12/3/2023 0 Comments 30 day shred week 1It wrecked the flow of the work out and I can see people getting injured attempting some of these or just doing them wrong and not getting the intended benefit from them. There were some repeats of the ones from the 30 Day Shred, but in this one Jillian tries to add awkward move combinations together in many of the exercises and I found that I would have to stop and watch the screen a lot, trying to figure out what the heck I need to do. What was disappointing though is that I didn’t like a lot of the actual exercises. And Jillian does keep reminding you “its just for a week” and “you can do anything for a week”, so I stuck with it. I did pay for it (I hate buying something and not using it) and I knew I wouldn’t get an opportunity to do it again because there is no way I’d find the time and energy to attempt this in my normal life. I did it in the evening with the plan of doing the programs back-to-back, but I ended up choosing sleep over cardio in the end. I was tempted to just throw in the towel after Day 3 – in fact, I only did the strength workout on Day 4 because I had a bad night’s sleep and just did not have the energy to do it in the morning. Even though I had the time, I wasn’t on vacation so I still resented the extra time required getting changed into and out of workout gear twice, the two showers, two post-work out recoveries etc more than I anticipated. Its a major pain to have to do two separate workouts. Jillian uses 3lbs weights but I used 3kg (about 6.6lbs), which worked for me. The only equipment you need is a couple hand weights. The cardio workout is broken down into three rotations (also done twice) and a cool down. The strength workout is broken down into a warm up, fours rotations (each done twice) and a cool down. According to Jillian, she separates the workouts to get “double the calorie after-burn”. You have to do two 30 minute workouts a day – a strength workout in the morning and a cardio workout in the evening. The One Week Shred is supposed to be a “crash” workout program to get you into shape in just one week before a special event, like a wedding or vacation, where you want to look good. And since I was going to be away for seven days, wanted to keep working out, enjoyed the 30 Day Shred and would have the time to do it, I thought, why not? But I did try and stay mindful of my food choices because I do want to lose a couple more dress sizes from where I am. However, this requires following her eating plan and not only do I refuse to diet, even if I wanted to I couldn’t because I was in a hotel with limited cooking ability. I didn’t have an event I needed to be “shredded” for coming up in a week, but I was curious to see what effect this program would have, especially since Jillian claims that you can lose up to seven pounds over the course of the seven days. I was originally inspired to do the 30 Day Shred after reading Nurse Love’s Farmer’s post about it and I remembered that she also did a post about doing J illian Michael’s One Week Shred. It was soon after I finished doing the 30 Day Shred again and I wanted to keep my work out habit going and build on the momentum of my success with it. I recently went away for a week sans kids and husband.
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