Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred

Great workout with appropriate progressive levels. Variety of exercises is motivating an having persons with beginner skills and advance skills on screen at same time helps with adjusting to personal levels of involvement.

Only disappointment with DVD is being unable to fast forward beyond disclaimers and introductory information. Having listened/watched the 1st, 2nd, 3rd time, viewer shouldl be able to go to menu, fast forward, skip all intrductory materials and get straight to workout.

Jillian takes you through 30 days of high powered, no nonsense workouts. Each session is approximately 20 minutes and you will feel the fruit of your labor the next day, believe me!! If you can commit to 30 days, you will see results. Be prepared to work hard and remember, no complaining allowed!!

I use the 30 Day Shred DVD when I either don't have time to do a full workout, or if I can't get to the gym. I think it is a very effective workout. There are 3 Levels to the DVD and each one is about 18 mins of actual exercise, with a brief warm up and cool down peroid. I only did level 1 once, because it is not as intense as levels 2 and 3. The DVD is great beacuse it incorporates strenghth moves that are familiar with cardio that gets your heart pumping in new and different ways.
For beginners, or those unfamiliar with typical weightlifting moves, I reccommend you watch the DVD first to get a good idea of the different moves and the proper form. Overall it is a great addition to my collection, and to my workout routine!

This DVD workout is great motivation to get fit. The workouts are effective and even fun to do.

This is a tough workout! However, it involves a lot of jumping and running type moves. If you have problems with your knees or legs you might want to use another workout tape which is calmer and work up to this one. If not, you might become frustrated and quit. Even the moves of the one person on the tape doing low impact is still high impact for some people if you are just beginning to try and lose weight. There is no time in between to get set to do the next thing if you don't workout a ton and are just getting into it. Jillian's workout is definately a high intensity work-out!