Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Exercise

Chat to other fitness enthusiasts on our Exercise forum.

Original poster

30-day Shred - class of June 2014

362 replies

yadahyadah · 03/06/2014 15:38

Looking for a reason to get yourself in shape for the summer? Join the Shred Thread for tips, tricks and a place to log your achievements.

OP posts:
BetterWithCheese · 13/06/2014 11:19

Ri30 L1D3 done. It's not getting easier exactly but I feel like I'm doing better at it. But you know there's no need to be perfect - "Perfect sucks! Perfect is boring!", that's my quote of the day Grin

Original poster
yadahyadah · 13/06/2014 08:11

Ri30 L4D3 done. Kids were playing up in between tho today so there was a bit of strangled order giving from me. Not as fun as a result. But I did it pretty well. Now for the rest of my morning. PS - Errol have been following that 16:8 method of eating and it seems to suit me so far. Might have a breakfast over the weekend just to give myself a little break but I think it might be the way forward for the likes of me - it has kept me off the crisps too as I have been eating salami and jerky thanks to tips from Lambzig and co. So thanks for all that. Have a good weekend.

OP posts:
ImogenQuy · 13/06/2014 07:12

Yes, tabulahrasa, from the hips up I mostly look like blancmange (chocolate blancmange in my case!). Reasonably slim but flabby, sadly...

30DSL3D2 done. Not quite as successful as yesterday - fell over my own feet doing the mountain climbers, and my lower back wouldn't let me do the pike crunch following Natalie.

tabulahrasa · 12/06/2014 22:48

I'll be happy with just not looking like blancmange Grin

ErrolTheDragon · 12/06/2014 22:19

Given that I'm 5'1 and 53, its fortunate that I have no desire to look like Natalie! Grin

ImogenQuy · 12/06/2014 22:06

Good point, yadah - I ought to be grateful that I've got a fit (ish) healthy body that will do what I need it to do. But looking like Natalie would be a bonus.

Original poster
yadahyadah · 12/06/2014 21:57

I feel the same about being fit but not being a babe in the Natalie Anita etc mode. But it is so so nice to feel that sense of muscular strength returning to me after all the baby making flab years. I used to be a circuit training yoga and swimming fiend with cycling a 50-min each way daily commute and some running in the mix too. At the time I remember thinking what more do I have to do to lose that bit of residual chunk? But this time around, I am just so pleased to recognise that strong capable body again. I feel like my old self is being returned to me and I am really pleased about it.
That said, the fkg bagel belly must go.

PS Felix - that's it - you are in the zone. Well done.

OP posts:
ImogenQuy · 12/06/2014 21:48

Well done, Felix!

There isn't space to exercise in the room where our computer lives, yadah, so I bought the DVDs. The Shred hasn't been wasted, at least. And as Errol wisely points out, I can always fast forward through the bonkers bits.

Original poster
yadahyadah · 12/06/2014 21:43

I haven't bought Ripped Imogen - levels 1-3 are on youtube and level 4 on Vimeo.

Same for Shred. I couldn't face spending money and then failing to stick to the routine so I stuck to online versions.

The motivational stuff is not that bad in levels 1-3 but she gets on a bit of a roll in L4. But as Lambzig said, you can just forward the bonkers bit as it is during a supposed relaxation that she hits you right between the eyes with her theories of self worship and world domination. It does make me laugh wryly through the rivulets of sweat tho, as it borrows from that yogic tradition of a meditative gathering of self post practice but because it's ole JM instead of being about thinking like a mountain, it ends up being about thinking like a megalomaniac sergeant major.

OP posts:
ImogenQuy · 12/06/2014 21:41

Exactly, Lambzig. I've got the skin colour, more or less, but nothing else. I'm short-waisted, short-legged and generally just short really. My brother's favourite insult for me growing up was "squat"! (Admittedly I've never been a marathon-running gym bunny - but I was pretty slim as a teenager, and I'm not fat now.)

FelixFelix · 12/06/2014 21:40

30DSL1D4 done! I've never got past day 3 so I'm really proud of myself Smile And I was going to skip it today as I've been mega busy but I forced myself to do it after my tea/putting dd to bed, and I feel so good for it. I'm starting to enjoy this exercise thing. I'm even considering getting the Couch to 5k app. What have I become?! BlushGrin

Lambzig · 12/06/2014 21:37

Yes I think one of the most depressing things for me 15 years ago when I was a super fit, marathon running, rowing club gym bunny (and a tad obsessive)was that I still had my body with short legs, fat knees and a weird fat bit at the back above my bottom that nothing shifts. I would never look like Natalie in a million years.

ErrolTheDragon · 12/06/2014 21:05

I only listened to that bit once. DVDs have pause, FF and stop buttons! Grin

ImogenQuy · 12/06/2014 20:42

Don't like the sound of the motivational stuff on RI30 - will I regret buying it? The Shred isn't too bad (though if I have to see her pointing at Natalie and saying "if you want to look like this, you have to work like that" one more time I may throw something at her: I'm not going to look like Natalie unless she has a potion to make me grow nine inches taller!).

Original poster
yadahyadah · 12/06/2014 20:41

Tee hee. I wish. Just for the damn abs ...

OP posts:
Lambzig · 12/06/2014 20:26

Yadah are you sure you are not JM in disguise?

tabulahrasa · 12/06/2014 15:37

Fat crying? rofl

Well I suppose that would explain why there's quite so much sweat...

AnyaKnowIt · 12/06/2014 12:57

Ha ha I've never heard that!

Just wish it would stop crying and piss off tbh Grin

Original poster
yadahyadah · 12/06/2014 12:54

Anyaknowit didn't someone once say sweat is just fat crying? Keeps me going ... Grin

OP posts:
AnyaKnowIt · 12/06/2014 12:48

30dsl3d5 done, still sweat bloody loads!

tabulahrasa · 12/06/2014 11:57

Ri30L2D3

I'm hating the whole thing today, I'm tired and achey, but I did it.

I can cope with the psychobabble...it's the trying to bite people that's annoying, it was amusing the first day, now I just want her to stop, lol

My dog is indeed on the up Grin

Sorelip · 12/06/2014 11:47

Ri30L2D3 done today. Crow push ups are the devil's work. And I cannot for the life of me climb up my leg.

Original poster
yadahyadah · 12/06/2014 11:10

Haha Lambzig and Betterwithcheese. My Dd started imitating JM in 7-year-old style with phrases like "you have to show up on time. You are the most important person ever," etc - made I laugh.

Agree Lambzig the second circuit cardio is hardcore but overall the bad bits are interspersed with some nice bits. Or maybe, no we've been broken we are stronger in the places where we were broken ... Err... Confused

OP posts:
BetterWithCheese · 12/06/2014 10:26

Ri30 L1D2 done. Very, very sweaty today. I quite like the workout but may need to mute Jillian "most people don't even show up in their own lives, blah, blah, blah. It definitely works the hamstrings more than 30DS.

tabulah hope your doggie is doing better.

Lambzig · 12/06/2014 10:04

Oh and yadah, are you snapped in half so that you will never be broken again? It's clear that her, er um........, self esteem has improved in between shred and ripped.