Finished day 3 today and I still cannot do the full 20 minutes without taking breaks. Hopefully I will still lose some inches. I also find that when I do the jump rope part, my shins start to hurt. Even though I take breaks, I am proud of myself for exercising since I haven't in a long time.

Finished my DAY 3 and DAY 4.
I still cannot do much on push up. I need to really work on those.
One thing I noticed. At end of DAY 1 I was pretty sore and during the DAY 2 workout I had some control over my movements (during strength and abs)!
I was not sore during my DAY 3 workout and I had to try very very hard to keep my form.
May be being a little sore is actually good. May be it is the muscle-memory which helped me!
I have to take breaks in between and try not to take more than 5 seconds....
Looking forward to DAY 5....
:happy:

Just finished Day 3 - My DVD arrived today so thankfully I had no dodgy internet connection to deal with.

Finding the push-ups (the easy version!) and the bicycle crunches at the end terrible, but managing everything else much better. Funny, my abs haven't been hurting so I was doubting whether I was doing the ab exercises correctly...so I made extra effort tonight and am hoping I am doing them right. I was a bit stiff today - not too bad, and I am hoping that I will be better tomorrow and hopefully find the workout a bit easier. At least I am getting through it even if at times I am finding it a bit unpleasant. I guess that because it is only 20 minutes or so and is broken into 3,2, and 1 minute sections helps you to push to the end of each exercises...like as if the end is always in sight and lots of mini-ends if that makes sense. Well done to everyone who is doing this - whatever day you are on. The main thing is that we are sticking with it!!! Good luck for tomorrow!

I love that 3,2 and ! it really helps to get trough it

Well....

I had put the video on hold with my library cause I wanted to try it out before buying it. When it came in the other day and I did day 1 and 2 I didn't think about the fact that we are going to Hawaii next week and movies can only be kept out for 1 week. So I had to return it. I was soooo sore after day 1 that I had to wait a day before trying day 2. I could barely walk or more my arms and after sitting for a few minutes my legs hurt to stand up. I had to modify the jumping jacks, pushups, and fake jump roping things. I was sad. I used to be able to do 150 pushups in less then 3 minutes

However...

When we get back from Hawaii I am going to get it again and start again and actually buy the weights (that was another sad part that it was so hard for me and I didn't even have the weights). Today we went to Ross to get a couple new shirts for our plane trip to Hawaii and Tshirt to wear around the island. My SO found this pink Hurley Tshirt that he really likes and wanted me to get but it was only in 1x and I wear 2x in shirts (I am well endowed up top lol) I tried it on and its really doesn't flatter my stomach at ALL. So I am going to take a before picture in that shirt and do the whole 30 days and then hopefully the after picture in that shirt will look better. Hopefully. I rarely buy new clothes unless I absolutely have to and when I do they are usually cheap whatever I can get on clearance at Walmart clothes, so buying a $9 shirt from Ross that I can't even wear yet is a big thing for me and darned if I let that money get wasted, lol. Maybe that will work for motivation for me.

Oh and it was also discouraging that my HRM said I only burned 221 calories during all of that. I felt like I was going to pass out and I only burned 221 calories What?!!!! A 30 minute hike burns 300 at least for me so feeling like I am going to die should definitely be more then that or so I thought.

Just got my 30DS today!!! So i will be starting tomorrow....im really looking forward to getting back on track after the my last few days...been eating like crap and havent exercised for 2 days i will be going on vacation next thursday so i may not be able to do the video friday, sat or sun (unless i do it sunday night) Well i will post how i feel tomorrow night...SO EXCITED!!!!

Well....

I had put the video on hold with my library cause I wanted to try it out before buying it. When it came in the other day and I did day 1 and 2 I didn't think about the fact that we are going to Hawaii next week and movies can only be kept out for 1 week. So I had to return it. I was soooo sore after day 1 that I had to wait a day before trying day 2. I could barely walk or more my arms and after sitting for a few minutes my legs hurt to stand up. I had to modify the jumping jacks, pushups, and fake jump roping things. I was sad. I used to be able to do 150 pushups in less then 3 minutes

However...

When we get back from Hawaii I am going to get it again and start again and actually buy the weights (that was another sad part that it was so hard for me and I didn't even have the weights). Today we went to Ross to get a couple new shirts for our plane trip to Hawaii and Tshirt to wear around the island. My SO found this pink Hurley Tshirt that he really likes and wanted me to get but it was only in 1x and I wear 2x in shirts (I am well endowed up top lol) I tried it on and its really doesn't flatter my stomach at ALL. So I am going to take a before picture in that shirt and do the whole 30 days and then hopefully the after picture in that shirt will look better. Hopefully. I rarely buy new clothes unless I absolutely have to and when I do they are usually cheap whatever I can get on clearance at Walmart clothes, so buying a $9 shirt from Ross that I can't even wear yet is a big thing for me and darned if I let that money get wasted, lol. Maybe that will work for motivation for me.

Oh and it was also discouraging that my HRM said I only burned 221 calories during all of that. I felt like I was going to pass out and I only burned 221 calories What?!!!! A 30 minute hike burns 300 at least for me so feeling like I am going to die should definitely be more then that or so I thought.

I have to modify the jumping jacks too. My double D's hurt when I do it! lol I could do the modified push ups, but my knees were killing me! I did the fake jump ropes too. I noticed if I faked those, I wasn't getting my heart rate up. Instead, I'd jog in place or do some punches.

Hey Gang,
I plan to start Day 1 on Weds, I'll let you all know how it goes for me. I've done a few days with her in the past and all I can say is, wowww, it's a good workout! When I tried for the first time to do it, which was a couple years back, I only lasted a few minutes of it:blushing: :laugh: So when I tried a couple weeks ago and did it for a couple days, it definitely made me sore but I got through the whole Section. That's HUGE progress to me, all the extra weight I had on a year or two back made all the difference in the world.

Is everyone doing it daily or is anyone doing it every other day? Curious...

I'll be thinking of you all as I prepare to meet Jillian once again.:bigsmile:

Hearts

I did day 5 last night which means half way through Level 1. I was so tired but I'm glad I did it! When I got dressed this morning I realized that I am no longer in between belt holes but definitively on the smaller one now. Yeah! Keeps me smiling all day. Can't wait for day 6 tonight. Sooo glad I found this group, it came at the perfect time.
Fififox, I hate those bicycle crunches, too. Just can't seem to get it coordinated. Might have to do some practice ones tonight.
Hearts Desire, I do them daily for the most part. I took some days off because I wanted to spend the time with a very close friend who will be moving away in 2 weeks (read as we drank some wine and chatted until past midnight). This will probably happen again. I therefore don't plan any rest days but use thoses as my rest days. Also, if I'm absolutely exhausted/can't move any more I would take the one day off.

ok finally started - day 1 for me this morning...
now i normally do bootcamp which is way way faster then this.. similar work and for 1 hour.
30ds is much slower movements... so i found it tiring on the arms.
have 2 questions.

1) does anyone know how many calories we burn ? someone said ciruit but that came up to the high hundreds... i dont believe that many calories are burnt from doing that ?? help anyone.
2) how heavy are your hand weights ? i only had 2kg each hand so thats probably why i did not struggle so much. want to get heavier but not too sure how many kg i need.

your advice is much apprecited.

ps cant wait till the end of 30 days haha.

ive just done day 4 and although im still finding it hard it wasnt as bad as the first 3 days! im finding that different areas of my body r hurting each day lol first it was my thighs and under my arms then it was my stomach and then this morning it was my bum! hopefully its all the areas toning up!

I did day 5 last night which means half way through Level 1. I was so tired but I'm glad I did it! When I got dressed this morning I realized that I am no longer in between belt holes but definitively on the smaller one now. Yeah! Keeps me smiling all day. Can't wait for day 6 tonight. Sooo glad I found this group, it came at the perfect time.
Fififox, I hate those bicycle crunches, too. Just can't seem to get it coordinated. Might have to do some practice ones tonight.
Hearts Desire, I do them daily for the most part. I took some days off because I wanted to spend the time with a very close friend who will be moving away in 2 weeks (read as we drank some wine and chatted until past midnight). This will probably happen again. I therefore don't plan any rest days but use thoses as my rest days. Also, if I'm absolutely exhausted/can't move any more I would take the one day off.

HEY DID YOU NOTICE ALREADY ON DAY 5 ????? THATS AWESOME!!! are you doing any other excersice.

30DS is basically all I do. I will run up and down the stairs afterwards for 4-5 minutes. I usually go for a little walk during my afternoon coffee break but that doesn't really burn much. I do it more to catch some sun shine and release stress (as an alternative to chocolate). Other than that I can't find the time as my husband is out of town, we have a 3 year old and no family here. Oh and I don't consider walking with my son to the playground at "toddler speed" or cleaning my house exercise.
I use 3 pounds weight only. I give everything when I do it. Somebody just told me that I will regain all my lost weight anyway so I use that as my motivation. And I sometimes might pretend to punch her during the punches
I feel better now (just did day 6) generally and I noticed 30 DS is getting easier. It might help that I wasn't really toned when I started????
Stick with it for a few more days. It will get better. After day 2 I could barely move but then it got better.
MFP says 200 cal for me. I don't have an HRM but I've heard other people reporting similar burns.