May Jillian be with us - it's the new Shred thread!

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For all those doing any of Jillian Michaels' exercise programmes, welcome - the old thread is here if you want to check back.

Marking place for tomorrow which will be week 6 of Body Rev for me - nearly half way through!

Oh, I love crazy diets (reading them, not necessarily following them): I'm a sucker for a programme, so that sounds like it could be for me after I'm done with shredding for the time being.

Injured elbows sounds a bit grim, MsRaspberry: it's hard to rest an elbow. How did you do it?

Ninety days? That long? Does it start off at a beginner level? Is it expensive?

I don't know what I did to my elbows. I'm presuming it's linked to the one week shred and having a typing job. I suddenly started getting these very sharp pains in my elbows. It went away after not exercising for a few days. It was agony though!

Body Rev phase 2 week 8 workout 7 done. Yesterday was a washout - I'd been to the theatre on Wednesday evening and didn't get to bed till after midnight, so couldn't drag myself out of bed yesterday morning to exercise. Back on it today, and I did it better than on Monday: I got through the plank circuit more or less without stopping, including two full sets of the evil crow pushups. Just need to find time at the weekend to do workout 8 once more and then I've finished phase 2.

MsRaspberry, Body Rev is expensive new, but I bought mine on Ebay for 40 (sorry - no pound sign on my keyboard for some reason ) and it does come up on there from time to time. For the money you get 15 workouts - twelve strength and three cardio. The strength workouts are divided into "front of body" and "back of body" and come in pairs - so for the first couple of weeks you do workout 1, workout 2, cardio and repeat. (I'm cheating - you're meant to work out six days a week, but I do five and skip the second cardio.) Then in weeks 3 and 4 you move on to workouts 3 and 4, but stick with the phase 1 cardio. It does start at a beginner level, so if you're already fit phase 1 is actually fairly easy (except the cardio, which I hate, but that's just me - I understand there are people out there who enjoy cardio!). Phase 2 is much tougher: workout 7 is the pits. I'm a bit worried about phase 3!

I haven't even looked at the diet, although I have got a copy of it somewhere, so no advice on that.

Hope your elbows get better soon - I had tennis elbow for a while and it really hurt, and was nigh on impossible to rest.

Thanks for the description! I might look into it in a few months.

I suspect mine was tennis elbow too, from trying to Google when it was sore. It was very sudden and sharp and hurt to have anything touching it.

I'm back on the exercise in the morning though. No idea which to attempt. I may try Hard Body again, as that one was quite fun.

Can I join please?
Weighing in at a bit heavier than Id like and would like to be toned a bit more for my holiday; also would like to be a bit stronger all round but especially my core.

Currently trying to decide between RI30 or Shred. I briefly played at Shred last year but found L1 quite easy... So felt a bit demotivated!

Welcome TQBD, the exercises are brilliant for toning if you stick with them and your core strength will definitely improve. I've not done RI30 but enjoyed 30DS. Maybe try going in at Level 2 this time?

I wonder can anyone tell me how many times a week Jillian recommends you should do 6 Week 6 Pack? I've done it once from You Tube so her "pep talk" at the beginning is missing. I usually use the You Tube clips for a few weeks before deciding whether or not to invest in the DVD.

I'm currently doing NMTZ and BFBM, with a bit of cross-training thrown in. I'd like to add 6W6P to the mix too, just want to make sure I'm doing it on a regular enough basis to make a difference. Thanks all.

I just googled 6w6p and it just says do l1 for 3 weeks. Id guess at 4/5 times a week min?

I'm going to start 30DS either this evening or tomorrow depending how this evening pans out and try L1, if it's 'easy' I might try a mix of L1 and l2 for the 1st week..

Ah thanks TQBD, I will re-jig my exercise schedule to try and fit that in. Would be lovely to have some abs after 4 DC's

Good luck with 30DS, let us know how it goes.

6wk6pk is great, but it was NMTZ's three ab circuits that really toned up that area for me. Plus all the ans stuff in BFBM!

Body Rev phase 2 week 8 workout 8 done. Phase 2 is finished! but being tidy-minded I think I won't start phase 3 till after half term is over - I can't cope if a Jillian week starts in the middle of a normal week, and we're going away for a couple of days so no Body Rev for me tomorrow or Tuesday. So I'll probably do workouts 7 and 8 once more each and think whether or not to brave the cardio again.

30DS L2 day 1. I can't do skaters at all, am jumping around like a loon! Also the oblique jump thing where you jump and twist, and the squats where you step forward and back! I'm not coordinated enough

So; I think I'm coming down with a virus as all I want to do is sleep and nap; but managed to force myself to do at least a bit of 6w6p.
Wow. I was feeling the warm up let alone the workout.. Managed 10min of the L1 work out before I felt like I was suffocating from the virus but feel pleased I actually did something despite feeling crappy.
Wow though; it's hard.

Body Rev phase 2 bonus week workout 7 done. Ow. Ths is not a good workout day. I managed L1 of Yoga Meltdown once while we were away, which is better than nothing, I suppose. Might do L2 instead of the Body Rev cardio - will see how I feel on Friday.

Welcome, anyoldname! Glad to have someone else doing Body Rev. Peonies, it gets better - I was flailing madly all over the place the first few times I did L2 of the Shred, but I can do it in quite a co-ordinated way now.

TQBD, hope you feel better soon.

Poor little DS managed to drop one of my 4kg weights on his foot last night - he's been told over and over again not to fiddle with my weights, so in some ways it may have been a useful lesson, but I wish it hadn't been one of the heaviest ones. Fortunately it was fixable with a cold compress and a cuddle.

Extra run done on Monday to record peak flow, and back to L1 on Shred yesterday. I'm doing the jumping jacks and the boxing with weights this time round, but I still can't do more than a couple of full push ups. Most of the rest of it I'm with Natalie not Anita though.

We'll see how long before I get bored and want to switch to another midweek workout...

Body Rev phase 2 bonus week workout 8 done. Not too bad, though I managed to tie myself up in the cable! And I'm going to cycle today so I think that counts as the week's cardio - I'll do Yoga Meltdown L2 tomorrow morning, then on to Phase 3 next week (eek).

Have been on holiday so no Jillian since Sunday! I did do a 35 min circuits class with my step dad on Monday but other than that no exercise while I was staying with parents. Back to 30DS L2 day 2 today.

6W6P done - does anyone else find it hard to keep their belly button pulled in when doing stomach exercises or is it just me?

Yoga Meltdown L2 done. Ow. Body Rev is great but it doesn't do anything for the flexibility - I really felt this.

TheBeagleHasLanded, I find it difficult too - I did a lot of Pilates when I was younger and I find it easier to think about keeping a neutral spine and pulling in the small muscles in the lower abs so that the big six-pack muscles don't "pop" when I'm doing the exercises. If I think of it in terms of pulling the belly button in it seems to activate the wrong muscles, though that may just be me being thick.

Hi Everyone, love this thread! I see a PT weekly (have done for nearly 2 years now), and he despairs of my exercise shirking in between sessions, so I thought I might try the 30DS (did it years ago but never got past L2). I've done 5 days of L1 and felt ready to move on. OMG L2!! I've had to use my lowest weights (1.5kg) and have done 3 days. Went to my PT session today and it was much more doable, yay! I asked his advice about whether it would be better on this kind of programme to use lower weights but complete the session, or higher weights to muscle failure, and he reckons better to stay low, get the whole circuit done, but as soon as it becomes doable, up the weights. I may try 3kgs on my next session (I use a mixture of 4, 5 and 8 kg weights and kettle bell at my PT sessions, so 1.5kg seems like a bit of a cop out to me, but it's SO HARD!!!).

I'm really looking forward to graduating to L3 this time...

Feeling unmotivated today so thought if I wrote here that I need to step away from the keyboard and get on and do NMTZ NOW instead of endlessly reading MN I might actually do it. Off to get into my exercise gear now, will report in when it's done.

Done, phew. I feel exhausted but glad I did it.

Started NMTZ tonight. I like it. I don't think I'll find time for that one as regularly as the rest though as it comes in at about 55mins all in.

Anyone got any NMTZ tips? How often etc?

I also struggle with the whole sucking belly button in - would help if I could feel it when doing the exercises!

thebeagle for you - I was also sneakily planning to slack today but you inspired me to force myself into my sweaty as forgot to wash them gym clothes, so it's 30DS L2 Day 3 today. It already made a bit more sense, though the pendulum lunges are still a mess.

right back at ya Peonies

Trenzalor NMTZ is probably my favorite, despite my lack of motivation at the moment. I'm not a fan of cardio at all and NMTZ gives me a really good full body strength workout. I do it twice a week, along with 6W6P and up until yesterday BFBM. But I hate that one so much I'm changing that to Shred it with Weights. So essentially I do three DVD's, each done twice a week in rotation, with one day rest per week.