What? Jillian Michaels 30 day Shred
Where? Coming to a sitting room near you!
When? Anytime
Baby its cold outside! The recent weather isn't exactly inviting to go outside, the fire and couch is, however, very inviting. Alas, party season is crouching, just before it pounces on us! Yikes, no time to sit back with mince pies and brandy butter just yet...
Recently my sister Ettie came home for a weeks holiday. I was so impressed when I saw her, she looked so trim and toned and paid full credit to Jillian Michaels 30 day Shred dvd. Ettie works for Unicef in Somalia and has a seriously restricted lifestyle over there. She is under curfew, meaning she has to stay indoors from 7pm onwards and cannot go anywhere alone, she lives in a compound with other Unicefers. Basically, she's amazing and works seriously hard. Aswell as her activities being seriously limited, her fresh healthy food choices are aswell. Overall, she has far more excuses than anyone I know for kickin' back in the evenings but instead she switches on Jillian and kicks butt Ettie style!
So I got the dvd and wasn't at all intimidated by the cover which has Jillian furrowing her dark eyebrows at you, from a background of swirling red flames (hell??) I got it from Amazon and it cost about a tenner including delivery. There are 3 levels on it, each one a progression of the one before it and you can chose which buff girl to follow through the circuits, one does the easier version, the other does the regular one. Its so simple but so effective, ouch! I loved it, the 3-2-1 system means you do 3 minutes of strength training, 2 minutes of cardio and 1 minute of abs. Jillian talks the whole way through it which was kind of helpful, kind of scary, like Ajai Chopra of the fitness world. But there is an option to just do the workout with music, I think its best to do it a few times with Jillians tips and advice, then go it alone when you're confident that you're form is ok.
This is a great dvd, the workouts are only 20 minutes so if you're under pressure for time its perfect. The moves are easy to follow and you'll know exactly which muscles you've worked the next day! Because its only 20 minutes its a great workout to begin with, and you can add in other activites as you get fitter.
Til next time, stay cool (but wrap up well going out in this weather!)
Raedi
