jillian michaels 30 day shred for men???

Men can definitely do it! Get some weights that suit your fitness level and it will definitely give you a workout!
Also, fun fact- if Jillian annoys you, there's an option in the "audio settings" on the dvd to mute her and just play music. It's good that they were thinking ahead in that regard :laugh:

I was leary to try it because it's a work out for women...it kicked my butt!!! It's an awsome straight to the point cardio workout that makes your heart want to jump out of your chest!!! Try It...you'll enjoy it.

I started it yesterday. OMG it's alot harder than i thought. I felt like i was gonna collapse after 13 minutes.

Me too. I felt like throwing up for well over an hour after it was over.

Men can do it too! There was a pretty great thread on here not too long ago where a man posted his before&after pics from doing the 30 Day Shred - he said he used anywhere from 5-30 lb weights and his pics showed a really big difference! That's the thing that got my DH to finally do the workout with me - seeing a man get results from it. My DH gets a great workout from it, granted he's a beginner like me but it's only been 2 weeks and he's already seeing results. Plus he burns like 400 calories for the 27 minutes so that's a plus. :-) Just go ahead and use the biggest weights you can handle for the exercises and go for it.

Any guys that have done the shred (or girls who know guys that have )... how heavy were the weights that you used the first time through? My boyfriend would like to join me, but we aren't sure what would be good for him (he's pretty athletic and strong, but he's never really done more cardio-based lifting before).

Thanks!

Any guys that have done the shred (or girls who know guys that have )... how heavy were the weights that you used the first time through? My boyfriend would like to join me, but we aren't sure what would be good for him (he's pretty athletic and strong, but he's never really done more cardio-based lifting before).

Thanks!

Honestly, you might want to just take him to the store and have him pick up a few different weights and do some quick basics (bicep curl, tricep extension, overhead press) and let him pick out a couple that are challenging but doable. I think my husband was using between 8-15 lbs the first time through. 15 was the biggest we had at the time. Now we are doing a different program and he doesn't use anything smaller than 15 lbs. He was not athletic when we started though, yours might need bigger weights right from the start but it's hard to judge exactly what they need w/o letting them try some out first. You might even benefit from just getting him a really good adjustable set that goes up to like 40-50lbs each, that way he has 'room to grow' w/o you having to shell out cash on new sets of dumbbells when he feels ready to move on to bigger weights or a different program that calls for heavier weights. I wish I'd gotten us an adjustable set instead of wasting money buying more and more dumbbells all the time. Not that you're going to be going TOO big on Jillian's programs, b/c honestly you're doing a bajillion reps, but they would be good to have anyway.

Any guys that have done the shred (or girls who know guys that have )... how heavy were the weights that you used the first time through? My boyfriend would like to join me, but we aren't sure what would be good for him (he's pretty athletic and strong, but he's never really done more cardio-based lifting before).

Thanks!

Honestly, you might want to just take him to the store and have him pick up a few different weights and do some quick basics (bicep curl, tricep extension, overhead press) and let him pick out a couple that are challenging but doable. I think my husband was using between 8-15 lbs the first time through. 15 was the biggest we had at the time. Now we are doing a different program and he doesn't use anything smaller than 15 lbs. He was not athletic when we started though, yours might need bigger weights right from the start but it's hard to judge exactly what they need w/o letting them try some out first. You might even benefit from just getting him a really good adjustable set that goes up to like 40-50lbs each, that way he has 'room to grow' w/o you having to shell out cash on new sets of dumbbells when he feels ready to move on to bigger weights or a different program that calls for heavier weights. I wish I'd gotten us an adjustable set instead of wasting money buying more and more dumbbells all the time. Not that you're going to be going TOO big on Jillian's programs, b/c honestly you're doing a bajillion reps, but they would be good to have anyway.

Wow, thanks for the great advice. Sadly, I did not even know that there were adjustable weights! I appreciate the response!

My hubby did the Shred and Ripped in 30. He saw great results.

My military boyfriend was making fun of my 30DS video, so I made him do it with me when he got home from Afghanistan. He was exhausted and admitted it was a great workout. I am missing my 30DS video, and I suspect that it's over at his house... ;-)