30 Day Shred

Thanks @Happyhettie I’m following physio orders and I know walking is the best thing I can do so treadmill and ER it is, with a teeny weeny bit of Jillian to keep me from going crazy!

The pain is nothing new so I’m used to it, if I get any ‘new’ pain then I’ll stop. I’m already feeling the benefit of exercising again, much less stiff and walking better. I can feel the strength is returning to my legs.

Look after that ankle!

Bread, especially toast with butter, is my downfall @IwanttotakeyoutoaNailaBar 😋
Having said that, I might go back to making my own bread again as I find it tastier and more satisfying as I can tinker with it.
I definitely have a six pack under my toast layer, honest 😄

Thanks @IwanttotakeyoutoaNailaBar the plan is to do 10 days and then on to level 2 which I hate but I know works.

Well done for completing the shred. Do you feel better for it as well as looking better?

Well done @Happyhettie how long are you staying at L1 for do think?

I’ve missed 3 days now due to having a cold. Must get back on it.i’’ve done 30 days and DH says I look better. However I’ve also started making my own bread which is fatal. No good having muscles hidden by layers of bread and butter.

L1 D5 completed. Jumping jacks were a bit easier. Did 3 lots jumping but the others were half jacks, being careful with dodgy ankle.

Well done! Sounds like you’ve form the right thing booking the appointment, I’m sorry to hear it’s painful. Are you ok to be exercising?
Once you are bionic, you’ll soon get your fitness back and have a new lease of life but it is frustrating when you’ve done so well last year!
Make sure you’re not over doing it an looking after yourself.

L1 D4 completed. Couldn’t fit it in yesterday with work / family commitments but I did miss it. Got class photos AND now a birthday party to go to in a few weeks. Definitely want to feel better about going out / photos etc. Maybe if I were more social on an ongoing basis, I’d be more motivated?!

ER was brilliant, hope it’s just as enjoyable now. Can’t believe how time has flown.

Day 5 of Beginner 30DS done ✅
Still finding it pretty tough and sad to have lost so much fitness but I will get it back once I get my bionic hip. So glad I bit the bullet and booked in for it as it’s really painful now.

Did 45 minutes on the treadmill yesterday, watching ER.
I decided to watch from the very beginning now it’s all on Netflix with no ads. Everyone looks so young! Mind you so did I in 1994….half my life ago 😳

Day 4 of Beginner 30DS done yesterday ✅ rest day today but will do a treadmill walk.

Keep going @IwanttotakeyoutoaNailaBar you are doing really well; can you see and feel a difference in your shape?

If a little bit of vanity is motivating then I’m all for it @Happyhettie !
I do want to be fitter, stronger, and more flexible but not ashamed to say I want to look better too. I’m very soft around the middle again and missing the waist I was seeing before Christmas!

Done the 30 days ( started Jan 24th - sounds so long ago now we are in March).

Trying to keep it up until Easter although had a “rest day” last week and yesterday. I am flipping between 1 and 3 and using 5kg weights when I can (2kg normally). Motivation is dwindling though …

L1 D3 completed. Bit achy but feeling smug!

It is March and spring is springing and everything seems better with more sunshine / flowers!

L1 D2 completed. Feel better for it, hopefully I’ll look better for it soon too. Feel very podgy and lethargic at the moment.

Going to sound totally vain, we have staff photos and class photos in a few weeks and I don’t want to look so awful on the photos.

Oh @Saggyoldclothbody I do hope you feel properly better soon. You are over the halfway mark now!

Good to see you back @Happyhettie
It’s quite shocking how a lay off sets you back so quickly and I’m in the same boat with the weight gain.

But it’s finally March and we can only go up from here!

30 day shred L1 D1 completed. I’m back!

Hi! How’s everyone doing? I’ve been mia due to a sprained ankle but I think I’m ok to get back to it (fingers crossed!) now.
There’s loads of of posts I need to catch up on on here but sorry to hear you’ve not been great @IDareSay you’ll be counting the days til your op - it will soon get here.

I’ve put some weight back on (not loads but my jeans feel tight and I feel rubbish) so the plan is to shred / do something active every day for March even if it’s just a 1 mile walk a day. I’m so stiff too. My knees are refusing to work and I can’t sit on the floor easily anymore so I need to do something for flexibility too. Argh! Not back to square 1 but definitely nowhere near where I was before Christmas.

Day 3 of Beginner 30DS done ✅

Might do day 4 on Sunday or leave it until Monday. I’ll see what the weather does as a good long walk would be nice if it stops raining!

L2D5✅ I’m still not quite over the food poisoning last Friday and I can tell with my HR so when Jillian tells me it’s really hard and I want to be gargling my blood (or whatever she says to supposedly motivate you) I find I want to take a breather. I’ve gone back to my 1.5kg weights but I’m using the vibration board whenever I can. It’s excellent for all the plank movements (if I don’t look at what the skin on my arms is doing 😳)

Good that you’ve got a date now @IDareSayYou’ll be counting the days 📆

Day 2 of Beginner 30DS done ✅

At the end of last year after doing 2 x 30 Day Shreds and a 90 day programme I would have laughed at how easy this beginner one is but it is really kicking my butt!

A five week layoff has really affected my strength and fitness but slowly does it.

I have an op date of mid March so should just complete the first 10 days of this before I’m off games again. Slow and steady, slow and steady.

A BOGOF 😂 I hope you get that date soon 🤞

Being fit and conscientious about doing prescribed exercises has had a really good result for my friend - and I’m sure you will be the same.

I’m happy to have the absolute certainty for this op but did much the same as your friend for the first one; it was also done in the private hospital on the NHS!

So I am calling it a BOGOF 😄

Just spoke to booking team, if they can get me in for pre-op pdq I should have a date in March for the op.

If you’ve not already fully committed to the op yet, or it’s some time away, one of my friends managed to get himself offered one within a couple of months by phoning the consultant’s secretary every week, being friendly, and asking if any cancellations had come up. He had his hip op in January. Obviously it’s luck and a postcode lottery but if there’s any way to run the waiting process for both private and NHS concurrently to take advantage of any luck that’s going, it would save you eating porridge for so long 🤞

PS He was also operated on at a private hospital on the NHS after all that!

Hi @Saggyoldclothbody good suggestions and yes physio has given me some balance exercises.

Saw consultant this morning and he agrees that in protecting my arthritic left hip I have buggered up my right leg/pelvis/back, you name it, I’ve buggered it 😆
It’s improving though and I have had no adverse reaction to yesterday’s shred.

Anyway I have taken a deep breath and booked in for a private op to replace it. It’s a lot of money but the thought of a pain free summer, rather than two more years of pain and more complications, was too tempting. We shall live on porridge or something!

L2D3 completed Friday (along with 30 mins of dumbelll exercises standing on the vibration plate) but I forgot to update.

Very bad food poisoning on Friday so I’ve eased back into Jillian today with:

L2D4✅ completed today.

I’m glad you’ve got back into some exercise @IDareSay You sounded like you were hugely missing your endorphin hit whereas I have to be prised off the sofa (and then I quite enjoy the feeling of virtuousness to be able to eat chocolate 😀)

I know you were told to ensure both legs being used but did you discuss balance exercises that would help to build strength back in your weakened leg? I had an Achilles problem (with a visibly withered calf muscle) that the physio had me resolve mostly by doing variations of getting up and down on my tippy toes on either one or both of my legs, usually whilst brushing my teeth. Also, has anyone mentioned a podiatrist and gasp orthotics in case they might be contributing to the hip issue?

Day 1 of Beginner 30DS done ✅
It really is quite a gentle programme but enough of a challenge for me at the moment. If anyone has struggled with 30DS this would be a good introductory programme to get used to Jillian 🙂

No pain so far, just usual grumbling from my L hip but gosh my right thigh is so weak and wobbly! My walking is fairly stable now but clearly I have lost a lot of strength and stability in my right leg. That’s the result of 4 weeks of complete lack of use I suppose.

I am being very careful and managed to get through it with no immediate ill effects. Even half jacks were a challenge and I did very shallow squats; had to go very slowly to get into the static lunge positions but I got there.

I’ll do 10 days of this, alternate days, then onto programme 2 if all goes well. Felt very good to get back to an exercise programme.

By the way, I have mentioned this website before but it really is a good resource for reviews of online workouts. Also the writer has gone through a nasty car accident and post-cancer chemo so there is some useful stuff for those of us who have had physical and medical challenges.

https://2lazy4gym.com/

@IDareSay pleased to hear your progress!
It’s so frustrating being incapacitated. Please take the advice not to overdo it, tempting as it is to prove yourself. Marathon not a sprint, so to speak.

I missed Shred today. Feel a bit guilty. Back on it tomorrow though. Almost 4 weeks done. Can see a bit of change but need to sort the diet.

I have found Jillian’s Beginner Shred on the app. Looks like a gentler, lower impact version of the 30DS, otherwise a similar 3 x 10 day set up of 3 progressively tougher workouts.

I’m starting on Monday all being well, but will only work out on alternate days. Fingers crossed this gets me back in the groove.

Hoorah! I am allowed to exercise again (within limits).

I must only exercise on alternate days (to build in more recovery) and if after three reps of any exercise I get pain then I must stop, but ‘discomfort’ is ok (had a long discussion about this as I have a high pain threshold!)

Crucial thing is to remain balanced, so ensuring both sides of my body are in alignment and bearing the same weight. This makes sense to me as I know I have been favouring one side due to pain on other side.

Unfortunately I have not been able to continue with my usual painkillers for my arthritis but GP has prescribed different ones which so far seem to be ok. It may take a few days for me to see if they do take the edge off the pain. The fact is the only thing that will fix me is replacing that knackered hip, so I have bitten the bullet and booked a private appointment with my surgeon.

I managed a short walk yesterday and I’ll do a couple more this weekend to be certain I am no longer wobbly and then back to some sort of Jillian on Monday. Just about to browse the app for suitable stuff; not up to 30DS quite yet!