30 Day Shred

I personally can't wait to try this myself! I'm afraid to as i'm on the second floor of a 116 year old house, and just walking sounds like a stampede to those downstairs, haha. I hear Jillian delivers, but kicks your butt. I've done Zumba before as well, I have the Exhilerate set and I love that too!

I'm on day 18 of 30DS. This is my 4th time attempting 30DS and this is actually the furthest I've ever made it without quitting.

My Dilemma: I have found that I get bored too easily on 30DS because each level is 10 days long so I modified and did only 8 days on each level 1 and 2 because I hit boredom so I'm only doing it for 24 days (8 days p/ level).

I also don't do it every day, but I try to work out 3-4 times a week. Sometimes I do 30DS, sometimes I do kickboxing and sometimes I do just weights, and sometimes I just hit my 10K steps on fitbit - depends on the mood.

Results: I have not lost ANY weight, in fact I might have gained weight. But I'm not worried about the scale because gaining muscle will increase the scale and in the long run will be better anyway. I know lots of people who did lose weight but inches are what you want to look at. I'm trying not to measure until the end. I'm going to take progress photos probably tomorrow (just because this was my spring break and I did double workouts each day so I want to take a photo before I go back to teaching the little imps and see how I look) and then again at the end. I'm hoping to see some results. I don't feel like I LOOK different, but I feel stronger and sexier. I Feel like my stomach MIGHT be a little flatter, but I don't know and my husband has commented that my arms look definitely more toned. So that's a plus.

Recommendations of Other Videos: If you like the layout of 30 DS I recommend trying Ripped in 30 next - another JM 20 minute workout that does the same 3-2-1 system (which I love). Ripped is 4 levels, 1 week per level (better if you get bored easily). I like it a lot.

Also recommend checking out Jillian's Kickbox FastFit. It has 3 Kickboxing routines, each at 20 minutes (which is awesome) and they FLY BY! Most of the time I'm like "what? We're on cool down already?" The 3 workouts are set to focus on #1 Upper Body, #2 Lower Body, and #3 Abs. I am not a huge fan of #3 because I don't think there's as much kickboxing as I like, but #1 and #2 are awesome.

I'm a bit JM fan. I find her generally encouraging, plus the mix of cardio + weights makes me happy.

I'm on day 7 and I'm doing the workout on every day that I am not doing some other type of excercise that burns a similar amount of calories. I won't lie, I hurt. Shoulders and arms are sore. But I am keeping it going. I'm also not measuring weight until the end of the whole thing, but considering the calorie burn (around 250) for me, I can't imagine it is going to be a huge loss. BUT....I have no doubt there will be fat loss and muscle gain, there simply has to be muscle building with this soreness. I'll post my stats here when I finish on the 9th of May!

I do second the boredom of 10 days on the same level. I can quote all her witty little motivational phrases as we go along....I kind of want to punch her int he face for some of them. "You don't get to the finish line and quit"....um yeah...I do. Becasue that means I'm done hence the word "FINISH".

But I love that it kicks my *kitten*, it is more strength than I was doing before, and it is certainly a challenge!

I just finished day two of level one and I am sore! Stairs are my enemy right now cuz those squats and lunges are kicking my butt, quite literally. I have a formal event on day 29 in which I am wearing a gown so I'm aiming for everyday workouts until then.

Tomorrow will be day 30... I will take my measurements and let you know the results... I have been exercising 29 days a head with no rest..

hey.. i've lost 4.5 cm from my waist .. 2 cm from my breast ... and 2 cm from my tummy .. 2 cm thigh

I lost a total of 4 lbs when I did 30 day shred. (Scale went up and down the whole time) But I also dropped like 2 clothing sizes. When people ask, I ALWAYS recommend it since that is the workout that did the most in terms of body change for me in a short amount of time. Day 6 of T25 right now so maybe that will change..

Best I've ever looked was after 25 days of 30DS! My best friend and I did 4 days Level 1, 6 days Level 2 and 10 days Level 3.

I've not been able to do it since (that was about a year ago) cos I moved house and my new place is about the size of cupboard, but I'm dyiiiiing to get back to it!

I was actually looking over my results pics this morning:

(This was literally just 30DS. No extra cardio cos I hate running, and just a normal, healthy 3-meal a day diet. And I have literally no idea how much weight I lost cos our scales were broken! I did go down from a 12 to a 10 in UK jean sizes though )