone hates that move. I'm watching 11 and 12 on Sunday since I will start those here next week and find out.

I know right?!!?! Sometimes when I watch them I'm like, please that's easy. Some of the stuff I've done before in her other DVDs so I think its no big deal. But it is because in her other DVDs you aren't doing the same muscles all at once. Also I've though every now and again watching the DVDs "HA sucks to be them!" when I see them struggling, then I realize that it will suck to be me in a few days. lol

Yeah I don't even know what a wheel push up is. I googled it and see people with the little wheel with handles doing stuff but that isn't something she had us get for the program so that's not it.