30-day Shred - class of June 2014

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Bustle I found I got better at the jumping knee things after a few days but I have to really focus when I'm doing them or I lose my balance.

Anya I'm not loving level 2 at all, I find most of the ab moves really difficult and hate that there are plank jacks, mountain climbers and squat thrusts so close together. Oh and I'm not keen on the crow push-ups or the ab hold-tabletop. Apart from that it's just peachy . I'm sure that your jeans will button up very soon.

Eeek - not looking forward to L2 in that case, BetterWithCheese. I can't do squat thrusts, and I can feel all the spare flab on my bum wobbling in a really off-putting way when I do plank jacks. I can in theory do mountain climbers but more often than not I get tangled up in my own feet (I am seriously uncoordinated). I might spend two weeks on L1, refining my push-up technique.

Sorry I do keep going on about my jean button

I can cope with those moves as once you've done that bit its over a donewith. I hated level 2 of 30DS so RI ddoesn't seem that bad.

Dd is 19 months but still have a small separation in my abdo muscles 1-2cm. Just had a thought that Hope this will make it better not worse!

What is RI?

Just done 30DS-L1-D2 (and a few plank exercises for good measure)

Think I'll definitely feel it tomorrow!

If you still have separation don't so a full crunch - that will make it worse (speaking from very bitter experience). Get in normal crunch position but only lift your head a couple of inches. This only works the transverse muscle which is the one you need to bring the separation closed. Does that make sense? The exercise in level one where she gets you to stick your legs in the air and roll so your bum comes off the floor - that one will also help with the separation as it also works the transverse. Do not fgs do the bicycle crunches as they will just send your poor separated muscles to opposite poles leaving a huge gaping hole in the middle!! If you do loads of the ones that work your transverse ABs, do pelvic tilts and that one where you sit and imagine your tummy had a zip and zip it up from the bottom to jus above your belly button the separation will close (again, voice of experience) and then you will be able to move onto toning ABs normally.

RI is Ripped in 30. Its another DVD

Thanks!! great info. only 1 query How will I know which one are the bicycle crunches- is that what she calls them?

Yes she calls them bicycle crunches and they are the last ab circuit on level one.

ddas my separation has improved massively. As well as what Shadows said also try to make sure when doing any of the abdominal moves that you pull your belly button towards your spine. You want your stomach to hollow in, never to round out. Exhaling during the moves also helps this.

RI30 L1D3 done. I can now, just, do two full sets of proper press-ups, though I'm not getting very low on the second set.

Sympathy about your jeans, Anya. I still have a disgusting lump of fat on my stomach. I suspect, reading the posts above, that it's because I'm not pulling my abs in enough when I do the floor exercises and the muscles are popping out and pushing the wodge of fat outwards with them.

Day 2 done, I seem to find exercising works better for me first thing, DP goes to work at 6am so I just have to make myself get up when he goes and get it over and done with before work.
Was expecting a lot of aching this morning but I'm ok so, far that will probably hit tomorrow.....

I did a 30 min cardio routine from ole JM's body revolution. It was pretty good but tomorrow I will choose the harder level. Man she has gotten me pretty fit. I'dkickjillian'sass what's your advice on upping cardio to 3 times a week and a Shred/ripped style thing twice a week just to get the old chub burning and all?

The other thing you can do if you have separated tummy muscles is to use a soft scarf or similar to hold the muscles together. So pull them in wrap scarf round and tie in place. This means that when you do an exercise that's straining the muscles and pushing them apart, the scarf holds them together and your less likely to have the separation get worse. I went mad doing crunches etc after DD was 6 months and still remember the horror of seeing my tummy getting bigger by the day. A few weeks in I looked 6 months pregnant again and it took a long time to get them back to a small separation. If I remember correctly 1 finger space between them is considered normal and at that point your ok to do crunches. But I think it's always good to keep up the zip exercise and the transverse ones as I think things can slip back quite easily.

After reading your post have dug out the postnatal leaflet the physio gave me to remind myself of the pelvic tilts etc

Thanks!

That's exactly why I looked at the 30 day ab challenge in horror as could tell my poor muscles wouldn't have coped!

So unintentional rest day today. Trip to nurse for DS1's vaccines and DS2 didn't nap. Ugh. Disaster day. I'll cycle to work today though, to slightly make up for it.

Hello. I'm new and D1 L1 yesterday after months of procrastinating about it (being scared). It was hard and my legs felt wobbly afterwards, but today I feel really tired but my muscles only feel a bit achey. My wriats and ankles hurt most for some reason. Do you think the pain is really going to hit me tomorrow?

Hi hanbee, I found the first 3 days the worse. But I took a day off and after that was fine.

Didn't do much of ripped today. Twisted my knee during the warm up.

Yadah For dat burning cardio/HIIT is the best, A 3-2 ratio of cardio and shredding sounds perfect

Fat burning not dat burning! I havent gone all street

40DS L1-D3 - done and some more plank exercises too.

30ds L1 D2 done with some modified abs thanks to the tips here :)

RI30 L1D4. I've more or less go the hang of the moves now, but still hate that thing where you vibrate from foot to foot. Had an embarrassing collapse at the end of the second set of press-ups too!

How long did other people do on each level of RI30? I'm aiming for ten days, but the DVD seems to suggest moving on at the beginning of each week, so only 5 or 6. I'm also thinking I may be disloyal to the mighty JM at weekends and do my Darcey Bussell Pilates DVD then.

Day 3 done this morning, legs and arms feel tired but still waiting for the aches, ok so far....