I also have a wider repertoire of moves to bust when I do get to the gym. Though they never require anything more than 3kg dumbbells, you use your own body weight to do press-ups and other lifts and jumps, lunges and squats until your muscles are crying both during and the day after the workout. I am now at a stage where I alternate between level 1 and level 2 every other workout. It’s simply made me fitter because of the consistency it’s given me. I still hit the gym about twice a week but I can lift heavier and do faster cardio. I have honestly never felt fitter or stronger (or better in my jeans). It’s now August and I have been ‘doing Jillian’ as I now call it, for seven months. ‘You want a 20 minute workout, you’re gonna have to earn it.’ So I did it and did it. And because of the outstanding difficulty level I always felt I had really worked out: ‘This is not your mother’s workout!’ Michaels says in the midst of the action. Now there are few mornings when I don’t have 20 minutes so I manage to workout about 4-5 times a week. But because of it’s length, Jillian’s DVD got me exercising on days when I thought I didn’t have time to exercise because I didn’t have an hour and 15 minutes to get to the gym (factoring in for getting there). When I had no time, I didn’t do anything. In the past I used to manage the gym a couple of times a week when I had time. The thing about this DVD is that it has given me constistency. The last part of each circuit is a minute of abs such as side bridges, knee lifts and plenty of old-fashioned sit-ups, Rocky style. Doing them made me discover swear words that I didn’t even know were in my vocabulary. Most of this is old school boot camp stuff:- high knees, jump ropes, burpees and other spawn of the devil. Each circuit consists of three minutes of resistance moves (two sets of different moves done for 30 seconds each and then repeated) followed by two minutes of high impact cardio. There are three circuits in each workout. Michaels uses an unusual 3-2-1 interval technique that I had never come across before. Despite being short, each workout left me covered in sweat. So although they really are painful (I thought I was fit but could barely do level one), they’re over quickly. There are three levels of workouts, each of which is about 25 minutes long. There was no driving of faffing to get to classes and I could literally roll out of bed with rubbish hair and night-dribble on my face and get training.I tried out Gillian’s wares. However, by the end of my challenge, I was well and truly hooked on home workouts and was almost ready to give up my gym membership. With that body, it’s obvious Michaels’ walks her talk The sleeve said it had been launched in 2009 so it make the cut for the challenge as it wasn’t new enough. I also bought one called Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred a DVD offering from the famous celeb trainer of US The Biggest Loser fame. I did a different one for each of the 12 days of Christmas and reported honestly on what I thought of them the next day. I went to HMV and bought fitness DVDs launched literally that day or thereabouts. As a rather committed fitness enthusiast, I wanted to try all the new offerings as they launched and report honest feedback to all you lovely readers so you were armed with that before shelling out the cash (they’re expensive compared to the freebies on YouTube). On Boxing Day last year I started a challenge for reasons better known to myself called 12 days of Christmas, 12 workout DVDs for. When Anna Magee tried Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred fitness DVD she was instantly hooked – despite having tried just about every new fitness DVD for 2014.
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